Detourmap
Places worth the detour in Japan
Detourmap lists 1,259 places in Japan, across 2 kinds of detour; nature & landscapes are the largest group (754). Best known: Mount Fuji. 996 rank as little-known. Click any card to open it on the map.
- Places
- 1,259
- Oldest here
- Lake Biwa 4 million years ago
- Little known
- 996 of 1,259
- City pages
- 18
By region
18 first-level divisions of Japan have enough places for a page of their own.
By city
18 cities in Japan have enough places for a page of their own.
Nature & landscapes in Japan 754
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5.Iwo Jima
Nature · Renowned
Island of the Japanese Volcano Islands chain south of the Ogasawara Islands, site of the 1945 Battle of Iwo Jima
Archaeological & historic sites in Japan 505
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2.Hashima Island
Archaeological · Renowned
Abandoned island lying about 15 kilometres (9 miles) from the city of Nagasaki, in southern Japan. Abandoned concrete buildings and the surrounding sea wall.
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4.Japan Air Lines Flight 123
Archaeological · 20th century · Notable
1985 aviation accident in Japan
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6.Urakami Cathedral
Archaeological · 19th century · Notable
Roman Catholic church located in Nagasaki, Japan
Questions about this page
What is the best known place worth the detour in Japan?
Mount Fuji. Volcano in Yamanashi and Shizuoka Prefectures, Japan. It leads because more Wikipedia language editions cover it than any other place here.
How many places worth the detour are there in Japan?
1,259: 754 nature & landscapes and 505 archaeological & historic sites. 996 of them are little known — they carry a Wikipedia article in only a handful of languages.
What is the oldest place on this map in Japan?
Lake Biwa, dated to 4 million years ago. 177 of the 1,259 places here carry a founding date at all, and 84 of those predate the year 1000.
Where does this information come from?
Every place is drawn from Wikidata (CC0), with photographs from Wikimedia Commons and a link to its English Wikipedia article. Selection is deterministic: a place is here because Wikidata files it under one of the classes this atlas carries and it has coordinates, a photo and an article. Nothing is written or chosen by an AI, and the ranking is simply how many Wikipedia language editions cover a place.