Photo gallery of Japan, showing its unique culture and the contrasts between the thousand-year-old Kyoto city with its beautiful shrines and temples, and the vibrant, futuristic Tokyo lights and architecture – these makes Japan a heaven for photographers. Additionally, almost three quarters of Japan's land is either forest or mountains.

• Hokkaido, Otaru and Ebisu rock areas,...

• Hokkaido’s Biei minimalist snow...

• Hokkaido’s Eastern National Parks Birds

• Kyoto's Geikos

• Kyoto's shrines and temples, in...

• Mount Fuji Area, Japan

• Nagano snow monkeys, Jigokudani...

• Tokyo's futuristic lights and...