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YouMe Town Takamatsu

This shopping mall draws customers even from areas outside of Kagawa prefecture. The facility holds about 160 shops including the most popular fashion retailers, knick-knack shops, home décor and electric appliance stores.

• Takamatsu
• Commercial Buildings

Canal City Hakata

On the vast 43,500m² premises, a shopping mall, movie complex, theater, amusement park and two hotels cluster. Its symbol, a 180m-long canal, crosses along the center of the space lined with colorful buildings.

• Fukuoka
• Commercial Buildings

Ippotei Main Store

Founded in 1933, this historic Chinese restaurant in Namba is best known for its signature shumai, wrapped in a thin yellow egg crepe instead of the typical white flour-based skin. Originally developed as a post-war substitute due to flour shortages, the egg wrap became a beloved specialty, and the restaurant continues to preserve this unique method to this day.

• Shinsaibashi, Namba, Nipponbashi (Minami)
• Chinese Food

Otokoyama sake brewery museum

Otokoyama, Hokkaido's famous sake, with a history of about 350 years. The Otokoyama Sake Brewing Museum is operated by Otokoyama Corporation to convey the history and traditions of sake brewing where Otokoyama is produced and sold.

• Asahikawa and Sounkyo
• Museums

Yukura Shrine

Yukura Shrine is located in Yunokawa, a hot spring resort in Hakodate, Hokkaido. Legend has it that numerous cures for incurable diseases have been achieved through hot spring cures, and the shrine is said to have special divine virtues related to hot springs and medicine.

• Hakodate and Matsumae
• Shrines & Temples

[Closed Down] Asahiyama Yuki no Mura

Asahiyama Yuki no Mura is a ski resort just one-minute-walk from the Asahiyama Zoo. Tourists and locals love this facility for casual skiing, snowboarding and sledding. The adjoining Asahiyama Zoo has a restaurant Kamuy-Cikap, serving Mongolian BBQ, pork rice bowl, miso ramen and other Hokkaido cuisines as well as sweets such as cakes and ice cream.

• Asahikawa and Sounkyo
• Outdoors

Takarazuka Grand Theater

Completed in 1924 as an exclusive theater for the glamorous all-female Takarazuka Revue. It was renovated in 1993 to celebrate its 80th anniversary and continues to offer performances throughout the year by the five troupes: Flower, Moon, Snow, Star, and Cosmos.

• Hyogo
• Museums

Kinkaku-ji

During the Muromachi Period, the 3rd Ashikaga shogun, Yoshimitsu, made an abode in this temple called Kitayamadono. It was named as Rokuon-ji after the posthumous name of Yoshimitsu. He had also built Shokoku-ji Temple, and Rokuon-ji, his retirement home, was turned into a branch temple of Shokoku-ji.

• Kyoto
• Shrines & Temples

Miharu Takizakura

The Benishidarezakura (weeping cherry tree) is loved by local residents as a symbol of Miharu Town. It is said that the name "Benishidarezakura" comes from its location in the Taki district, where the small flowers that fill the branches extending in all directions look like a cascading waterfall. The tree is estimated to be over 1,000 years old.

• Fukushima
• Nature Spots

Mikimoto Pearl Island

In 1893, Kokichi Mikimoto succeeded in culturing pearls on this island for the first time in the world. You can visit the Pearl Museum and Kokichi Mikimoto Memorial Hall, and watch demonstrations by women divers in the sea.

• Mie
• Museums