Treasure Box Japan - Episode Guide

Treasure Box Japan: Aichi is a series of shorts by local community broadcasters. Each one captures culture, food or natural scenery in a way through their intimate local perspective.

Treasure Box Japan: Aichi is a series of shorts by local community broadcasters. Each one captures culture, food or natural scenery in a way through their intimate local perspective.

Treasure Box Japan: Aichi is a series of shorts by local community broadcasters. Each one captures culture, food or natural scenery in a way through their intimate local perspective.

Treasure Box Japan: Aichi is a series of shorts by local community broadcasters. Each one captures culture, food or natural scenery in a way through their intimate local perspective.

Treasure Box Japan: Aichi is a series of shorts by local community broadcasters. Each one captures culture, food or natural scenery in a way through their intimate local perspective.

Treasure Box Japan: Aichi is a series of shorts by local community broadcasters. Each one captures culture, food or natural scenery in a way through their intimate local perspective.

Treasure Box Japan: Aichi is a series of shorts by local community broadcasters. Each one captures culture, food or natural scenery in a way through their intimate local perspective.

Treasure Box Japan: Aichi is a series of shorts by local community broadcasters. Each one captures culture, food or natural scenery in a way through their intimate local perspective.

Treasure Box Japan: Aichi is a series of shorts by local community broadcasters. Each one captures culture, food or natural scenery in a way through their intimate local perspective.

Treasure Box Japan: Aichi is a series of shorts by local community broadcasters. Each one captures culture, food or natural scenery in a way through their intimate local perspective.

As you set foot on Wakayama Farm you're greeted by vast bamboo groves, home to over 20 different varieties. A spectacular canvas painted in the vivid golds and greens of myriad bamboo leaves.

Kanuma Autumn Festival, a UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage. Every year, intricately carved floats parade through the streets of Kanuma.

Lotus blossoms in rain, best seen in early summer, June and July, at Tsuganosato Park.

A natural monument in Tochigi City, the "Iwa weeping cherry." Nearly 400 years old, its delicate pink blossoms reach their peak each year in late March.

"Shimotsukare," a traditional Tochigi dish. Featuring root vegetables like radishes and carrots, fish heads and other leftovers; a much loved waste-not-want-not dish.

In Kuzuu, a leading area for quicklime production, frescos are being painted in an effort to enliven the town. One such fresco covers an entire wall of the Kuzuu Folk Art & Crafts Museum.

Every January at Mangan-ji Temple, local soba makers gather for a waterfall purification ritual. The "kanzarashi" soba served afterwards is a precious dish not available any other time of year.

Nakagawa's Festival of Lights features paper lanterns, traditional umbrellas and more, all lit up every night for a month in winter, shining a light of hope for the people.

Traditional colored washi paper called "Shimotsuke shibori" is used to make dolls known as "Shimotsuke-hitogata." Imbued with hopes and wishes, the dolls are floated down the river in a local event.

Postponed during the pandemic, the Utsunomiya Fireworks Festival is held again for the first time in three years. Watch these fireworks filled with hopes and dreams.

Based on Japanese mythology, Iwami Kagura dances feature lively music, gorgeous costumes and expressive masks. A dedicated artisan, making costumes for over 60 years, helps keep it alive.

At Miho Shrine in Mihonoseki, myths live on. A Shinto ritual featuring two long oared boats, also known as the splashing festival, is held there on December 3 each year.

In June, the hydrangeas bloom at Gesshoji Temple. A grave site for feudal lords since the 17th century, it's a national historic site, a place to hear the echoes of history.

Nisa Shrine has long been home to the Shinto gods. Each year on January 6, a ritual enacting the process of planting and harvesting of rice is held to pray for a bountiful harvest.

On cold winter mornings, Mt. Ryuo in Mihara, Hiroshima Prefecture offers mystical views of the inland sea. Sea fog forms as cooler air flows over the warm water's surface during the early hours of the day.

In Miyoshi, a city on the mountainous side of Hiroshima Prefecture, join our reporter as she goes door to door in search of homemade Japanese pickles—tsukemono! Make new friends and discoveries along the way.

Higashihiroshima is one of Japan's top three sake cities. Over 100,000 people attend its two-day sake festival every October. Check out the event and hands-on tours that will rejuvenate the town.

