Masahisa Takaki Sep 23 1 min The National Museum of Western Art in Ueno, Tokyo, is registered as a World Cultural Heritage Site. This museum opened in 1959. The original collection consisted of 370 European works of art that Kojiro Matsukata, the first president of...
Masahisa Takaki Sep 15 1 min The ACROS Fukuoka Building, which stands in the heart of Fukuoka City, is known as Mt. ACROS. This unique building was constructed in 1995 on the site where the Fukuoka prefectural government building once stood. The 14-story...
Masahisa Takaki Sep 8 1 min The construction work of the Linear Chuo Shinkansen Line connecting Tokyo and Osaka is under way. The Tokaido Shinkansen, the world's first high-speed railroad, started commercial operation in 1964, traveling 550km between Tokyo and...
Masahisa Takaki Sep 3 1 min Ama-no-Iwato Shrine in Takachiho, Miyazaki Prefecture, enshrines the mythical Ama-no-Iwato cave. According to Japanese mythology, Amaterasu Omikami who is the sun goddess and an ancestor of the emperor, became angry with her younger...
Masahisa Takaki Aug 25 1 min Takachiho Shrine enshrines important imperial ancestral deities from mythology. In the Takachiho region of Miyazaki Prefecture, where this shrine is located, there are some 88 shrines dedicated to the imperial...
Masahisa Takaki Aug 20 1 min Aoshima Shrine is said to have been founded by the grandfather of the Emperor Jinmu. Aoshima Shrine's precincts cover the entire area of Aoshima Island in Miyazaki City, which has long been revered as a sacred place and...
Masahisa Takaki Aug 12 1 min The subtropical plant community on Aoshima Island is designated as a special natural monument. Located just south of the center of Miyazaki City, Aoshima Island is almost flat island with a circumference of about 1.5 kilometers, and...
Masahisa Takaki Aug 6 1 min Takachiho Gorge in northern Miyazaki Prefecture is designated as a national natural monument. Mt. Aso, one of the world's largest super volcanoes, destructively erupted four times between 270,000 and 90,000 years ago to form its...
Masahisa Takaki Jul 31 1 min The Kakita River in eastern Shizuoka Prefecture is Japan's shortest class A river. The Kakita River only 1.2 kilometers long, fed by the Kakitagawa Spring Group, is the shortest class A river in Japan. The class A river...
Masahisa Takaki Jul 26 2 min The Yushukan, attached to Yasukuni Shrine, is the oldest war museum in Japan. This museum, which stands on the grounds of Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo's Kudan district, was opened in 1882. This was built to exhibit the...
