Onomichi Temple and Townscape Walking Routes

An international art festival held across islands in the Seto Inland Sea. Launched in 2010, it integrates contemporary art, music, and video into a comprehensive cultural event. Twelve islands including Naoshima, Teshima, and Megijima serve as venues. The festival actuates the vision of revitalizing aging island communities as cultural hubs. Recognized by the Agency for Cultural Affairs as representing Japan's premier festivals with high international acclaim.

An historic port town in Onomichi, Hiroshima Prefecture, facing the Seto Inland Sea, featuring architecture spanning from Edo to Showa eras. Setting for numerous films and literary works, its many slopes and scattered temples create serene atmosphere. Attracting approximately 1 million visitors annually, it evokes nostalgia for traditional Japan.

Pilgrimage to Ise Grand Shrine became a massive popular phenomenon in the Edo period with the saying 'once in a lifetime, visit Ise.' Including the Okagehyokocho street food culture and famous Akafuku mochi, it remains a spiritual travel touchstone for Japanese people today.

A sacred site of mountain worship comprising Mount Haguro, Mount Gassan, and Mount Yudono. With over 1,400 years of history as a training ground for Shugendo asceticism, the mountain monks in white robes and their austere practices preserve Japan's mountain ascetic traditions.

One of Japan's oldest pilgrimage circuits, visiting 33 Kannon sacred sites mainly across the Kinki region. Said to have been established in 718, it is known alongside the Shikoku Pilgrimage as one of Japan's two great pilgrimage routes. It was designated a Japan Heritage in 2019.

Japan's oldest pilgrimage route visiting 33 Kannon temples across Kansai. Designated as Japan Heritage in 2019, it has gained popularity among young people alongside the goshuin stamp boom.

A successful anime pilgrimage case as the setting of 'Girls und Panzer.' Character panels line shopping streets, making it a model case of anime tourism revitalizing regional economies.