Japanese Landmark Architecture
25 places
Japanese Landmark Architecture
Ginkaku-ji Temple
左京区 · JP
Wabi-sabi made visible — Higashiyama culture's World Heritage Zen temple
Japanese Landmark Architecture
Meiji Jingū
代々木神園町 · JP
A forest of 120,000 trees in central Tokyo — the spiritual heart of Japan's New Year pilgrimage
Japanese Landmark Architecture
Matsue Castle
松江市 · JP
Black-lacquered chidori soaring above Kameda Hill — the San'in region's only National Treasure keep
Japanese Landmark Architecture
National Museum of Western Art
上野公園 · JP
Le Corbusier's only Far Eastern work — a World Heritage museum in Ueno's forest
Japanese Landmark Architecture
Itsukushima
廿日市市 · JP
Itsukushima — the sacred Hiroshima island where the mountain itself is the god
Japanese Landmark Architecture
Byōdō-in Temple
宇治市 · JP
The Pure Land on Japan's 10-yen coin — a Heian dream of paradise on the Uji River
Japanese Landmark Architecture
Matsumoto Castle
丸の内 · JP
Black-lacquered National Treasure — the only flatland keep of Japan's twelve survivors
Japanese Landmark Architecture
Tokyo Station
千代田区 · JP
Red brick reborn after a century — Japan's grand front gate is the railway hub of an entire nation
Japanese Landmark Architecture
Kumamoto Castle
中央区 · JP
Where Kato Kiyomasa's musha-gaeshi walls still defy invaders — Japan's Three Premier Castles
Japanese Landmark Architecture
Edo Castle
千代田区 · JP
Japan's largest sōgamae fortress, seat of 260 years of Tokugawa rule, now the Imperial Palace
Japanese Landmark Architecture
Shuri Castle
那覇市 · JP
Rising from five fires across six centuries — the vermilion palace of the Ryukyu Kingdom reborn.
Japanese Landmark Architecture
Nagoya Castle
中区 · JP
Where the Golden Shachi gleam — the Tokugawa shogunate's flagship castle of Owari
Japanese Landmark Architecture
Kōtoku-in Temple
長谷 · JP
Seated under open sky for 750 years — meet Kamakura's bronze National Treasure
Japanese Landmark Architecture
Fushimi Inari-taisha
山城国 · JP
Through the vermilion tunnel of ten thousand torii — head shrine of Inari worship
Japanese Landmark Architecture
Mount Unzen
島原市 · JP
Kyushu's restless stratovolcano where Heisei-shinzan still tells of nature's raw power
Japanese Landmark Architecture
Tōdai-ji Temple
奈良市 · JP
The world's grandest wooden hall enshrining the Great Buddha of Nara, head temple of Kegon Buddhism
Japanese Landmark Architecture
Ise Jingū
伊勢市 · JP
Shinto's holiest sanctuary, the 'eternally young' shrine reborn every twenty years
Japanese Landmark Architecture
Hōryū-ji Temple
斑鳩町 · JP
Founded by Prince Shotoku in 607 — home to the world's oldest surviving wooden structures
Japanese Landmark Architecture
Osaka Castle
大阪城 · JP
The Taiko's ambition and the Tokugawa's prestige — one of Japan's three great castles in Osaka
Japanese Landmark Architecture
Tokyo National Museum
上野公園 · JP
Japan's oldest national museum and the supreme guardian of 89 National Treasures
Japanese Landmark Architecture
Kinkaku-ji Temple
北区 · JP
A golden pavilion mirrored on a pond — Muromachi Zen culture distilled in one icon
UNESCOJapanese Landmark Architecture
Itsukushima Shrine
廿日市市 · JP
The vermilion shrine that floats on the sea — the Seto Inland Sea's oldest UNESCO sanctuary
UNESCOJapanese Landmark Architecture
Himeji Castle
姫路市 · JP
Where the white heron alights — Japan's supreme World Heritage castle keep
Japanese Landmark Architecture
Kiyomizu-dera Temple
東山区 · JP
The 'Stage of Kiyomizu' atop Higashiyama, a Heian-founded World Heritage cliff temple
Japanese Landmark Architecture
Mount Fuji
静岡県 · JP
Japan's tallest peak at 3,776 m, a sacred volcano of religion and art