The Arishayama-Sagano bamboo gardens are an ethereal world, nestled along a mountainside in western Kyoto. Despite their height, many of these bamboos are only two years old.
The Fushimi-Inari shrine near Kyoto, which features thousands of vermillion Torii gates, including several spectacular tunnels of gates leading up a 700-foot hill.
The huge Torii gate at Itsukushima Shrine, a World Heritage site, on Miyajima Island off the coast of Hiroshima.