Mt Hakodate
Mount Hakodate is 334 meters high, the view from the mountain is spectacular and is one of Japan’s best three night views. It’ accessible by ropeway, bus or car. The ropeway depart from Motomachi district and cost for adults 640 yens one way and 1160 yens for a round trip.
Kimii-Dera, Wakayama
Kimii-Dera is built on the side of a small mountain, so you have to ascend 231 stairs before reaching. It is the second temple of the Saigoku 33 Kannon Temple Pilgrimage. It’s probably the most famous temple in the city & was originally built by a monk from China’s Tang Dynasty in 770. The original buildings do not remain, but historic structures include gate built in 1509 and the pagoda built in 1449.
Adachi of Art
Congratulations to Adachi Museum of Art, which has been selected as Japan’s most beautiful Japanese garden for eleven years in a row by The Journal of Japanese Gardening (JOJG – Shiosai Project)!!
足立美術館庭園が11年連続の日本一！
Kitaichi Venetian Art Museum
Otaru had a thriving herring fishing trade. Glass buoys were used to light up fishing boats at night to attract herrings. A glass industry flourished in Otaru to support the herring trade. When the herring fishing industry declined in the 1950s, the makers of glass buoys diverted their business to produce refined glassware, as the demand for buoys plunged. Kitaichi Venetian Art Museum features a huge gondola in the middle of the ground floor, and on other floors there are recreations of affluent lifestyle of Renaissance-era Italy. Activities including the opportunity to dress in period costumes for memorial photograph, purchase Venice-imported glass items, and you can even take a rest in the cafe.
Otaru Canal
Otaru Canal is the symbol of this city. The canal zone boomed in the Meiji Period when Otaru was the only significant port on Hokkaido’s Sea of Japan coast and after the Hokkaido Development Office was established in nearby Sapporo in 1869. The gaslights and stone warehouses along the canal now produce a beautiful and romantic nightscape popular with young couples. There are many cafes, museums, restaurants & shops as well as the brewery restaurant belonging to Otaru Beer.
