🇯🇵Japan
One of only 3 'perfect gardens' in Japan, this park is designed to be beautiful during every season.
Traditional neighborhood with teahouses where geisha perform, plus shops selling gold-leaf crafts.
Modern & large-scale displays of Japanese & international art in a circular, glass-walled building.
Reconstructed 16th-century castle famous for its extensive surrounding garden, with tours.
Village featuring cobblestone streets & former samurai homes, plus shops & restaurants.
The Nomura family's restored Edo-era home features samurai artifacts, a garden & a tea room.
Tours are offered of this unique Buddhist temple with hidden rooms, secret passageways & traps.
Strikingly designed & colored gate with twisting supporting pillars, modelled on a traditional drum.
Historic district featuring craft shops, Edo-period teahouses & a museum with tours of the area.
Nagoya is the capital and most populous city of Aichi Prefecture in Japan. It is the largest city in the Chūbu region, the fourth-most populous city in Japan, and the principal city of the Chūkyō metropolitan area, which is itself the third-most populous metropolitan area in Japan. Nagoya is located on the Pacific coast in central Honshu, and its seaport is the largest in Japan.
Kyoto, officially Kyoto City , is the capital city of Kyoto Prefecture in the Kansai region of Japan's largest and most populous island of Honshu. As of 2020, the city had a population of 1.46 million, making it the ninth-most populous city in Japan. More than half (56.8%) of Kyoto Prefecture's population resides in the city. The city is the cultural anchor of the substantially larger Greater Kyoto, a metropolitan statistical area (MSA) home to a census-estimated 3.8 million people. It is also part of the even larger Keihanshin metropolitan area, along with Osaka and Kobe.
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