Stories you hear where they happened.

Hokkaido

Goryokaku: The Star That Lost to the Sea

The Final 8 Days of the Defeated

4 chapters ・ 2.4 km · about 2 hours

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Kanagawa

Masako and Yoritomo: A Capital Built by Two

Kamakura began with a single married couple

5 chapters ・ 3 km · about 1.5 hours

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Kanagawa

The Sea That Carried Kamakura

The Kannon, the Great Buddha's roof, and the story of a sweet

5 chapters ・ 2 km · about 1.5 hours

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Kanagawa

Kita-Kamakura, the Valley of Salvation

Every temple in this valley was built to save someone

5 chapters ・ 2 km · 1.5–2 hours

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Gifu

Chiune Sugihara: Visas for Life

Until His Name Was Carved into This Hill

3 chapters ・ 4.8 km · 2.5–3 hours

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Kyoto

Fushimi Inari, the Mountain of the Senbon Torii

A vermilion tunnel: a queue of 10,000 wishes

5 chapters ・ 5 km · 2.5 hours

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Osaka

Dotonbori: The Reason Behind "Eat Till You Drop"

Beneath the Neon, 400 Years of Reasons

4 chapters ・ 1.5 km · about 1 hour

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Hyogo

Himeji Castle: Where the Women Remain

Forty-eight lords came and went. Stories remain at the top, in a well, and in a turret.

5 chapters ・ 3.2 km · 2.5–3 hours

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Nara

Nara: Why They Built the Great Buddha

How a giant rose in a city of plague

5 chapters ・ 2.5 km · 2 hours

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Hiroshima

Miyajima and Kiyomori

The island that is a god, set afloat on the sea

5 chapters ・ 1.3 km · 1.5 hours

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Hiroshima

Hiroshima: 600 Meters Overhead

August 6, 1945 — what happened here

4 chapters ・ 0.8 km · 1–2 hours

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Oita

Beppu: Living with the Hells

Why did the people of Beppu call Japan's finest hot springs 'hell'?

5 chapters ・ 1 km + bus · about 2.5 hours

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Okinawa

Shuri: The Gate Even the King Did Not Pass

How far the royal capital of Ryukyu let each person through

4 chapters ・ 2.7 km · about 3 hours

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