# Travel Destinations | Japan Voyage Travel

- [Jigokudani Monkey Park](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/jigokudani-monkey-park): Nagano, Attraction. The world-famous site where wild Japanese macaques bathe in natural hot springs, especially photogenic in winter snow.
- [Kamikochi](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/kamikochi): Nagano, Attraction. Japan's premier alpine valley in the Northern Japan Alps, featuring the crystal-clear Azusa River, dramatic mountain panoramas, and well-maintained hiking trails through pristine wilderness.
- [Lake Suwa](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/lake-suwa): Nagano, Attraction. Nagano's largest lake, about 16 km round, with the hot-spring town of Kami-Suwa on its eastern shore and a lakeside path for walking and cycling. Every August 15 it holds one of Japan's biggest fireworks displays, and in hard winters the ice used to buckle into the omiwatari ridges, last seen in 2018.
- [Lake Nojiri](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/lake-nojiri): Nagano, Attraction. Nagano's second-largest lake after Suwa, near the Niigata border, where Naumann elephant fossils and tools left by people about 40,000 years ago have come out of the lakebed since the first dig in 1962. A museum on the shore shows the finds, and from May to October the lake fills with kayaks, SUP boards and a sightseeing boat.
- [Shimoguri no Sato](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/shimoguri-no-sato): Nagano, Attraction. A farming hamlet in the Toyama valley of southern Iida, its houses and potato fields spread over slopes of up to 38 degrees between about 800 and 1,100 meters. A narrow road climbs to it, vehicles 7 meters or longer are banned, and without a car you need a bus, then a taxi or a booked shared taxi.

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Source: [Travel Destinations | Japan Voyage Travel](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations?destination_type=attraction&prefecture_id=20)
Last updated: 2026-11-13