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About the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo) Overview (History, Features, and Appeal) The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (MOMAT) is a national art museum dedicated to collecting, researching, and exhibiting modern art from postwar Japan. Since its founding, it has housed and presented a wide range of modern and contemporary Japanese art, including paintings...

Overview (History, Features, and Attractions) The Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum (Nagasaki City, Nagasaki Prefecture) is a facility dedicated to conveying the damage and history of the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945, as well as records of the atomic bomb victims, the horror of nuclear weapons, and the importance of peace. It displays photographs and personal belongings from the aftermath of the bombing, video testimonies from survivors, and a display of the hypocenter...

Overview (History, Features, and Attractions) The Shiretoko Five Lakes are the collective name for five small lakes in Shari Town, Hokkaido, scattered among the lush primeval forests of the Shiretoko Peninsula. Shiretoko was registered as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2005, and the Shiretoko Five Lakes are a part of its natural scenery...

Overview (History, Features, and Attractions) The Kurayoshi White-Walled Storehouses are a historic streetscape remaining in the central area of Kurayoshi City, Tottori Prefecture. Merchants' houses and storehouses from the Edo period through the Meiji and Taisho periods are uniformly decorated with white plaster walls, black tiled roofs, cobblestone streets, and...

Overview (History, Features, and Attractions) Lake Biwa is Japan's largest freshwater lake, with an area of approximately 670 km² and a circumference of approximately 235 km. Located almost in the center of Shiga Prefecture, Otsu City is a major city that spreads out along the lake's southwestern shore. Believed to have been created by tectonic movements approximately 400,000 years ago, the lake has long served as a key hub for water transportation, fishing, and agriculture, contributing to the region's livelihoods.

Overview (History, Features, and Attractions) Suwa Taisha Shrine is an ancient shrine representing the Suwa region of Nagano Prefecture and is considered one of the oldest shrines in Japan. Its main deity is Takeminakata-no-kami, and it has been the center of faith in the region since ancient times. Suwa Taisha Shrine is made up of four shrines: Kamisha Honmiya, Kamisha Maemiya, and...

Sankeien Garden (Naka Ward, Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture) Overview (History, Features, and Attractions) Sankeien Garden is a Japanese garden developed in the early 20th century by businessman Hara Sankei. The spacious strolling garden with a pond is dotted with historical buildings relocated and preserved from all over Japan, and is a place where visitors can enjoy the scenery from the Edo period to the present day.

Overview (History, Features, and Attractions) Rikugien Garden is a representative feudal lord's garden located in Honkomagome, Bunkyo Ward, Tokyo. It is a strolling garden with a pond and artificial hills, built in the Edo period (1695) by Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu, a chamberlain to the fifth shogun, Tokugawa Tsunayoshi. The garden's name, "Rikugi," refers to the six forms of Chinese and Japanese poetry (i.e., the "six meanings of poetry").

Cape Manzamo (Onna Village, Okinawa Prefecture) — Overview (History, Features, and Attractions) Cape Manzamo is a scenic coastal spot in Onna Village, central Okinawa. Cliffs and broad green grasslands face the East China Sea, and the elephant-shaped rock formation (zodiacal rock) that juts out is particularly famous. The name comes from the phrase "ten thousand people can sit on it...".

Overview (History, Features, and Attractions) Nyudozaki is a cape located at the northwestern tip of the Oga Peninsula in Oga City, Akita Prefecture. It's known as a viewing spot with an impressive white lighthouse and a panoramic view of the Sea of Japan. The dynamic scenery created by the wave-washed reefs and cliffs, and the sea breeze...