The Ikuno Mine Office Carriage Road (Ikuno Kozanryo Bashamichi) – now the Silver Carriage Road (Gin...
This area, now a part of Himeji Port, was once known as the Shikamatsu Loading Wharf (Shikamatsu Monoageb...
This stone monument celebrates the completion of the Ikuno Mine Office Carriage Road (Ikuno Kozanryo Bash...
Tsujikawa is a post town along Gin no Bashamichi. The town was located at the intersection of the East-We...
The Miki residence w...
Yakatamachi was an i...
The post town of Nak...
The Takeuchi family ...
Ikuno Silver Mine us...
Ikuno mining town st...
Mikobata and Habuchi...
Mining in Mikobata began over 1,000 years ago. Alongside the neighboring mines of Akenobe and Ikuno, Miko...
Mouchet House was fi...
The Akenobe Mine Meishin Train was a six-kilometer electric railway built in 1929 to carry ore from Akenobe through t...
Operations at the Ak...
In 1573, gold was di...
The Kanzaki County Museum of History and Folklore offers visitors a historical overview of the Kanzaki district with ...
This memorial hall includes a rich exhibit of valuable material from the folklorist Kunio Yanagita, recipient of the ...
Referred to by Kunio Yanagita—a pioneer in Japanese folklore studies—as “the smallest house in Japa...
Fukusaki Town’s Mochimugi no Yakata specialty foods center includes a wide variety of mochimugi barley-related ...
The Miki Family moved to the Tsujikawa area of Fukusaki Town from Shikama-tsu (Shikama) in 1655. As the village offic...
Tsujikawa-machi is the birthplace of Yanagita Kunio (1875–1962), a fa...
Located about 18 km from Himeji Port off the coast of southwestern Hyogo Prefecture, the Ieshima Islands consist of 4...
The “Koderaso” Himeji City Rest Center is a little-known inn boasting a carbonated hot spring. The Center...
Tegarayama Central Park is a municipal park covering some 38 hectares. Built around the cenotaph for the city’s...
The six earthen white-walled buildings of the impressive Japan Toy Museum house a collection of toys representative o...
This Tendai sect temple is often referred to as the “Mount Hiei of the West” (in reference to the mountai...
Himeji Castle—a World Heritage Site and National Treasure site—is located in the heart of Himeji City. Th...
After the Meiji government nationalized the Ikuno Silver Mine, in an effort to increase silver production, the Gin no...
The Himeji City Museum of Art is located in a preserved Meiji Era building. This fashionable red brick building locat...
Designed to breathe new life into Himeji Port—the terminus of Gin no Bashamichi—this museum was created w...
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