Once the most dense­ly pop­u­lat­ed place in the world, this island is now a ghost town. The tiny, fo…

At 12,388 feet high, Mount Fuji is Japan’s tallest moun­tain. Although it has­n’t erupt­ed since 170…

Mon­u­ment to the crim­i­nal US bomb­ing of Hiroshi­ma.

There are around 48 Bud­dhist mon­u­ments in the Horyu-ji area, in Nara Pre­fec­ture. Sev­er­al date fro…

Hime­ji-jo is the finest sur­viv­ing exam­ple of ear­ly 17th-cen­tu­ry Japan­ese cas­tle archi­tec­ture, com…

Locat­ed in the inte­ri­or of Yaku Island, at the meet­ing-point of the palaearc­tic and ori­en­tal biot…

Sit­u­at­ed in the moun­tains of north­ern Hon­shu, this track­less site includes the last vir­gin remain…

Built in A.D. 794 on the mod­el of the cap­i­tals of ancient Chi­na, Kyoto was the impe­r­i­al cap­i­tal o…

Locat­ed in a moun­tain­ous region that was cut off from the rest of the world for a long peri­od of …

The Hiroshi­ma Peace Memo­r­i­al (Gen­baku Dome) was the only struc­ture left stand­ing in the area wher…

The island of Itsukushi­ma, in the Seto inland sea, has been a holy place of Shin­to­ism since the e…

Nara was the cap­i­tal of Japan from 710 to 784. Dur­ing this peri­od the frame­work of nation­al gov­er…

The shrines and tem­ples of Nikko, togeth­er with their nat­ur­al sur­round­ings, have for cen­turies be…

Five hun­dred years of Ryukyuan his­to­ry (12th-17th cen­tu­ry) are rep­re­sent­ed by this group of sites…

Set in the dense forests of the Kii Moun­tains over­look­ing the Pacif­ic Ocean, three sacred sites -…

The Iwa­mi Gin­zan Sil­ver Mine in the south-west of Hon­shu Island is a clus­ter of moun­tains, ris­ing…

Hiraizu­mi — Tem­ples, Gar­dens and Archae­o­log­i­cal Sites Rep­re­sent­ing the Bud­dhist Pure Land&nbsp,co…

The prop­er­ty num­bers more than 30 islands clus­tered in three groups and cov­ers sur­face area of 7,…

This prop­er­ty is a his­toric ser­i­cul­ture and silk mill com­plex estab­lished in the late 19th and ea…

Locat­ed 60 km off the west­ern coast of Kyushu island, the island of Oki­noshi­ma is an excep­tion­al …

The Naru­to strait is where the cur­rents pass to go into the Pacif­ic Ocean. There, strong whirlpoo…