A couple in Jinsekikogen practices circular agriculture involving rice, vegetables and raising livestock. They employ graduates from a regional agriculture college to secure a future for their town.

Master potter Imai Masayuki set up a kiln in Takehara, where he lived in his teens. Over the years, he developed a unique inlay style incorporating nature motifs that lives on through his apprentices.

Experience four seasons of exceptional scenery at Itsukushima Shrine, a World Heritage Site commonly known as Miyajima.

Hiroshima Prefecture has two World Heritage Sites, the Atomic Bomb Dome and Itsukushima Shinto Shrine. Connecting both is a regional streetcar with over 100 years of history. Take a scenic ride through history.

The Shimanami Kaido is a 60-kilometer overwater expressway connecting six islands in the Seto Inland Sea with seven bridges. Visit four mountains nearby using popular trekking paths.

At a temple in Higashimatsuyama, an annual ceremony is held where people warm their behinds by a bonfire while eating sweets. It's a unique celebration based on a legend more than 1,000 years old.

Ogose is the birthplace of famous hand fans by the same name. Though in their heyday there were over 50 shops making them, only one artisan remains today. He kindly shows us how he handcrafts a fan.

In July 2023, Sayama held its centuries-old Star Festival at full scale for the first time in four years, with over a hundred handmade paper decorations, stalls with food and games, and fireworks.

Discover railway town Omiya, with its Railway Museum featuring trains of all sorts, as well as Omiya station, where visitors can watch bullet trains come and go from a dedicated observation spot.

The city of Gyoda has been producing tabi split-toe socks for around 300 years, and the tradition lives on today. Old tabi warehouses converted into a variety of shops add new appeal to the town.

A city's natural park contains spring water ponds and a dense forest that's home to precious plants and animals. Learn about local preservation efforts that have taken place for over 40 years.

Kiraigo—a masked play depicting salvation from hell—has been performed in a small Japanese district each summer for over 800 years, leaving masses of viewers in a wave of excitement.

In the middle of the night at Narita International Airport, 700 of the 15,000 aeronautical lights installed on runways undergo careful inspection in just four hours to ensure airline safety.

Futomaki sushi is a traditional food said to have originated in Chiba Prefecture, east of Tokyo. Learn how to make some with a plum blossom motif!

Contemporary artist Nagata Tetsuya has created a new art form using wooden wagashi molds and handmade washi. His reinvention of tradition has garnered acclaim both in Japan and abroad.

Overlooking Tokyo Bay, Mt. Nokogiri once thrived as a stone quarry site. Take a thrilling peek over a steep cliff and tour the mountainsides to find stone Buddhist images of varying size.

Every June and New Year, horses dressed in traditional garb are taken to a local shrine for a prayer ritual. Celebrating "life with horses," the event is a real treat for the eyes and ears.

The Sanriku Coast, one of the world's three largest fishing grounds, is home to a rich variety of fish that attracts many enthusiastic anglers. Watch skilled ones catch some fat greenlings.

As part of Motsuji Temple's annual January festival, a torch-lighting ritual is held for purification, followed by a competition over a lucky bag, and some mochi rice cake tossing for good luck.

A cultural museum offers regional tradition workshops and grows rice on its nature-rich property. Join us in picking and eating seasonal wild vegetables.

Every July, the Kumano Nachi Taisha Grand Shrine holds the Nachi Fire Festival, one of Japan's top three of its kind. The event involves transporting gods home to Nachi Waterfall on portable shrines.

Visit a village named Tenkawa (Heavenly River), where a serene river flows like the Milky Way. Tour a shrine of the same name where the goddess of water is enshrined, and a temple with a sacred spring.

Nara, Japan's capital back in the 8th century, is home to many temples with Buddhist statues believed to ward off calamity, and grant prosperity and good health. Join us in taking a tour of some.

In the Kii Mountains, a sacred area for ascetic practitioners, three shrines bearing the name of their region, Kumano, have been visited by followers since ancient times.

In May, the region of Yatsuo holds the Etchu-Yatsuo Hikiyama Festival where richly decorated floats parade through the streets. The moment when they're rapidly turned around is a sight to behold!

At the Iwase Hikiyama Festival held in May in the Iwase district, floats topped with ornate displays are pulled around town then made to collide into one another as an offering to the local deity.

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