Botchan Karakuri Clock Tours

Overlooking Dogo Onsen, this peaceful Shinto temple comes alive during a New Year festival and observances during which devotees pray for water.

Soak in the natural thermal water and admire the architecture and period décor of the bathhouse that inspired the wonderful drawings of the animated film Spirited Away.

As one of the four haiku masters of Japan, poet Masaoka Shiki was a bright, yet fleeting, light in Japanese literature.

Pay your respects to the Buddha at a revered image, see dozens of stone lanterns and purchase good luck charms at a colorful temple dedicated to love and relationships.

Learn about the lives of members of a Japanese samurai clan via archaeological discoveries, recreations of residential buildings and the ruins of a medieval castle.

The excavated ruins and reconstructed samurai buildings of a 14th-century fortress are scattered around green lawns and moats in popular Dogo Park.