Best Architectures In Japan

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Designated by a worldwide architect, Tadao Ando, it's located at Awaji Yume Butai. The 100 flower beds, makes the most of the mountain slope, is like a beautiful maze. You can see them with the ocean view.◎Entrance fee: free The flowers change in each season.

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You can enjoy many kinds of arts and the museum building itself.

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Interpretive Building is very beautiful and clean. The architecture itself is beautiful and exhibits like art museum. In the Greenhouse Of Insect, many butterflies fly, and make you feel like to visit the kingdom of butterfly. I could enjoy even the rainy day.◎Entrance fee: adult 410 yen, student 200 yen, under junior high school student fee.

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Shirohige Shrine stands by the Lake Biwa and is proud of the oldest history in Oumi region. To be surprised, its torii gate stands on the lake! We can see the illuminated torii at night, and the lightened by the rising sun in the early morning.

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You can see various beautiful figures of Itsukushima Shrine by the tidal current because its precinct partly belongs to the sea. Big Torii floating on the sea at high tide is wonderful, but what is more, at low tide, you can walk to it and see the beautiful reflection in the pool.◎The most beautiful reflection can be seen when the Torii is soaked a little bit in the water. You need to look for a pool with no waves.

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Okayama's popular tourist destination 'Bikan Chiku (Historical Quarter)'. It was flourished as a merchant town and now it leaves buildings with beautiful white walls and willow trees along the river, which are the taste of Edo Period. You can enjoy boating and rickshaw like traveling to the old times of Japan. And also the delicious food around here.◎Access: about 10min from Kurashiki Station. There're lot of parking lots around the area. The boating is so popular that you should buy tickets as soon as you arrive.

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Kintai-kyo Bridge, one of the three greatest bridges in Japan, has the wonderful five arches! You can see the elaborately combined woods very close on the reverse, which makes you moved by its beautiful figure and high skills. And you can see the Iwakuni Castle on the far mountain top, and feel the history and atmosphere of a castle town.◎Entrance fee: Kintai-kyo Round Ticket 300yen, Kintai-kyo, Ropeway, Iwaguni Castle 940yen

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At Iya in Tokushima, Kazura Bridge is one of the three most curious bridges in Japan. The bridge is made from hardy kiwi. You can enjoy the thrills of creaking and swinging of the bridge and nice view of the valley at the same time.◎Toll: Adult￥550 Child￥350 Open: From sunrise to sunset, throughout the year

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Okuiya Double Kazura Bridges have Obashi (Male Bridge) and Mebashi (Female Bridge). Male Bridge is longer and higher than Female Bridge. When you look down, you can see the mountain river through the floorboard, it's so thrilling. Can you go through this fear!?◎It's a different place from Iya's Kazura Bridge. You can cross many times by one entrance fee. Let's try to cross Female Bridge before you challenge Male Bridge.

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The Imabari castle is illuminated in warm-color and looks like floating. Of course, it's also good in daytime.

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The bridge is said that it is one of the three greatest bridges in japan (The others are Nihon-bashi bridge and Kintai-kyo bridge) and national important cultural property.

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Taketomi Island's time passes slowly. Traditional red tiles, cute Shisa, coral fences and white sand street… All of them makes us happy! You can also find many photogenic places with flowers all the year around.◎Izumiya with lovely arch of Bougainvillea is an inn! Access to Taketomi: 10~15 min by ferry from Ishigaki Port. 1150yen for a round-trip.

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Yachiyoza is a very valuable building that still has the style in Edo period and is recognized as a National Important Cultural Property. As we come inside, the scenery is very awesome. It's used even now every week, a famous Kabuki actor Ebizō Ichikawa often plays here. If it has not performances on that day, visitors can see inside, and also the dressing room and stage.

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It was designed by a archest Toyo Ito who has won the Pritzker Architecture Prize, that is to say the Nobel Prize of architecture.

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Very spacious park, you can enjoy arts and taking exercise.

