https://5231ab59.roadside-japan.pages.dev/ The newest hidden gems, weird attractions, and seasonal events added to Cinnamon Land. en https://5231ab59.roadside-japan.pages.dev/attractions/sahoro-resort-bear-mountain https://5231ab59.roadside-japan.pages.dev/attractions/sahoro-resort-bear-mountain Tue, 11 Aug 2026 21:52:00 GMT Japan's first free-roaming brown bear safari — Ezo brown bears wander a fenced Hokkaido forest while visitors watch from an elevated glass walkway or a caged safari bus. https://5231ab59.roadside-japan.pages.dev/attractions/shigechan-land https://5231ab59.roadside-japan.pages.dev/attractions/shigechan-land Tue, 11 Aug 2026 07:40:00 GMT A private open-air art museum on a former Hokkaido pasture, its fourteen buildings named after body parts and packed with alien-like creatures built from driftwood, scrap, and bone. https://5231ab59.roadside-japan.pages.dev/attractions/kamuy-lumina https://5231ab59.roadside-japan.pages.dev/attractions/kamuy-lumina Mon, 10 Aug 2026 04:20:00 GMT A 1.2km night walk through the forest by Lake Akan, wired with lights, projection mapping, and sound into an Ainu legend you carry a glowing staff through — the world's first Lumina night walk inside a national park. https://5231ab59.roadside-japan.pages.dev/attractions/akan-ainu-kotan https://5231ab59.roadside-japan.pages.dev/attractions/akan-ainu-kotan Mon, 10 Aug 2026 04:10:00 GMT Hokkaido's largest Ainu settlement, a lakeshore street of 30+ carving and embroidery shops run by the roughly 120 people who live there, plus Japan's first theater built solely for Ainu dance. https://5231ab59.roadside-japan.pages.dev/attractions/shinei-no-oka-biei https://5231ab59.roadside-japan.pages.dev/attractions/shinei-no-oka-biei Sun, 09 Aug 2026 03:20:00 GMT A 360-degree hilltop lookout on Biei's back roads, roughly halfway between two train stations, with the Tokachidake mountains to the east and salvia and sunflower fields underfoot in summer. https://5231ab59.roadside-japan.pages.dev/attractions/ken-and-mary-tree-biei https://5231ab59.roadside-japan.pages.dev/attractions/ken-and-mary-tree-biei Sun, 09 Aug 2026 03:15:00 GMT A 90-plus-year-old poplar on a Biei hillside, named after the couple in a 1972 Nissan Skyline commercial filmed right beside it — now one of Hokkaido's most photographed trees. https://5231ab59.roadside-japan.pages.dev/attractions/seven-stars-tree-biei https://5231ab59.roadside-japan.pages.dev/attractions/seven-stars-tree-biei Sun, 09 Aug 2026 03:10:00 GMT A solitary Japanese oak on a Biei hillside that became a national icon in 1976 when it was printed on the Seven Stars cigarette pack — still standing alone on the Patchwork Road. https://5231ab59.roadside-japan.pages.dev/attractions/otagi-nenbutsuji-kyoto https://5231ab59.roadside-japan.pages.dev/attractions/otagi-nenbutsuji-kyoto Sun, 09 Aug 2026 02:20:00 GMT A quiet hillside temple above Arashiyama covered in 1,200 moss-flecked stone rakan statues, hand-carved between 1981 and 1991 by ordinary visitors, no two faces or expressions alike. https://5231ab59.roadside-japan.pages.dev/attractions/antarctic-ship-fuji-nagoya-port https://5231ab59.roadside-japan.pages.dev/attractions/antarctic-ship-fuji-nagoya-port Sun, 09 Aug 2026 02:15:00 GMT A retired Japanese Antarctic icebreaker, permanently moored at Nagoya Port since 1985 and left exactly as her crew left it — bunks, sick bay, barbershop, and all — now a ¥300 museum you can walk through top to bottom. https://5231ab59.roadside-japan.pages.dev/attractions/chojiya-tororojiru-mariko https://5231ab59.roadside-japan.pages.dev/attractions/chojiya-tororojiru-mariko Sun, 09 Aug 2026 02:10:00 GMT A working restaurant in the old Mariko post town that has served the same wild-yam tororo-jiru since 1596 — Shizuoka's oldest surviving eatery, painted by Hiroshige and name-dropped by