Yakinikutei Rokkasen Honten
“Yakinikutei Rokkasen,” located just steps from Shinjuku Station on the Toei Oedo Line, serves high-quality meat at a reasonable price. Serving only carefully selected portions of the finest Japanese Kuroge Wagyu beef from all over Japan, their firm commitment to the quality of meat makes them very appealing.
Came to Japan just to try all-you-can-eat premium Wagyu beef!
Nebuta Museum Wa Rasse
Wa Rasse is an eye-catching, modern, red museum close to Aomori Station. It was opened in 2011 to preserve Aomori Nebuta Festival held between 2nd and 7th of August every year.
They display Nebuta floats and show videos about the festival’s history. The powerful music during the festival is pretty impressive.
Mukaitaki
This hot spring inn is well-known in Aizu-Wakamatsu’s backroom, Higashiyama Onsen. In Edo Period, Aizu Domain used this Kitsune-yu as its designated resort, which was later sold and opened as a hot spring inn in 1873.
I really love the vibe of traditional Japanese inns. It's charming both inside and out.
Tsuruoka City Kamo Aquarium
The only aquarium in Yamagata by the coast of Tsuruoka City, which exhibits more than 60 species of jellyfish. It is known for the world’s top care and different kinds of exhibitions.
All kinds of jellyfish move slowly in the tanks, almost like they're dancing. The jellyfish ramen and ice cream are unique and taste great too.
Komaya Tabi Shop
This shop in Fuchu traces its history back to the Taisho Period. It started as a tailor to make tabi socks and work clothing for craftsmen.
There are so many types of Japanese festival trinkets here. They're beautifully made and super cute—perfect as souvenirs.
Hanaya Yohei Oku Branch
Come relax at Hanaya Yohei Oku branch, where both table seats and Japanese style rooms (where you can remove your shoes and dine on tatami) are available. Their offering consists of a wide variety of Japanese dishes, such as Sushi, Shabushabu, Sukiyaki, Tempura and Tonkatsu.
You can watch the trains go by on the tracks from the window seats.
Hakone Gora Park
This first French-style formal garden in Japan was opened in 1914. The French garden is typically laid out on a vast flat land in symmetry with ponds and plants in geometric shapes. This park is unique because it is on a slope. Between the front gate and west gate, there is about 40m-drop as if the park was imposed in the middle of a slope.
It's a small but beautiful park with a great variety of flowers. Glad I had the pass, so I could visit for free.
Hakone Venetian Glass Museum
The Hakone Venetian Glass Museum is located in the lush greenery of Hakone Sengokuhara. The compound consists of the Venetian Glass Museum, the Modern Glass Museum and the Glass Workshop. The garden overlooks Owakudani Valley. There is a lovely cafe/restaurant, and an interesting museum store.
The glass artworks inside are incredibly delicate and detailed. The insect section is especially impressive—all the little bugs are made from glass and look amazing.
Fuji-Q Highland
Fuji-Q Highland is an amusement park featuring many world-class thrill rides and character theme parks.
The roller coasters are super thrilling, and the haunted house is definitely a highlight.
Asagaya
Asagaya is located about 8 minutes by train on JR Chuo line from Shinjuku station. This area is stretched between the south and north centering on the station, the tree lines of Japanese Zelkova on Nakasugi street are beautiful with their fresh greenery and Autumn leaves, Zenpukuji River Green Area is a popular spot for cherry blossom viewing in Spring.
As soon as you step out of JR Asagaya Station, you'll see Tanabata Festival decorations everywhere. Asagaya is now one of the top three Tanabata festival spots in Japan.