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Fushimi Inari Taisha
Fushimi Inari Taisha's torii-lined paths climb Mount Inari from the main shrine complex. Fox figures and smaller shrines mark the route through the wooded slopes.
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Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium
Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium presents the region's marine life, with whale sharks moving through its huge Kuroshio Sea tank. It sits within Ocean Expo Park on Motobu Peninsula.
Kobe & HyōgoPreview
Himeji Castle
Follow Himeji Castle’s winding defences towards its white-walled wooden keep, where the architecture is as compelling from within as from the city below.
OsakaPreview
Osaka Aquarium KAIYUKAN
Follow KAIYUKAN’s route through Pacific habitats, comparing the scale of its central ocean tank with the animals and environments around it.
KyushuPreview
Canal City Hakata
Browse Canal City Hakata’s curved shopping terraces, pause beside the water and build a meal or fountain performance into the visit.
Tokyo & KantōPreviewReservation Required
teamLab Planets TOKYO DMM
Step into teamLab Planets’ water, light and reflective environments in Toyosu, where your movement becomes part of the changing artwork.
Tokyo & KantōPreview
Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden
Move between Shinjuku Gyoen’s open lawns, formal garden and pond-side paths, with greenhouse collections and historic buildings adding variety to the walk.
Tokyo & KantōPreview
Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse
Walk around Yokohama’s brick port warehouses, then explore the shops, food and cultural spaces adapted within their historic industrial shells.
KyushuPreview
Dazaifu Tenmangū
Visit Dazaifu Tenmangū for its wooded shrine grounds, plum-tree traditions and enduring connection with learning, poetry and the arts.
Fuji & HakonePreview
Oshino Hakkai
Explore Oshino Hakkai’s spring ponds for clear water, village paths and a connection with the wider landscape of Mount Fuji pilgrimage.
KyotoPreview
Nijō Castle
Explore Nijō Castle’s palace rooms and gardens, looking at how paintings, carved details and the order of spaces expressed shogunal power.
OsakaPreview
Tsūtenkaku
Look out over Shinsekai from Tsūtenkaku, then return to the streets to see how the tower anchors Osaka’s lively retro entertainment district.
OsakaPreview
Umeda Sky Building
Take Umeda Sky Building’s architectural route to the Kuchu Teien Observatory, then compare Osaka’s cityscape from indoors and the open rooftop.
Tokyo & KantōPreview
Roppongi Hills
Explore Roppongi Hills at street level, then choose an exhibition, a meal or Tokyo City View to give the visit a more focused destination.
Nagoya & Central JapanPreview
Kenroku-en
Walk Kenroku-en’s pond-side paths and bridges, comparing open views with quieter garden scenes shaped by generations of Kanazawa’s Maeda rulers.
Tokyo & KantōPreview
Ueno Park
Link Ueno’s museums with a walk through the park’s historic sites and down towards Shinobazu Pond, choosing a few stops rather than rushing every institution.
Nagoya & Central JapanPreview
Matsumoto Castle
Explore Matsumoto Castle’s timber keep and moat-side setting, looking for the contrast between defensive spaces and the more open moon-viewing wing.
Tokyo & KantōPreview
Yokohama Landmark Tower
Explore Landmark Tower’s shopping and dockyard setting in Minato Mirai; its Sky Garden observation floor is currently closed for refurbishment.
Tokyo & KantōPreviewReservation Required
teamLab Borderless: MORI Building DIGITAL ART MUSEUM
Follow moving light through a museum whose artworks cross rooms and change the route you thought you knew.
Tokyo & KantōPreview
National Museum of Nature and Science
Trace Japan's natural history, then widen the view to evolution, the planet and the development of technology.
Tokyo & KantōPreviewReservation Required
SHIBUYA SKY
See Shibuya's crossings and railways spread into the city from an indoor gallery and weather-dependent rooftop.
Tokyo & KantōPreview
Yoyogi Park
Leave the shopping streets for open lawns, tree-lined paths and a slower stretch of Harajuku's neighborhood.
Nagoya & Central JapanPreview
Zenkō-ji
Follow Nagano's pilgrimage approach to a temple whose most important image is deliberately kept from view.
Tokyo & KantōPreview
Kanda Myojin Shrine
Find an active neighborhood shrine where Edo traditions and Akihabara's contemporary culture share the grounds.