Japan's Ancient Tombs & Ruins

About this book

Two hundred real Japanese ancient sites — the giant keyhole tombs of Mozu and Furuichi, the first mound at Makimuku, the painted chambers of Kyushu, the stone circles of the Jomon north, the bronze hoards of Izumo, the rice fields of Toro, the gridded palaces of Nara and the shell middens that are also cemeteries — each told the same four ways, and told in depth: The Site & Its Story (what the place is, when it was made and by whom), What to Look For (the shape, chamber, museum case or view that repays attention), Walking the Site & Local Food (how to take the place on foot and what its district eats), and Visiting & Cautions (a practical outline, checked November 2026, never a promise).

Travel guides give you Daisen and Yoshinogari and stop. World Heritage books give you the listing and stop. This is the missing book: ancient Japan read from the ground itself, 200 sites, every entry over 200 words — in fact over 340 — at $9.99. Learn to read a keyhole from the ground, a layer from a trench, a capital from its lawn and foundation stones, and discover that a green hill in a suburb, kept by its fields for fifteen centuries, often teaches the age more honestly than a celebrated monument.

Written and created in Japan by Japanese author Aki Wakamatsu. Published by Takikawa TOKOTOKO Kids LLC, a Japanese publisher in Hokkaido, Japan. Authentic Japanese content, carefully made in Japan — not mass-produced.