JAPAN

Japan

De las fiestas milenarias de Kioto a los campos de flores de Hokkaido: descubra el respeto japonés por los modales, las estaciones y los dioses.

Foto: Basile Morin · CC BY-SA 4.0

City guides

Empiece por una ciudad

Cada guía de ciudad incluye cronología, historias de personajes, lugares imprescindibles, fiestas y normas locales.

Dōtonbori at night, reflected in the canal

ClásicoChūō, Osaka

Dōtonbori

Under the neon of the Glico Running Man: the ultimate food battlefield for 'eating yourself bankrupt in Osaka'

Nara Park · photo 1

ClásicoNara, Nara

Nara Park

An ancient capital where 1,200 sacred deer roam: the thousand-year Heijō-kyō guarded by deer and the Great Buddha

Himeji Castle · photo 1

ClásicoHimeji, Hyōgo

Himeji Castle

'White Heron Castle', spreading its wings: Japan's first castle to become a World Cultural Heritage Site

Kiyomizu-dera · photo 1

ClásicoHigashiyama, Kyoto

Kiyomizu-dera

The courage of 'jumping off the stage at Kiyomizu', where the ancient capital looks back over a thousand years

Kinkaku-ji · photo 1

ClásicoKita, Kyoto

Kinkaku-ji

A three-storey pavilion clad in gold leaf, a Pure Land reflected in the Mirror Pond

The thousand torii of Fushimi Inari

ClásicoFushimi, Kyoto

Fushimi Inari Taisha

A vermilion tunnel woven from ten thousand torii: the god of commerce, guarded by fox messengers

Autumn hills and river around Arashiyama

ClásicoUkyō, Kyoto

Arashiyama Bamboo Grove

A 'tunnel of light' with sun filtering through the bamboo, its rustling chosen among the '100 Soundscapes of Japan'

Osaka Castle · photo 1

ClásicoChūō, Osaka

Osaka Castle

Toyotomi Hideyoshi's 'castle of the realm': Sengoku drama beneath roofs with golden shachi

Ninomaru Palace

ClásicoNakagyō, Kyoto

Nijō Castle

The Tokugawa shogunate's base in Kyoto: the Edo shogunate began here, and ended here.

Great Buddha Hall, Tōdai-ji

ClásicoNara, Nara

Tōdai-ji

The Great Buddha cast with the resources of a whole nation by Emperor Shōmu: the world's largest bronze Vairocana, seated in a huge wooden hall.

Uji Bridge at the entrance to the Inner Shrine

ClásicoIse, Mie

Ise Grand Shrine

Japan's foremost shrine, dedicated to Amaterasu: cross the Uji Bridge into two thousand years of forest and prayer.