Masahisa Takaki 3 days ago 1 min "Kujukushima" in Nagasaki Prefecture is a group of small islands dotted along by a rias coast. Kujukushima literally means 99 islands, but it actually counts 208. Most islands are desert, and just four of them are inhabited. As...
Masahisa Takaki Apr 4 1 min "Yanaka-Ginza" with "Yuyake-dandan" in Taito-ku, Tokyo. "Ginza" in Tokyo is widely known as Japan's No.1 shopping district in terms of status. Thus there are so many sopping districts in Japan...
Masahisa Takaki Mar 30 1 min "Hantei" restaurant in Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, is designated as a tangible cultural property. The old three-storied wooden building in the picture, built in 1912, survived the Great Kanto Earthquake in 1923 and the great Tokyo Air...
Masahisa Takaki Mar 23 1 min "Suminokura Ryoi", a wealthy merchant in Kyoto, is called the father of water transport. Suminokura Ryoi piled up vast wealth from the end of the 16th century to the beginning of the 17th century mainly by the trade with...
Masahisa Takaki Mar 17 1 min "Kongosanmai-in" is an element of one of a World Heritage Sites of Japan. This Buddhist temple, standing on the flat and wide mountaintop of Mt. Koya, Wakayama Prefecture, was built in 1211 to pray for the...
Masahisa Takaki Mar 14 1 min "Zenrin-ji" Buddhist temple in Kyoto, going by the name of 'Eikan-do", is noted for autumn foliage. This temple, founded in 853, originally was a "kangakuin" which means an educational institution for the nobility. Many young students...
Masahisa Takaki Mar 11 1 min "Ninomaru Teien" of Nijo Castle in Kyoto is one of the greatest Japanese gardens. This Japanese garden is classified into "shoinzukuri teien", which is designed to appreciate from "shoin", a living room and library of...
Masahisa Takaki Mar 8 1 min "Kamo-nana-ishi" stones mean seven kinds of stones from the upper waters of the Kamo in Kyoto. Seven kinds of different stones, different colors and textures, from the upper waters of the Kamo running in the heart of Kyoto have long...
Masahisa Takaki Mar 4 1 min Tateishi Park is one of the best scenic spots in Kanagawa Prefecture. This park is found on the west coast of the Miura Peninsula, Kanagawa Prefecture. The vertical rock, 12 meters high, against the...
Masahisa Takaki Mar 1 1 min "Dobuita-dori" is a unique shopping street in the heart of Yokosuka City, Kanagawa Prefecture. This street originally was a wide drainage flanked with narrow lanes both sides, before the Second World War. The Imperial Japanese Navy...
