Scenery絶景
Pick one of these and build a day around it. Some places need no explaining.
Pick one of these and build a day around it. Some places need no explaining.
Some places here work on anybody, in any weather, with no background knowledge at all. If your trip is short, or you are travelling with people who would rather look than read, build the days around these and everything else is a bonus.
The first two hours after opening are the quietest, and that changes a day here more than the choice of destination.
Each links to the prefecture it is in, where you will find how to get there and what to eat.
Reflected in a lake on a still winter morning. Often invisible in summer.
Thousands of vermilion gates. Free, open all night, empty before 07:00.
A shrine gate standing in the sea, with deer in the village streets.
Fifty-metre dunes above the sea, climbed barefoot. 60°C sand in summer afternoons.
Thatched farmhouses in a mountain valley, best under snow.
A live crater and grassland inside a caldera twenty-five kilometres across.
Fourteen kilometres of level path beside moss and small waterfalls.
Pale blue water and small islands. Boats yes, swimming no.
A 133-metre fall beside a vermilion pagoda.
123 red gates down a headland to a cliff over the sea.
Low striped farmland under enormous sky. Lavender in July.
The last clear river in Japan, crossed by low bridges with no railings.