Bashō. https://5231ab59.roadside-japan.pages.dev/attractions/kita-kouboh-biei https://5231ab59.roadside-japan.pages.dev/attractions/kita-kouboh-biei Sat, 08 Aug 2026 10:15:00 GMT A tiny self-roasting coffee shop in central Biei, Hokkaido, open since 1989 — shoes off at the door, long bar seating to watch the roast, and a signature blend cut with local low-pesticide soybeans. https://5231ab59.roadside-japan.pages.dev/attractions/sauna-fuji-nagoya https://5231ab59.roadside-japan.pages.dev/attractions/sauna-fuji-nagoya Wed, 05 Aug 2026 14:05:00 GMT A men-only capsule hotel and sauna deep in downtown Nagoya's Sakae district, built around a startling 20-meter, 110cm-deep cold plunge pool and 368 stacked capsule rooms, all wrapped in a lovingly kept Showa-era retro atmosphere. https://5231ab59.roadside-japan.pages.dev/attractions/heiwadori-kaimono-koen https://5231ab59.roadside-japan.pages.dev/attractions/heiwadori-kaimono-koen Mon, 03 Aug 2026 13:07:00 GMT Japan's first permanent pedestrian mall, a kilometer of car-free street running from Asahikawa Station lined with roughly 100 outdoor sculptures — including a 28-metre stainless-steel question mark. https://5231ab59.roadside-japan.pages.dev/attractions/gallery-purupuru https://5231ab59.roadside-japan.pages.dev/attractions/gallery-purupuru Mon, 03 Aug 2026 13:06:00 GMT A tiny art space run by Hiroshi Abe — the picture-book illustrator who spent 25 years as an Asahiyama Zoo keeper before becoming one of Japan's best-loved children's authors — with a new exhibition every couple of months. https://5231ab59.roadside-japan.pages.dev/attractions/asahikawa-ramen-village https://5231ab59.roadside-japan.pages.dev/attractions/asahikawa-ramen-village Mon, 03 Aug 2026 13:05:00 GMT Eight of Asahikawa's most famous ramen shops under one roof, plus a joke shrine with a torii gate where you can pray to the ramen gods. https://5231ab59.roadside-japan.pages.dev/attractions/nakahara-teijiro-sculpture-museum https://5231ab59.roadside-japan.pages.dev/attractions/nakahara-teijiro-sculpture-museum Mon, 03 Aug 2026 13:04:00 GMT A sculpture museum inside a Nationally Important Cultural Property — a 1902 Imperial Army officers' club — showing the work of Rodin-influenced sculptor Teijirō Nakahara alongside actual Rodin pieces. https://5231ab59.roadside-japan.pages.dev/attractions/asahikawa-design-center https://5231ab59.roadside-japan.pages.dev/attractions/asahikawa-design-center Mon, 03 Aug 2026 13:03:00 GMT A free furniture 'museum' where roughly 30 of Asahikawa's famed woodworking makers show off around 1,200 pieces in a UNESCO City of Design showroom-turned-gallery. https://5231ab59.roadside-japan.pages.dev/attractions/otokoyama-sake-brewery-museum https://5231ab59.roadside-japan.pages.dev/attractions/otokoyama-sake-brewery-museum Mon, 03 Aug 2026 13:02:00 GMT Free museum inside a working Hokkaido sake brewery with 350+ years of history — Edo-period brewing tools, ukiyo-e prints, and free tastings straight from the tanks. https://5231ab59.roadside-japan.pages.dev/attractions/kamuikotan-gorge https://5231ab59.roadside-japan.pages.dev/attractions/kamuikotan-gorge Mon, 03 Aug 2026 13:01:00 GMT A schist gorge where the Ishikari River carved house-sized potholes over 100 million years — and where Ainu legend says a god turned a demon to stone, marked today by an old rail line and a shrine. https://5231ab59.roadside-japan.pages.dev/attractions/kawamura-kaneto-ainu-memorial-museum https://5231ab59.roadside-japan.pages.dev/attractions/kawamura-kaneto-ainu-memorial-museum Mon, 03 Aug 2026 13:00:00 GMT Japan's oldest Ainu museum, opened in 1916 by a Kamikawa Ainu railway surveyor and still run by his family — 500 artifacts, a reconstructed thatched cise house, and live cultural performances. https://5231ab59.roadside-japan.pages.dev/attractions/solardraisine-ueberwaldbahn