Welcome to a collection of Official Tourism Travel Links Japan. These links to Japanese Islands, Cities and Prefectures will make your visit to Japan easier.

Saihoji Temple—better known as Kokedera, the “Moss Temple,” is the kind of Kyoto place that refuses to be rushed. It isn’t designed for a quick loop and a few photos. Kyoto’s Garden of Origins and Journeys is designed for practice, for quiet, for the old understanding that the best journeys begin with a steady mind.

Onn Japanese sweet shop or Wagashi in the Gokomachi district of Kyoto opened late 2023 by owner Suzuka Yamaoka. The goal was to provide an experience that warms both the body and soul of it’s customers.

Japan has numerous abandoned shrines, or haikyo, as they’re referred to. Often found in rural areas and overgrown mountainsides, they are mostly the result of depopulation, modernization, or disaster. Abandoned Oiwa Shrine, Southeast of Kyoto is the example I’ve shared here.

Today, Tokyo's Kitchen, Tsukiji Outer Market still describes itself as Japan’s “Food Town,” where wholesale and retail shops share the streets with restaurants, and where new culinary trends are “born” in the middle of old routines.

By late morning in Higashiyama, the transformation is already underway. Silk on the Sidewalk: Kyoto’s Kimono Rentals are marked by a row of sandals sat at the entrance of a kimono rental shop like punctuation marks.

High on the forested slopes of Mount Mitaki, northwest of central Hiroshima, stands Mitaki-dera: Hiroshima's Mountain Temple, and one of western Japan’s most atmospheric Buddhist temples.

This is The National Art Center, Tokyo (NACT), one of Japan’s largest exhibition spaces, and a very different kind of national museum.

Mud ponds are not ornamental. They are working agricultural ponds designed to grow koi the way rice fields grow crops: slowly, naturally, and with deep knowledge of the land.