Lake Biwa and Its Surroundings: A Water Heritage Site of Life and Prayer
A Site for Purifying the Six Roots of Perception and Healing the Six Senses~Japan’s Most Dangerous National Treasure and a World-Famous Radon Hot Spring~
The largest Daisen cattle and horse market in Japan which has been nurtured by Jizo worship.
Henro 〜The Pilgrimage Route and 88 Temples of Shikoku〜
Dekansho-Bushi:Hometown Memories Passed Down in Folk Songs
“Awaji - the island of Kuni-umi (a myth of the birth of Japan)” described in the first part of “Kojiki” 〜Work of fishermen who supported ancient Japan〜
Live with whales
The Dawn of Japan : Women in the Asuka Period
People’s life and hearts nurtured by forests and vice versa 〜Yoshino, a range of beautiful forests, and the birthplace of afforestation〜
Chinju-fu (naval base) in Yokosuka, Kure, Sasebo and Maizuru: 〜Cities where you can feel the dynamic modernization of Japan〜
A Historical Walk through 800 Years of Japanese Tea
Japan Heritage in the Kansai region
- Lake Biwa and Its Surroundings: A Water Heritage Site of Life and Prayer
- Otsu, Hikone, Omihachiman, Takashima, Higashiomi, Maibara cities, Shiga Prefecture
- Water has long been worshipped as a edium for purification and healing. When Buddhism arrived in Japan from Ea...
- A Site for Purifying the Six Roots of Perception and Healing the Six Senses~Japan’s Most Dangerous National Treasure and a World-Famous Radon Hot Spring~
- Misasa, Tottori Prefecture
- Mount Mitoku features a characteristic landscape that interweaves steep topography used as the training ground...
- The largest Daisen cattle and horse market in Japan which has been nurtured by Jizo worship.
- Daisen-cho, Hoki-cho, Kofu-cho and Yonago City, Tottori Prefecture
- Jizo Bosatsu, which emerged on the top of Mt.Daisen, is believed to save all beings. And adherence to Jizo Bos...
- Henro〜The Pilgrimage Route and 88 Temples of Shikoku〜
- Tokushima Prefecture, Kochi Prefecture, Ehime Prefecture,Kagawa Prefecture & 57 local government office
- The Shikoku Henro is a pilgrimage route of 88 temples that was established by the great Buddhist priest, Kukai...
- Dekansho-Bushi:Hometown Memories Passed Down in Folk Songs
- Sasayama, Hyogo Prefecture
- Tanba Sasayama flourished as a castle town during the Edo Period and is famous for dekansho-bushi, the traditi...
- “Awaji - the island of Kuni-umi (a myth of the birth of Japan)” described in the first part of “Kojiki” 〜Work of fishermen who supported ancient Japan〜
- Awaji, Sumoto and Minami-awaji, Hyogo Prefecture
- A myth about the birth of Japan” described in the first part of “Kojiki,” the nation’s oldest history book. Th...
- Live with whales
- Shingu City, Nachikatsuura-cho, Taiji-cho and Kushimoto-cho, Wakayama Prefecture
- Whales were very special to Japanese people as an object of religious faith. People were afraid of the huge bo...
- The Dawn of Japan : Women in the Asuka Period
- Asuka village, Kashihara city
- Japan was established as a state in the Asuka Period (592-710AD) during which time there were many female empr...
- People’s life and hearts nurtured by forests and vice versa〜Yoshino, a range of beautiful forests, and the birthplace of afforestation〜
- Yoshino-cho, Shimoichi-cho, Kurotaki-mura, Tenkawa-mura, Shimokitayama-mura, Kamikitayama-mura, Kawakami-mura and Higashiyoshino-mura, Nara Prefecture
- In the Yoshino district of Nara Prefecture, the birthplace of Japan’s afforestation, there are two types of fo...
- Chinju-fu (naval base) in Yokosuka, Kure, Sasebo and Maizuru:〜Cities where you can feel the dynamic modernization of Japan〜
- Yokosuka City (Kanagawa Pref.), Kure City (Hiroshima Pref.), Sasebo City (Nagasaki Pref.) and Maizuru City (Kyoto Pref.)
- There was urgent need for Japan in the Meiji period to strengthen its coastal defense forces to compete with W...
- A Historical Walk through 800 Years of Japanese Tea
- Minamiyamashiro Region (Uji, Joyo, Yawata, Kyotanabe, Kizugawa, Ujitawara, Wazuka, Minamiyamashiro), Kyoto Prefecture
- Tea was first introduced to Japan from China during the Tang Dynasty (618-907). In Kyoto’s Minamiyamashiro reg...
