100 most beautiful historical scenes of Japan

Sites are listed by region and prefecture, from north to south, not by order of interest.

Hokkaidō

Otaru

Hakodate

Matsumae Castle, Nomi

Tohoku

Aomori prefecture Hirosaki Kuroishi Iwate prefecture Hiraizumi

Akita prefecture Semboku Miyagi prefecture Matsushima Sendai & surrounding

Fukushima prefecture Shimogo

Kanto

Ibaraki prefecture Mito Saitama prefecture Kawagoe

Kanagawa prefecture Yokohama Hayama Hakone Oiso Odawara

Shizuoka prefecture Fujinomiya Tokyo Taito ward Castle town of Edo

Chūbu

Niigata prefecture Sado Island Sekikawa Toyama prefecture Takaoka Ishikawa prefecture Kanazawa Kaga

Fukui prefecture Eihei-ji temple Fukui Echizen Obama Katsuyama Nagano prefecture Karuizawa Nagano Nagiso Matsumoto Obuse Shiojiri

Gifu prefecture Ena Gifu Gujo Hida Minoshi Nakatsugawa Takayama Aichi prefecture Inuyama Nagoya Toyota

Kansai

Shiga prefecture Higashiomi Hikone Omihachiman Kyoto Amanohashidate Kamo Ine

Osaka Osaka Sakai Tondabayashi Hyougo prefecture Kobe Sasayama Toyooka

Mie prefecture Ise Kameyama Nara prefecture Ikoma Katsuragi Uda Wakayama prefecture Wakayama

Chūgoku

Tottori prefecture Kurayoshi Misasa Shimane prefecture Matsue Ooda Tsuwano

Okayama prefecture Kurashiki Okayama Takahashi Hiroshima prefecture Fukuyama Onomichi Kure

Yamaguchi prefecture Hagi Iwakuni Shimonoseki Yamaguchi

Shikoku

Tokushima prefecture Iya valley Wakimachi, Mima

Kagawa prefecture Kotohira Shodoshima Island Takamatsu

Ehime prefecture Ainan Matsuyama Uchiko

Kyūshū & Okinawa

Fukuoka prefecture Fukuoka Dazaifu & Onojo Saga prefecture Karatsu Saga Nagasaki prefecture Nagasaki

Oita prefecture Beppu Usuki Kumamoto prefecture Kumamoto Yamato, Misato & Mifune Miyazaki prefecture Nichinan Hyuga

Kagoshima prefecture Chiran Kagoshima Okinawa prefecture Taketomi, Yaeyama