Since 2019, Shirobito, a Japanese online media platform specialising in castles, compiles an annual list of Japan’s top 20 ...

To find out more visit Japan Travel Castle Stays. The National Ainu Museum ... where the landscape of soft, clear water and and abundance of rice paddies has transformed the area into Japan ...

HIROSAKI, Aomori -- Snow-covered cherry blossom trees and a castle moat in this northern Japan city are currently ... when snow accumulates on the frozen water surface and cherry blossom tree ...

During Japan’s Sengoku “Warring States” era (1467-1615), castles were constructed, bolstered and fortified all across the Japanese archipelago, resulting in approximately 5,000 individual keeps.

Yet the focus of the FX-produced “Shogun” released earlier this year was much more occupied with the politics and history of the period than with the fish-out-of-water ... Japan’s 12 extant ...