Images of Kochi. February 2026. “Kōchi is the capital city of Kōchi Prefecture located on the island of Shikoku in Japan. It is the main commercial and industrial centre of the prefecture. “As with all of Kōchi Prefecture, the area of Nahari was part of ancient Tosa Province. The river plain now containing the city […]
Images of Iwaki, Mount Akagi, Aomori and Hirosaki. November 2025. “Iwaki is located at the southeastern end of Tōhoku region and borders on Ibaraki Prefecture. The city occupies around 8.9 percent of the total area of Fukushima Prefecture. The eastern part of the city is made up of 60 kilometres (37 miles) of coastline which […]
Images of Morioka, Kanazawa and Fukushima. March 2025. “Morioka is the capital city of Iwate Prefecture located in the Tōhoku region of northern Japan. The area of present-day Morioka has been continuously inhabited since the Japanese Paleolithic period. “Kanazawa is the capital of Ishikawa Prefecture in central Japan. The name ‘Kanazawa’, which means ‘marsh of […]
Images of Kawasaki and Takasaki. January 2025. “Kawasaki is a city in Kanagawa Prefecture, one of the main cities of the Greater Tokyo Area and Keihin Industrial Area. “Takasaki is a city located in Gunma Prefecture. Takasaki is famous as the hometown of the Daruma doll, theoretically representing the Buddhist sage Bodhidharma and in modern […]
Images of Yokosuka, Shizuoka, Hamamatsu and Utsunomiya. November and December 2024. “Yokosuka occupies most of Miura Peninsula, and is bordered by the mouth of Tokyo Bay to the east and Sagami Bay on the Pacific Ocean on the west. “Shizuoka is the capital city of Shizuoka Prefecture, and the prefecture’s second-largest city in both population […]
Images of Nikko, Niigata, Sado Island and Naha. March 2024. “Nikkō is a city in Tochigi Prefecture, Japan. Shōdō Shōnin established the temple of Rinnō-ji in 766, followed by the temple of Chūzen-ji in 784. The village of Nikkō developed around these temples. The shrine of Nikkō Tōshō-gū was completed in 1617 and became a […]
Images of Yokohama and Nagano. January and February 2024. “Yokohama is the second-largest city in Japan by population and by area, and the country’s most populous municipality. It is the capital city and the most populous city in Kanagawa Prefecture. It lies on Tokyo Bay, south of Tokyo, in the Kantō region of the main […]
Images of Ise, Okayama and Fukuyama. November and December 2023. “Ise, formerly called Ujiyamada, is a city in central Mie Prefecture, on the island of Honshū, Japan. Ise is home to Ise Grand Shrine, the most sacred Shintō shrine in Japan. “Okayama is the capital city of Okayama Prefecture in the Chūgoku region of Japan. […]
Images of Osaka, Wakayama, Himeji and Nara. October and November 2023. “Osaka is a designated city in the Kansai region of Honshu in Japan, and one of the three major cities of Japan. Osaka means ‘large hill’ or ‘large slope’. It is unclear when this name gained prominence over Naniwa [the old name of the […]
Images of Arashiyama, Nagoya, Otsu, Sendai, Sapporo, Wakkanai and Nemuro. March and April 2023. “Arashiyama is a district on the western outskirts of Kyoto.” It is famous for its bamboo grove. “Nagoya is the largest city in the Chūbu region, the fourth-most populous city and third most populous urban area in Japan. “Ōtsu is located […]