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Karatsu Kunchi Festival is one of the most famous autumn festivals in Japan. It is a traditional festival that has a history of over 400 years, held annually from November 2 to 4 in Karatsu City, Saga Prefecture. The highlight of Karatsu...

What did people’s life look like before Japan’s recorded history? Among the several ruins of the Yayoi period in Japan, circa 500 BC - 300 AD when rice cultivation and metal tools began shaping early Japanese society, Yoshinogari Ruins i...

Yūtoku Inari Shrine is a stunning Shinto shrine located in Kashima City, Saga Prefecture. It is one of Japan’s three major Inari shrines, alongside Fushimi Inari Taisha in Kyoto and Kasama Inari Shrine in Ibaraki. Founded in 1688, the sh...

Miyajidake Shrine is a revered Shinto shrine located in Fukuoka Prefecture, famous for its massive shimenawa, sacred straw rope, which symbolizes purification and protection from evil spirits. It is 13.5 meters long, weighs 5 tons, and i...

This historic arch bridge is not yet registered as a world heritage but attracts many tourists throughout a year. Because of the width of the river the bridge consists of five arches. This is a wooden bridge named “Kintaikyo”, originally...

Hikone Castle has “Tenshu”, a tower building within the castle, that has been existing since it was built more than 400 years ago. Throughout Japan there are 12 castles that have existing “Tenshu” since they were originally built and onl...

There are 12,000 shrines that have names with “Tenmangu” or “Tenjin”, and this Kitano Tenmangu in Kyoto sits at the top of the 12,000. All of them enshrine a historical figure, Sugawara, Michizane who was a scholar, a poet and a major va...

Fushimi is now a ward of Kyoto City but it used to be another city adjacent to the old Capital. It had been developed as a port town with easy access from both Kyoto and Osaka. Fushimi Castle was the residence of a famous Samurai Lord wh...

Nishiki Market in Kyoto has been being called as “Kyoto’s Kitchen”. It has been for approximately 400 years but the original market was founded here about 1300 years ago as a place to trade fish. Now they sell not only fish but other fre...

Ryoanji is a famous Zen temple in Kyoto for its Rock Garden. The garden has no trees, no flowers, no paths, no creeks, no ponds…. All it has are waves of white pebbles and small 15 rocks on mossy soils. It looks like a miniature 15 islan...

400 - 500 years ago, there used to be more than 20,000 castles throughout Japan, of which only 235 are registered as remaining castles now, of which only 12 has tall buildings called “Tenshu” in its original shape, of which only 5 are de...