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Sweet Shop and Creative Japanese Confectionery Workshop Basho-an

This Japanese confectionery shop is located in Takimi Koji, a recreation of a retro Japanese streetscape. It has remained popular by preserving the traditional production methods used since its founding in 1868. Its specialty is Honzukuri Shoraibimochi. Cooked in a direct-flame kettle, this warabi mochi has an irresistibly springy, jiggly texture. The stone-mill experience is also popular, allowing customers to grind premium Tanba black soybeans into kinako themselves. The warabi mochi tastes even better coated in this freshly ground, aromatic soybean flour.

• Umeda, Osaka Station, Nakanoshima Area (Kita)
• Cafés

Echizen Soba no Sato

A multi-purpose facility operated by Takefu Seimen, founded in the Taisho era and marking its 100th anniversary in 2025, and known as the birthplace of Echizen soba. Enjoy carefully crafted Echizen soba made from buckwheat grown on large company-owned farms in Fukui and Hokkaido and milled in-house.

• Fukui
• Experiences Facilities

Kumano Hongu Taisha

Kumano Hongu Taisha was founded during the reign of Emperor Sujin, Japan's 10th emperor, and enshrines Ketsumimiko-no-Okami as its principal deity. It was designated a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Site in 2004. Since ancient times, the shrine has attracted worshippers from all levels of society, including aristocrats, samurai, and commoners. So many pilgrims traveled here from across Japan in long processions that the sight was likened to a line of ants and called the “Ant Pilgrimage to Kumano.”

• Wakayama
• Shrines & Temples

Aeon Mall Wakayama

This largest shopping center in Wakayama Prefecture with over 150,000 ㎡ space attracts many local customers as well as shoppers from the Sennan and Hannan areas in Osaka. The center can be reached via an easy access from the Hirai Ramp on the Daini-Hanwa National Highway and is only a 40 minute drive from Kansai Airport.

• Wakayama
• Commercial Buildings

Mikimoto Pearl Island

In 1893, Kokichi Mikimoto succeeded in culturing pearls on this island for the first time in the world. You can visit the Pearl Museum and Kokichi Mikimoto Memorial Hall, and watch demonstrations by women divers in the sea.

• Mie
• Museums

Oharai Machi, Okage Yokocho

In front of the Inner Shrine of Ise Jingu Shrine, there's a street called Oharai Machi that bustles with numerous worshippers every year. From the Edo Period to early Meiji Period, many people called Onshi lived here and performed Shinto dance and music for their worshippers (Oharai), thus, the name Oharai Machi is believed to have come about.

• Mie
• Shopping Streets

Tokyo Disneyland

Known and loved as the “kingdom of dreams and magic”, this full-scale themepark is just a 15 min. train ride from Tokyo Station.

• Chiba
• Amusement Parks & Theme parks

Canal City Hakata

On the vast 43,500m² premises, a shopping mall, movie complex, theater, amusement park and two hotels cluster. Its symbol, a 180m-long canal, crosses along the center of the space lined with colorful buildings.

• Hakata, Tenjin, Ohori
• Commercial Buildings