# Travel Destinations | Japan Voyage Travel

- [Nara Park](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/nara-park): Nara, Park. Historic park home to over 1,000 freely roaming sacred deer and several UNESCO World Heritage temples.
- [Soni Kogen](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/soni-kogen): Nara, Park. A grassland plateau of about 38 hectares at the foot of Mount Kururuso, covered in pampas grass that turns silver and gold in autumn.
- [Tsukigase Plum Grove](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/tsukigase-plum-grove): Nara, Park. Around 10,000 red and white plum trees on both sides of the Nabari river gorge (called the Satsuki river here), at the eastern edge of Nara city near the Mie border. Nara city says it was among the first places named a Place of Scenic Beauty in 1922, alongside Nara Park and Kenroku-en. The trees bloom from mid-February into March. Entry is free; getting there is the effort, with about three buses a day from Nara.
- [Matabei-zakura](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/matabei-zakura): Nara, Park. A single weeping cherry in the hamlet of Hongo, Uda, said to be about 300 years old, 13 metres tall and over 3 metres round the trunk. It stands on a stone wall where, local tradition says, the warrior Goto Matabei spent his last years. It usually blooms from late March to early April, and outside those weeks there is nothing to come for. Expect photographers before sunrise and full car parks on weekends.

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Source: [Travel Destinations | Japan Voyage Travel](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations?destination_type=park&prefecture_id=29)
Last updated: 2026-11-13