Scenic jigsaw puzzles from Japan

500-piece scenic puzzles

Shirakawa-go in spring

Blossom surrounds a tiny paddy field as spring comes to this village in the northern Alps.

Randy Johnson's travel notes on Shirakawa-go

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A Yanoman puzzle: 500 pieces; 53 x 38 cm (21" x 15")
Code: Y05710 (05-710 on box)
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Bamboo pathway

A puzzler's puzzle! A stepped footpath climbs through the bamboo grove in Rakusai, Kyoto. There is a lot of green in this puzzle, in a gradation from the dark shadows among the bamboo trunks to the sunlit sky seen through the topmost fronds.

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A Road puzzle: 500 pieces; 52 x 38 cm (20" x 15")
Code: RS5580 (RS-55-80 on box)
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Murôji pagoda

Murôji is a mountain temple on the outskirts of Nara. As is the case with many temple buildings, this pagoda is built in the middle of woods, leaving no ideal viewpoint for photographing it. Here we peer up the stone steps flanked by colourful, if slightly moth-eaten rhododendrons.

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A Beverly puzzle: 500 pieces; 36 x 49 cm (14" x 19")
Code: B050118 (050-118 on box)
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Kôdai-ji

Neatly trimmed azalea bushes provide a colour contrast with the building housing the living quarters for this temple.

What does the name mean?

high

stand

temple

Born in Kyoto in 1941, Mizuno earned a degree in literature from Doshisha University in 1964. Since 1969 he has worked as a freelance photographer, in a lifelong quest to capture the essence of Japanese tradition in his native city, and resulting in publication of some one hundred books of his photographs.

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An Appleone puzzle: 500 pieces; 38 x 53 cm (15" x 21")
Code: A05172 (500-172 on box)
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Kyoto moss garden

Though officially known as Saihôji, this temple is better known as Kokedera, the "Moss Temple", because of its expansive gardens entirely carpeted in moss (120 species, we're told). The temple was originally founded in the eighth century, and the garden restored in 1339.

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A Road puzzle: 500 pieces; 52 x 38 cm (20" x 15")
Code: RS5586 (RS-55-86 on box)
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Magome post town in spring

Magome is the forty-third station on the old Nakasendo route (counting from Tokyo), and together with the forty-second (Tsumago) has been restored as a historical monument. It is easy to imagine how daunting this slope would have looked to travellers of centuries past, being the start of many uphill days.

The richly-varied textures will make this an enjoyable, and never tedious puzzle.

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A Beverly puzzle: 500 pieces; 49 x 36 cm (19" x 14")
Code: B75257 (75-257 on box)
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450 small pieces

Takayama

A well-preserved street in the old part of Takayama, in the northern Alps. The splendid display of wisteria graces the front of the Hisadaya restaurant, which has perhaps provided the colourful parasols. The next building is the Takashima crafts (kôgei) gift shop, so though preserved, the town is still alive.

Randy Johnson's travel notes on Takayama

This puzzle has smaller pieces than the standard size.

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An Epoch puzzle: 450 pieces; 38 x 26 cm (15" x 10")
Code: E08527 (08-527 on box)
Retail price ¥1200 (approx. US$13.95 €11.43 £9.30)
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Deleted puzzles

For reference: you can view all the 500-piece scenic puzzles that are out of print in the Attic.