https://5231ab59.roadside-japan.pages.dev/attractions/solardraisine-ueberwaldbahn Wed, 29 Jul 2026 19:06:00 GMT A heritage rail line through the Odenwald forest that closed to trains in 1994 and reopened as a self-pedaled, solar-assisted rail-cart route through two tunnels and past four viaducts. https://5231ab59.roadside-japan.pages.dev/attractions/deutsches-elfenbeinmuseum-erbach https://5231ab59.roadside-japan.pages.dev/attractions/deutsches-elfenbeinmuseum-erbach Wed, 29 Jul 2026 19:05:00 GMT Europe's only museum devoted entirely to ivory carving, built into a Baroque castle in the Odenwald town that turned imported tusks into a 250-year craft tradition. https://5231ab59.roadside-japan.pages.dev/attractions/raellinge-abstatt https://5231ab59.roadside-japan.pages.dev/attractions/raellinge-abstatt Tue, 28 Jul 2026 11:10:00 GMT Thirty-nine oversized painted tomcat sculptures scattered across a small Swabian wine town, each hand-decorated by a different local club or business, born from a folk legend about lovesick young men who used to meow under women's windows. https://5231ab59.roadside-japan.pages.dev/attractions/burg-wildeck-abstatt https://5231ab59.roadside-japan.pages.dev/attractions/burg-wildeck-abstatt Tue, 28 Jul 2026 11:05:00 GMT A hilltop castle above the wine town of Abstatt that survived the Peasants' War and the Thirty Years' War, then quietly became a state-run vineyard laboratory breeding new German wine grapes. https://5231ab59.roadside-japan.pages.dev/attractions/cat-museum-lucky-field https://5231ab59.roadside-japan.pages.dev/attractions/cat-museum-lucky-field Sat, 25 Jul 2026 07:05:00 GMT A tiny, cat-themed rescue space in Kawasaki where Yoshino-san has taken in stray cats for 16 years — pay a small fee, get a cold drink, and sit quietly with cats who are still learning to trust people again. https://5231ab59.roadside-japan.pages.dev/attractions/fort-cascades-national-historic-site https://5231ab59.roadside-japan.pages.dev/attractions/fort-cascades-national-historic-site Wed, 22 Jul 2026 06:25:00 GMT A quiet 1.5-mile loop trail through the earthworks and building footprints of an 1855 Army fort — built to guard the Columbia's toughest portage — now a National Historic Landmark with the vanished town of Cascades still underfoot. https://5231ab59.roadside-japan.pages.dev/attractions/fort-vancouver-national-historic-site https://5231ab59.roadside-japan.pages.dev/attractions/fort-vancouver-national-historic-site Wed, 22 Jul 2026 06:20:00 GMT A rebuilt 1825 Hudson's Bay Company fur-trading fort on its original footprint, with a working blacksmith shop, cannons flanking the gate, and live musket demonstrations under one stockade. https://5231ab59.roadside-japan.pages.dev/attractions/columbia-gorge-museum-stevenson https://5231ab59.roadside-japan.pages.dev/attractions/columbia-gorge-museum-stevenson Wed, 22 Jul 2026 06:15:00 GMT A regional history museum whose top floor holds the world's largest rosary collection — nearly 4,000 strands, from a pinhead-sized miniature to a 16-foot styrofoam giant, donated by everyone from a Boys Town founder to a young John F. Kennedy. https://5231ab59.roadside-japan.pages.dev/events/tachikawa-yokai-bon-odori https://5231ab59.roadside-japan.pages.dev/events/tachikawa-yokai-bon-odori Mon, 20 Jul 2026 09:10:00 GMT A three-day October festival at Tachikawa's GREEN SPRINGS complex where thousands dress as yokai and dance around a bon-odori tower, capped by a nighttime 'Night Parade of 100 Demons.' https://5231ab59.roadside-japan.pages.dev/attractions/uwara-risokyo https://5231ab59.roadside-japan.pages.dev/attractions/uwara-risokyo Mon, 20 Jul 2026 03:25:00 GMT A 2.3-kilometer clifftop loop past a hand-carved tunnel, a bell for good luck, and a string of named capes above the Pacific — a rias-coast hike that starts five minutes from a train station.