# Travel Destinations | Japan Voyage Travel

- [Meiji Shrine](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/meiji-shrine): Tokyo, Shrine. Shrine dedicated to Emperor Meiji and Empress Shoken, set within a 70-hectare evergreen forest in central Tokyo.
- [Iwatayama Monkey Park](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/iwatayama-monkey-park): Kyoto, Attraction. Climb the forested slopes of Iwatayama mountain to encounter over 120 wild Japanese macaques roaming freely, with panoramic views of Kyoto as your reward at the summit.
- [Shitennoji](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/shitennoji): Osaka, Temple. Japan's oldest officially administered Buddhist temple, founded in 593 AD by Prince Shotoku, featuring a classic garan layout with a five-story pagoda.
- [Kabukicho](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/kabukicho): Tokyo, Neighborhood. The name is a leftover from a plan that never happened. After the 1945 firebombing flattened this corner of Shinjuku, the rebuilding scheme included a kabuki theatre as the centrepiece. The theatre was never built. The name stuck to the entertainment district that filled the space instead. What grew there is roughly 35 hectares of bars, hostess clubs, karaoke, cinemas, love hotels and pachinko, packed into a grid dense enough that the neon reflects off the wet street in every direction. The Godzilla head mounted on the eighth floor of the Toho building has become the standard meeting point, and it roars on the hour. Kabukicho Tower opened in 2023 at the western edge, 225 metres of hotel, live music venue, arcade and a themed food hall that draws a younger and calmer crowd than the streets below. Robot Restaurant, which was in every guidebook for a decade, closed for good and did not come back after the pandemic. Do not go looking for it. A practical note, because it matters here more than anywhere else in Tokyo. Touts on the street offering cheap drinks or a free look at a club are the setup for a bill of tens of thousands of yen, and the police have been running campaigns about it for years. Nobody legitimate needs to stop you on the pavement. Ignore them, keep walking, and the district is as safe as the rest of Tokyo, which is very. There is a koban right at the main entrance. The good eating is in the side lanes rather than the main drag. Golden Gai, a five-minute walk east, is six alleys of tiny bars that seat six people each, many with a cover charge of 500 to 1,500 yen posted on the door. Omoide Yokocho on the far side of the station does grilled offal and beer under low ceilings. Ramen shops here run until dawn, which is the actual reason a lot of people are still out at four in the morning.
- [Shibuya Crossing](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/shibuya-crossing): Tokyo, Landmark. Shibuya's scramble crossing, where traffic stops every couple of minutes and people cross from all four corners at once, diagonals included. A local shopping-street association puts it at up to 3,000 people on one green light at peak.
- [Pontocho](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/pontocho): Kyoto, Neighborhood. One of Kyoto's most atmospheric streets, a narrow lantern-lit alley running along the Kamo River between Shijo and Sanjo, packed with traditional restaurants and tea houses.
- [Suma Beach](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/suma-beach): Hyogo, Beach. Kobe's most popular urban beach, a long stretch of white sand along Osaka Bay with views of the Akashi Kaikyo Bridge.
- [Munakata Grand Shrine](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/munakata-grand-shrine): Fukuoka, Shrine. Part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site of five component parts, including the three shrines of Munakata Taisha, dedicated to the three Munakata goddesses, guardians of maritime safety. The main Hetsu-miya shrine on the mainland is freely accessible, while the sacred island of Okinoshima, where approximately 80,000 ritual artifacts were discovered, remains off-limits to the general public.
- [Ibaraki City Museum of Christian Relics](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/ibaraki-city-museum-of-christian-relics): Osaka, Museum. A small municipal museum in the mountain hamlet of Senteiji, north of Ibaraki City, preserving relics of the "kakure kirishitan" (hidden Christians) who kept their faith in secret for over two centuries after Japan banned Christianity.
- [Kanazawa](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/kanazawa): Ishikawa, City. A preserved castle town with Kenrokuen Garden, samurai districts, geisha quarters, and 99% of Japan's gold leaf production.
- [Koyasan Okunoin](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/koyasan-okunoin): Wakayama, Temple. The most sacred site on Mount Koya, featuring Japan's largest cemetery along a mystical forest path to Kobo Daishi's mausoleum.
- [Nushima](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/nushima): Hyogo, Island. A 2.5-km island off the south coast of Awaji, traditionally identified as Onogoro-jima, the first land created by Izanagi and Izanami in the Kojiki creation myth. Reached by a 10-minute ferry from Doshima Port and walkable in a half day.
- [Gangoji](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/gangoji): Nara, Temple. A World Heritage temple and one of Japan's oldest, where remarkably some original roof tiles from its Asuka-period founding over 1,400 years ago remain in use today.
- [Ginkaku-ji](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/ginkaku-ji): Kyoto, Temple. A Zen temple famed for its elegant Silver Pavilion and meticulously raked sand garden reflecting moonlight.
- [D.T. Suzuki Museum](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/d-t-suzuki-museum): Ishikawa, Museum. A quiet museum in Kanazawa devoted to the Buddhist philosopher Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki, built around a water garden.

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Last updated: 2026-11-06