Top 10 Places to Visit in Japan

If you are planning to catch a flight for a trip to Japan, there are places that you want to know before travelling. When speaks about Japan, Hiroshima is the place that comes to everybody’s mind. There are much more places to visit and stay in Japan. The country has cultural traditions, ancient temples, beautiful mountain, wonderful garden, geishas and many more.

1. Tokyo

Tokyo is the capital city of Japan and it is the largest, incredible and energetic destination. It is one of the most popular destination in the world. When you are in Tokyo, there can go for tour temples, dine and countless Japanese culinary delicacies and shop in some of the world’s biggest and most unusual malls. Top attraction in Tokyo are Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building, Akihabara, Tokyo Imperial Palace, Tokyo Tower, Shibuya Pedestrian Crossing, Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden, Meiji Shrine, Ueno Park, Tsukiji Market, Sensoji Temple.

Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building

Akihabara

Tokyo Imperial Palace

Ueno Park

Shibuya Pedestrian Crossing

2. Kyoto

Kyoto was once the imperial capital of Japan for more than 1,000 years. Its located at central Honshu island and the city is known as the city of 10,000 Shrines. The city is famous for the Shinto shrines which includes the top-rated Fushimi Inari Shrine and Buddhist temple. The city is famous for the Gion Matsuri festival and beautiful gardens.

Fushimi Inari Shrine

3. Nara

The place was once known as Heijo, which was the permanent capital of japan which was established in AD 710. Then the capital was moved to Nagaoka in the year 784 when the government was threatened by powerful Buddhist monasteries. In Nara, the main attraction of tourist is the oldest and largest temples in Japan.

Todaiji Temple

4. Takayama

Takayama is a rural place where people who like to be stay in peace and quiet for some time from the city life. The place is located near the northern Japan Alps, Takayama is well known for having one of the best preserved old town in Japan. The most wonderful part of the city is known as San-machi, which consist of three narrow lanes packed with wooden buildings housing sake breweries and little boutiques.

San-machi covered with snow

5. Nikko

Nikko is a small town where Nikko National Park is situated. This place is most popular for Toshogu, Japan’s Most lavishly decorated shrine and the mausoleum of Tokugawa leyasu. Red-lacquered Shin-kyo bridge is the popular attraction of this place. The national park in Nikko offers mountain landscapes, waterfalls, lakes, etc.

Shin-kyo Bridge

Ryuzu Falls in Nikko National Park

6. Kamakura

The place is located near to Tokyo. The place have more seaside resorts sometimes called the Kyoto of eastern Japan. The most famous sight is the Daibutsu, a huge bronze Buddha statue surrounded by trees.

Daibutsu

7. Hiroshima

Hiroshima is located on Honshu Island. It’s the first city in the world to have an atomic bomb dropped on it. Thus, the city’s attractions center around in peace: Peace Park, Peace Memorial and Peace Memorial Museum.

Peace Park & Peace Memorial

Peace Memorial Museum

8. Kanazawa

Kanazawa was the forth largest city in mid-nineteenth century which includes beautiful garden and grand castle. Today, the capital of Ishikawa Prefecture continues to cultivate the arts and contains an attractive old town. Having escaped bombing during World War II, traditional inner-city areas, such as Nagamachi with its samurai houses and the charming geisha teahouse district of Higashi Chaya, remain intact and are a joy to wander around.

Garden in Kanazawa

9. Ishigaki

The place is located on west of Okinawa. Ishigaki offers the premium beaches in Japan and the place is more popular with families since the beaches at Fusaki and Maezato. The town is also having an exuberant nightlife for visitors who have the energy after a day of beachcombing, water sports or climbing Mount Nosoko.

Fusaki beach

Maezato beach

Mount Nosoko

10. Koya-san

Koya-san or Mount Koya is the most important site in Shingon Buddhism. It remains the headquarters of the sect and the small town that grew up around the temple. The site of Kobo Daishi’s mausoleum, this wooded Mount Koya is also the starting and ending place of the Shikoku 88 Temple Pilgrimage. Tourists can get a taste of the monk’s life here as they can stay overnight in the temple.

Mount Koya