A park built near the hypocentre of the atomic bomb dropped on 6 August 1945. The skeletal Atomic Bomb Dome, one of the few buildings left standing, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The Peace Memorial Museum tells the story of the bombing and its victims, a deeply moving experience.
See the Children's Peace Monument, decorated with paper cranes. Hiroshima is famous for its layered okonomiyaki. It's about 1.5 hours from Osaka by bullet train.
A Shinto shrine on the island of Miyajima, built over the water, with a huge vermilion torii gate that seems to float at high tide.
A small island in the Seto Inland Sea transformed into a home of contemporary art.
The finest surviving feudal castle in Japan, called the 'White Heron' for its brilliant white walls and roofs, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Osaka's lively entertainment street along a canal, famous for giant neon signs, including the Glico running man, and for street food: takoyaki (octop…
A mountaintop monastery town founded in 816 by the monk Kūkai, with more than 100 temples, many offering shukubō (temple lodging), where you eat vege…
A path through towering green bamboo in western Kyoto, which creaks and rustles in the wind.
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