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Otaru Canal is popular as a tourist spot. At night, gas lamps burn and make a fantastic scene differ from the canal at daytime. Beautiful reflection of illuminated warehouses on the water. You can take a night walk on the well-kept path for walkers♪◎Car: 1.5h from Shin-chitose Airport via expressway Train: 1h and 10 min by Express Airport Line, get off at JR Otaru and 8 min walk

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In the daytime, the sunlight comes in beautifully from the glass. And in the night, we can take very cool photos like these. The scenery born from the iron frameworks and glass is worth seeing once.

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Senso-ji Temple becomes so quiet and wrapped in a nice atmosphere at night, that the excitement of the daytime at Nakamise is not true. I found a very beautiful five-storied pagoda over the huge straw sandals at Hozomon Arch.◎A huge straw sandal is 4.5 meters tall, 1.5 meters in width, and 500 kg in weight. Since the first dedication in 1941, it's the eighth one. It expresses the power of Nio, the god in Hozomon Arch, and people say that the devil who sees the huge sandals fears and goes away...

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This underground space like the world of game 'DRAGON QUEST' is a stone pit site and about 20,000 square meters. So, you might come across some DRAGON QUEST monsters!

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Shirakawa Village is a heavy snowfall area, but it snowed not so much for us to visit here this winter. And we can enjoy the snowy landscape as much as we want! It will snow more during February, so you're still in time to see this scenery.

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The night illumination of Meikou Toriton (three bridges connecting Nagoya Port) is beautiful. Near from here, there're Nabana-no Sato, Nagashima Super Land, and Yokkaichi Complex is located in short distance.

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I went to Yokkaichi Inaba Port Line that has become famous as a photo shooting spot since it opened in April 1st in 2018. When I looked up, there's a dragon's belly flying in the sky.

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The Bandaibashi bridge has 6 sequence arches. It is a national important cultural property and a symbol of Niigata. So, I like this retro scenery.

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Okaya once had the biggest produce of raw silk in the world. You can learn the history of growing silkworm that had supported Japanese modernization, from the exhibitions of historical records and precious machines in existence. And at Miyasaka Silk Factory, you can see how to spin silk actually, then, the delicacy of raw silk and the high-level skills will make you moved. ◎By car, 5 min from Okaya IC of Nagano Speedway, or 10 min from JR Okaya Station. Entrance fee: 500 yen, 13-15years old 300 yen, 6-12 years old 150 yen.

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This castle has a long history since Japanese Heian Era, and now it's a people's oasis with rich nature. You can see the seasonal scenery such as cherry blossom in spring and colored leaves in autumn. Here's also good for castle-loving people for there're some castle features such as stone walls that has a history of Sengoku battles with Takeda Army.◎1 min walk from JR Komore Station. Parking area is available. Entrance fee: adult 300 yen, child 100 yen. The Cherry Blossom Festival is opened till 4/30.

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It has won some prizes such as '25 most beautiful libraries in the world'. Inside the library with windows like dots on the white wall, the 2nd and 3rd floor are very open for the stairwells. There're three different sizes for the windows and the sun light comes from them beautifully to wrap the room gently.◎To take pictures of the inside, you need to fill in the application and meet some conditions. You can use for free because it's a city library. Open: weekdays 10:00-19:00, holidays 10:00-17:00. Regular holiday: Wednesdays

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Gokayama has some 'Gassho Zukuri' (steep roofed) houses even now. Among them, a house of Iwase family, you can get the stories of the village's history, the house structure, and look inside the house. Enjoy the glimpse of life of people living at 'Gassho Zukuri' house.

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There's a lingering scent of old times here and there in this representative structure of 'ocha-ya', and you can feel like a time traveling to Edo period. Such an elaborately, gorgeously and dignifiedly made house in Higashi Chaya Machi had been once set as high valuation as Kyoto Gion. Feel the fascinating atmosphere.