Shrines, museums, parks, and the spots in between, with the access details worked out.
A gorge on the Tomoe River at Asuke in Aichi, planted with momiji maples in the 17th century and now one of the best known places in Japan for autumn colour.
Toyota · AichiA kilometre of columnar cliffs on the Fukui coast, formed in a rock that produces this shape in only a few places in the world.
Sakai · FukuiA gorge in Miyagi cut a hundred metres deep by the Otani River, walled with pale rock and walked by riverside paths from spring to late autumn.
Osaki · MiyagiA footbridge 375 metres long hanging 100 metres above a dam lake in a gorge in Ibaraki, with a bungee jump from the middle of it.
Hitachiota · IbarakiA limestone cave in Fukushima with 600 metres open to walk, holding an unusual range of formations, including a rare disc-shaped shield.
Tamura · FukushimaA line of some forty rock pillars running out to sea at Kushimoto in Wakayama, left standing when the softer rock around them wore away.
Kushimoto · WakayamaA small island off Shirahama in Wakayama with a round hole worn through its middle, which the setting sun passes into around the equinoxes.
Shirahama · WakayamaA small island in the Inland Sea with about a thousand wild rabbits on it, which was the Japanese army's poison gas works until 1945.
Takehara · HiroshimaA street of wax merchants' houses in Uchiko, Ehime, with walls in a yellow plaster made from local earth, preserved since 1982.
Uchiko · EhimeA villa above the Hiji River at Ozu, built over ten years by a wax merchant and counted a masterpiece of sukiya building.
Ozu · EhimeA park at Arita in Saga built around a copy of the Zwinger palace of Dresden, marking the porcelain that went from here to Europe.
Arita · SagaAn abandoned coal mining island off Nagasaki, once the most crowded place in Japan, left empty since the mine closed in 1974.
NagasakiThe only Confucius temple in Japan built in full Chinese style, put up in 1893 by the Qing government and the Chinese community of Nagasaki.
NagasakiA merchant quarter on the Ono River in Chiba that grew rich on river trade, and the first district in the Kanto region put under preservation.
Katori · ChibaA wide, low waterfall in Kumamoto that can be walked behind, left by the eruption that formed the Aso caldera 90,000 years ago.
Oguni · KumamotoA sacred highland at 970 meters on Mount Kirishima's slopes, legendary in Japanese mythology as where the heavenly grandchild descended to rule.
Kirishima · KagoshimaA restaurant inn of 1872 in Fuchu, Hiroshima, with a strolling garden of 1918, now on the national register and open to the public.
Fuchu · HiroshimaA five-hectare quarter of Edo and Meiji merchant houses in Takehara, Hiroshima, built on the fortunes of salt and known as the Little Kyoto of Aki.
Takehara · Hiroshima
