Japan: attractions and places of interest

The largest TV tower in the world is the Tokyo Skytree tower. This is the second of the highest structures on the entire planet - a height of 634 meters. Her creation was thought out to the smallest detail. In Japanese, these figures exactly correspond to the sound of the area where Tokyo is now loc...

In central Japan there is an amazing city called Nara. The city has many palaces, museums, parks, temples, many of which were built at the time when the capital of Japan was located here. Naru was built on the model of Chanan, then the capital of the Chinese state. Here the foundation of the Japane...

In Japan, near the city of Takehara, is the island of Okunoshima, better known as the "Island of Rabbits" due to the large number of rabbits. They are not afraid of anything and several times exceed the number of people living in the island. In Okunoshima, life flowed calmly for a long time until t...

In the Japanese resort of Tomamu, which is located on the island of Hokkaido, you can see a stunning natural phenomenon called the Unkai. Unkai is being translated from Japanese as a sea of clouds. All this thanks to the thermal springs of the valley, which form a huge fog overnight. A terrace call...

Glover Garden – is a wonderful park in Japan, which was founded by Scottish entrepreneur Thomas Glover. The park area is located in Nagasaki and is a magnificent open-air museum. The museum exhibits chic mansions of Europeans who inhabited this area in the second half of the 19th century. Glover’s h...

The island of Hashima, which is located near Nagasaki in Japan, is now a completely deserted area, but once it was full of life. If we translate the name of the island of Hashima into Russian, we get « Border Island ». The entire territory of this area is framed by concrete walls, which makes the i...

Nagoya Castle is located in the center of a city with a population of more than 2 million people. It was built in 1612 as the main residence of the Tokugawa shoguns. At first, the object had the significance of the main political and administrative center of the Principality of Owari. During the Sec...

Mount Kōya – is a famous mountain of Japan, which is located in Wakayama Prefecture. The mountain is famous for the fact that temple buildings are located here, as well as numerous monasteries that are directly related to Buddhism. The very first temple that appeared on the Koya-san mountain is the...

The Yonaguni Monument – is a huge entity that was found in the underwater world near Yonaguni Island, which is Japan's most extreme territory. Among all the monuments of this state, the Yonaguni monument is the most mysterious. This area was found in 1987 by local divers who monitored the life of p...

Biei – is an amazing blue pond located among Hokkaido Island in Japan. It is a very small pond, but very interesting for both tourists and the local population. Biai is located at Tokachi Mountain itself on the banks of a river called Bieigoa. The pond is really not simple, and its name sounds like...