Shrines, museums, parks, and the spots in between, with the access details worked out.
Kawasaki's largest green space, blending woodland and wetland with museums, a planetarium, indigo dyeing, and seasonal cherry blossom, irises, and autumn foliage.
Kawasaki · KanagawaA prominent Shingon Buddhist temple renowned for its spiritual power to dispel misfortune and grant various blessings to visitors.
Kawasaki · KanagawaThis museum celebrates Fujiko·F·Fujio, creator of Doraemon, displaying his original works, workspace, and interactive exhibits for manga fans.
Kawasaki · KanagawaA Tendai temple in the Kawasaki hills, known as the "azalea temple" for the 2,000 shrubs that colour its slopes each spring, and for its healing prayers.
Kawasaki · KanagawaA small, charming Inari shrine in Kawasaki, guarded by 108 stone foxes and ringed with Fuji lava – a postwar branch of Kyoto's Fushimi Inari.
Kawasaki · KanagawaA classical Chinese garden tucked behind Kawasaki Daishi, gifted by the city of Shenyang, with seasonal pavilions and free admission.
Kawasaki · KanagawaA thousand-year-old shrine in central Kawasaki dedicated to victory and harmony, and home to the Kawasaki Sanno Festival.
Kawasaki · KanagawaA forest park in central Kawasaki where a rare ancient oak wood, a working rice paddy, and a buried Yayoi settlement sit on top of one another.
Kawasaki · KanagawaKawasaki Keiba is one of Tokyo's most beginner-friendly racecourses – part racing venue, part public park, with a food court and infield playground.
Kawasaki · KanagawaHakone Shrine, Motohakone, Hakone, Kanagawa, was founded in 757 on the shores of Lake Ashi and is known for its Heiwa no Torii, a red torii gate standing in the lake.
Hakone · KanagawaA Tendai temple in the Nagao Hills of Kawasaki, known as the "hydrangea temple" for the 1,000 shrubs that fill its grounds each June, with a June festival.
Kawasaki · KanagawaA small, free museum near Kawasaki Station on the history of Kawasaki Shuku, the Edo-period post town on the old Tokaido highway between Edo and Kyoto.
Kawasaki · KanagawaAn open-air museum in Kawasaki with 25 traditional Japanese houses relocated from across the country, plus indigo-dyeing sessions, a soba restaurant, and craft displays.
Kawasaki · KanagawaLate fifteenth-century stronghold that served as the seat of the Hōjō clan, rebuilt in the 1960s as a museum and observation point.
Odawara · KanagawaOwakudani Kurotamagokan, Owakudani, Hakone, Kanagawa, is a shop and viewpoint selling kuro-tamago, eggs boiled black in the valley's sulphurous hot springs, said to extend life by seven years.
Hakone · KanagawaHakone Sightseeing Cruise crosses Lake Ashi, Hakone, Kanagawa, aboard pirate ship-styled vessels calling at Togendai, Moto-Hakone, and Hakone-machi, with views of Mount Fuji.
Hakone · KanagawaThe Hakone Open-Air Museum, Hakone, Kanagawa, opened in 1969 as Japan's first open-air museum, with around 120 sculptures set across 70,000 square metres and a Picasso Pavilion.
Hakone · KanagawaHakone-en Aquarium, Motohakone, Hakone, Kanagawa, sits on the shore of Lake Ashi at 723 metres above sea level, Japan's highest-altitude aquarium, with a Seal Plaza and penguins.
Hakone · Kanagawa
