Miyazaki Prefecture’s most prominent natural feature are these neat parallel rows or grooves of pockmarked, platform rock nicknamed the “Devil’s…

An ordinary-looking forest in Japan (upper right photo). Nothing spooky about it right? Right. It’s only Aokigahara Forest, a beautiful…

Korakuen is one of the Big Three Famous Japanese Gardens (Nihon Sanmeien 日本三名園). The other two are Kairakuen in Mito,…

Near the coastal city of Shunan, there’s a small island called Ozushima (大津島) in the Seto Inland Sea. During the…

Huge outdoor park on an archaeological site where ruins from the Yayoi Period were discovered and excavated since the mid-1980s.…

If you want to avoid tourist crowds, the San’in Region (Tottori, Shimane, Yamaguchi Prefectures) facing the Sea of Japan is…

Northern Culture Center (Hoppo Bunka Hakubutsukan) is a former Japanese farmhouse built in 1887 and converted into a local museum.…