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

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

Itsukushima Shrine · photo 1

ClásicoHatsukaichi, Hiroshima

Itsukushima Shrine

A great torii that 'floats' on the sea at high tide: a mythical world between the tides

Chichibugahama · photo 1

De modaMitoyo, Kagawa

Chichibugahama Beach

'Japan's Uyuni': a sky mirror on the tidal flats at low tide

Adachi Museum of Art · photo 1

Rincón ocultoYasugi, Shimane

Adachi Museum of Art

Ranked 'Japan's number-one garden' for twenty-three years running: a living landscape scroll

Shimonada Station · photo 1

Rincón ocultoIyo, Ehime

Shimonada Station

An unstaffed little station facing the Iyo Sea: waiting here for a tangerine-coloured dusk

Iya Valley · photo 1

Rincón ocultoMiyoshi, Tokushima

Iya Valley and the Vine Bridge

One of Japan's three great hidden regions: crossing a swaying vine bridge into the legend of the fleeing Heike

Tomonoura · photo 1

Rincón ocultoFukuyama, Hiroshima

Tomonoura

The harbour that inspired Hayao Miyazaki: the jōyatō lantern of an Edo-period 'tide-waiting port'

Fukiya · photo 1

Rincón ocultoTakahashi, Okayama

Fukiya Furusato Village

Birthplace of 'Japan Red': a copper-mining town dyed red with bengara

Iwami Ginzan · photo 1

Rincón ocultoŌda, Shimane

Iwami Ginzan Silver Mine

The silver silence of a World Heritage Site: cycling through a street of samurai residences

Festival de fuegos artificialesHatsukaichi, Hiroshima Prefecture

Miyajima Underwater Fireworks

A dreamlike display where hemispherical 'underwater fireworks' rise from the sea against the Great Torii of Itsukushima Shrine, a World Heritage…

Tokushima Awa Odori

Fiesta de veranoTokushima

Tokushima Awa Odori

11–15 de agosto de 2026

A 400-year-old 'fools' dance' — 'the dancers are fools and the watchers are fools; if we're all fools, we might as well dance' — tens of thousan…

Hiroshima okonomiyaki

GastronomíaHiroshima, Japan

Hiroshima okonomiyaki

Layers of batter, cabbage, pork and noodles — after the atomic bomb, it was what kept Hiroshima fed.

Benesse House

De modaNaoshima, Kagawa

Naoshima

An art island in the Seto Inland Sea: Tadao Andō's architecture, Monet's water lilies at the Chichu Art Museum, and light on the sea.

The Kagura-den and its giant shimenawa rope at Izumo Taisha

ClásicoIzumo, Shimane

Izumo Taisha

The shrine of Ōkuninushi, god of good relationships: a giant shimenawa rope and the myth of 'handing over the land'.

The south side of the Atomic Bomb Dome

ClásicoNaka, Hiroshima

Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park and the Atomic Bomb Dome

After 6 August 1945, the only building left standing near the hypocentre: a ruin that reminds the world of peace.