Popular as the Shonan Coast cycling road, it’s a course from which you can really enjoy the Shonan coastline while gazing at Mt.Fuji from Chigasaki City’s Yanagishima coast to Fujisawa City's Kugenuma coast.

This event is held every year from early February to mid-March in the Yugawara Plum Grove (Makuyama Park). On the foot slope of "Makuyama" where magnificent natural scenery can be seen throughout the four seasons, approximately 4,000 red and white plum trees bloom like a carpet of plum blossoms, and fill the park with the fragrance of plum blossoms, allowing you to enjoy a "plum blossom banquet".Mt. Makuyama has roughly 4,000 plum trees that bloom red and white. The park holds its Umenoen event, a plum blossom festival when the flowers reach their peak. The plum grove is lit up at night, offering a completely different scene from the day.

This shrine is located in Ninomiya's Azumayama Park. Oto Tachibana Hime no Mikoto, wife of the Japanese hero Yamato Takeru no Mikoto, cast herself into the ocean to quell its raging waters and pray for her husband's safety and success. Her comb drifted ashore and was buried in the place now known as Azuma Shrine.

Directly connected to Yokohama Station, this expansive party stage boasts overwhelming scale in three sumptuous rental spaces. It can cater to every kind of party and banquet including social gatherings, farewell and welcome parties, exhibitions, seminars, presentations and so on in a manner that only a production venue can.

All staff at Midori Nouen love farming, want to make farming more fun, and believe in the power of farming. They grow strawberries of the Tochiotome and Tochi-Aika breeds, as well as asparagus and buckwheat. They prepare the soil using fully matured compost called Midori Compost and locally produced powder bamboo compost. The temperature around the farm fluctuates a lot and sometimes goes down to -8ºC. This makes vegetables grow while increasing their sweetness and tastiness in order to withstand the cold. Midori Nouen’s Tochi-Aika received the gold prize at the First National Strawberry Awards hosted by the Japan Vegetable Sommelier Association. At the shop on the farm, you can purchase not only strawberries but also processed products including strawberry jam, strawberry puree, and popcorn.

Selected as the only one for Japan in "CNN’ Top 10 Dream destinations for 2014" the Ashikaga Flower Park will be holding its "The Tale of the Wisteria~ Large Wisteria Festival".   The size of the park is a substantial 94,000㎡, and boasts over 350 wisteria trees, allowing visitors to enjoy the sheer abundance of the beautiful flowers in bloom. Various colors of wisteria bloom in order, from pale pink, purple, white, to yellow,which allows you to enjoy all of the wisterias for about one full month.   A wisteria shelf spanning 1,000㎡ is for the 150 year old large wisteria tree with a 80m long tunnel of white wisterias. An extremely rare double-petal wisteria shelf, and the white wisteria tunnel.   It has also a beautiful light-up wisteria at night.  

The restaurant space houses five permanent restaurants and a total of 34 temporary restaurants working in rotation, with 8-10 open on any given day. In addition to an exclusive special dumpling menu, the souvenir corner offers frozen gyoza dumplings from all 35 outlets as well as gyoza-inspired sweets and goodies.

The annual Sunflower Festival is held at the outskirts of Mashiko Town every second week of August . The fields are about 10 hectares in size for the sunflowers. Entrance and parking is free.  

The Miya Cycle Station is a cycling terminal under the management of the city of Utsunomiya. The terminal offers rental cycles including hybrid bikes， road bikes and Mini Velo (small wheeled) bikes as well as information for tourists. The facilities include free toilets in the rest area and shower rooms and lockers (subject to reasonable charges). The terminal also holds a variety of events for cyclists such as seminars on sports cycling.

Warmth will spread throughout your body as you choose from 6 natural hot springs (onsen), 6 different baths, and two types of sauna. Enjoyable alone or with your family, let your exhaustion just melt away.

On December 6th the Yamabushi (ascetic monks) in their traditional clothing pray for peace and tranquility across the country. They carry out Yamabushi-Mondou, a Buddhist ceremony in which questions in relation to Buddhism are both asked and answered.After this, they participate in the Hiwatari (fire-crossing) Ceremony, which involves the monks walking over glowing embers and praying for sound health. Firefighters, workers of the thermal power generation industry, and people of other fire-related professions come to this shrine both to worship and buy ofuda (amulets).

This temple belongs to the Soto sect. Its honzon (principal images of Buddha) are Shakamuni-butsu, Genza Dojo Honzon (seated Buddha), and Yakushi Ruriko Nyorai. The interior of the main hall is mainly comprised of tatami mats. Surrounded by mountains on three sides, here one can gain a flavor of the four seasons in a quiet environment.

Surrounded by bamboo groves, this quiet park is a place for relaxation. In spring, a weeping cherry blossom party is held when the trees are in bloom. The contrast of pink and green during the day and the weeping cherry blossoms illuminated at night are fantastic. The trees are usually illuminated in late March or early April. Please check before you go.The weeping cherry blossoms are usually lit up from late March to early April. We recommend that you check before visiting.

A long standing dye shop established in 1833, where craftsmen of the Edo Bakufu worked. The Tairyo-bata of Misaki is one of the Top 100 Picks of Kanagawa’s Local Specialties. Each and every one of the flags are handmade with traditional techniques passed down from the Edo Period and is used not only to celebrate a new ship, but other happy events such as marriage, childbirth, children’s festivals, and one’s 60th birthday. How about making your very own?

The Iwaikaigan Summer Festival is also designated as an important traditional cultural event of Manazuru Town. The Manazuru Summer Color Festival is held in conjunction with this festival. The festival features lantern floating, fireworks over the sea, Bon Odori dancing, and food and drink booths, allowing visitors to enjoy the nostalgic traditions of Manazuru Town on a summer night.

In the park, there’s a golf course and a barbecue pit where everyone young and old can enjoy themselves. At the tip of the park, there is an observatory where you can enjoy a view of Hatsushima island and Oshima island.

Yokohama is full of stylish photospots for hakama outfits. In just 1-10 minutes, you can walk from our shop to Yokohama tourist attractions like the Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse, Yamashita Park, Yokohama Chinatown, and Osanbashi International Passenger Terminal. We offer approximately 80 hakama-specific kimonos in various colors and patterns for you to choose from. Hakama come in five classic colors (crimson, purple, green, navy, black), plus embroidered, pastel, and gradient designs. Lace-up boots, bags, and frilled parasols are also available for free rental.

Sojiji is the headquarters of the Soto sect. The steel-reinforced concrete gates at the entrance is Japan’s largest. The Nio (two Deva kings) that is modeled on Kitano Umi (Sumo wrestler) is standing inside.