One of Japan's three great gardens, created by the lords of Kanazawa over two centuries, with ponds, streams, tea houses and a two-legged stone lantern. In winter, ropes (yukitsuri) protect the pines from snow.
Kanazawa Castle is next door. The city also has the Higashi Chaya geisha district, the Omichō fish market, and the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art. Kanazawa is 2.5 hours from Tokyo by bullet train.
A mountain village of gasshō-zukuri farmhouses, with steep thatched roofs like hands joined in prayer, built to shed heavy snow, a UNESCO World Herit…
One of Japan's few original castles, called the 'Crow Castle' for its black walls, with its keep standing above a moat, with the Japan Alps behind.
A valley in the mountains of Nagano where wild Japanese macaques bathe in a hot spring to keep warm, especially in winter, when snow covers their fur.
A Zen temple whose top two floors are covered in gold leaf, reflected in a pond surrounded by pine trees and gardens.
The palace where Japan's emperors lived until the capital moved to Tokyo in 1868.
The Kyoto residence of the Tokugawa shoguns, who ruled Japan from 1603 to 1867.
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