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千葉県 · Tourism

Katsuura Hina

勝浦市外房

One thousand eight hundred hina dolls on the sixty stone steps of Tomisaki Jinja.

千葉県 · Tourism

Sawara

香取市北総

Merchant houses along the Ono river. The town where Ino Tadataka learned to survey.

千葉県 · Tourism

Mother Farm

富津市上総

A hillside on Mount Kanozan, known for its rapeseed flowers and its sheep show.

千葉県 · Tourism

Tainoura

鴨川市外房

Shoals of red sea bream gather near the surface, bound up with the legend of Nichiren's birth.

千葉県 · Tourism

Choshi Port

銚子市北総

Among the top ports in Japan for landings. It carried the town alongside soy sauce.

千葉県 · Tourism

Yoro Valley

大多喜町上総

The largest gorge in Boso. The Awamata falls slide down a gentle rock face.

千葉県 · Tourism

Kujukuri Beach

山武市ほか外房

Sixty kilometres of sand. A shore of beach seines and sardine fishing.

千葉県 · Tourism

Okinoshima

館山市南房総

An uninhabited island joined to the land when the Great Kanto Earthquake lifted the ground.

千葉県 · Tourism

Isumi Railway

大多喜町ほか上総

Single tracks running through fields of rape flowers. Wooden station buildings survive.

千葉県 · Tourism

Hota Banya

鋸南町南房総

A canteen run by the fishing co-operative. What came ashore that day is what is served.

東京都 · Tourism

Kanda Matsuri

千代田区都心

One of the three great festivals of Japan. It was a tenka matsuri, allowed to enter the grounds of Edo Castle.

東京都 · Tourism

Nakamise

台東区城東

One of the oldest shopping streets in Japan, lined with shops since the Edo period.

東京都 · Tourism

Ogasawara

小笠原村島しょ

Islands inscribed as World Natural Heritage. They belong to Tokyo, yet lie about 1,000 kilometres from the mainland.

東京都 · Tourism

Sanja Matsuri

台東区城東

Asakusa in May. Three great portable shrines cross the town.

東京都 · Tourism

Shinjuku Gyoen

新宿区都心

A Japanese garden, a formal garden and a landscape garden share one site. It was once a daimyo residence.

東京都 · Tourism

Rikugien

文京区都心

A stroll garden that reproduces places celebrated in waka poetry. Made by Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu.

東京都 · Tourism

Hamarikyu

中央区都心

A tidal pond fed with seawater. The view changes with the tide.

東京都 · Tourism

Edo-Tokyo Museum

墨田区城東

It reproduces Nihonbashi at full size. Note: closed long-term for renovation.

東京都 · Tourism

Kabukiza

中央区都心

The home of kabuki. A single-act seat costs only around a thousand yen.

東京都 · Tourism

Toyosu Market

江東区城東

The wholesale market moved here from Tsukiji. The tuna auction can be viewed.

東京都 · Tourism

Tsukiji Outer Market

中央区都心

The wholesale market moved away, but the outer shopping street stayed exactly where it was.

東京都 · Tourism

Yanesen

文京区都心

Lanes and row houses that escaped the war. The shopping street runs down from Yuyake Dandan.

東京都 · Tourism

Tokyo Skytree

墨田区城東

Six hundred and thirty-four metres tall. The idea of the central pillar of a five-storey pagoda was applied to its damping system.

東京都 · Tourism

Koishikawa Korakuen

文京区都心

The garden of the Mito Tokugawa. Much of its design reproduces celebrated places in China.