# Travel Destinations | Japan Voyage Travel

- [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.
- [Danjo Garan](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/danjo-garan): Wakayama, Temple. One of the two sacred centres of Koyasan, a sanctuary of halls and gates around the vermilion Konpon Daito, a great pagoda enshrining a three-dimensional mandala of Buddhas.
- [Kumano Nachi Taisha](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/kumano-nachi-taisha): Wakayama, Shrine. One of the three Kumano Grand Shrines, perched on a mountainside next to Nachi Falls and Seiganto-ji's three-story pagoda, the most photographed view in the Kumano region.
- [Kumano Hongu Taisha](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/kumano-hongu-taisha): Wakayama, Shrine. The head shrine of over 3,000 Kumano shrines across Japan, serving as the spiritual endpoint of the Kumano Kodo pilgrimage trails.
- [Niutsuhime Shrine](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/niutsuhime-shrine): Wakayama, Shrine. The main shrine of old Kii Province, in the quiet Amano basin below Koyasan. By the shrine's tradition its goddess gave the mountain to Kukai, and pilgrims were expected to pray here before going up. It is one of the component parts of the Kii Mountain Range World Heritage property. Entry is free; buses from Kaseda Station run five times a day.
- [Nachi Falls](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/nachi-falls): Wakayama, Attraction. Japan's tallest single-drop waterfall at 133 meters, a sacred site of the Kumano pilgrimage for over a thousand years.
- [Jison-in](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/jison-in): Wakayama, Temple. A small Shingon temple by the Kinokawa river where, by tradition, Kukai's mother lived out her life because women were barred from Koyasan. Women still leave breast-shaped ema here. The 180th stone of the Koyasan Choishi-michi stands on the steps up to Niu Kanshofu Shrine just above it, and the temple is one of the component parts of the Kii Mountain Range World Heritage property. Free; 20 minutes on foot from Kudoyama Station.
- [Koyasan Choishi-michi](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/koyasan-choishi-michi): Wakayama, Trail. The old main pilgrim road up Koyasan, about 22 km from Jison-in in Kudoyama to the Konpon Daito, with a stone marker every 109 metres. Most of the markers were set up between 1265 and 1285. The path is part of the Kii Mountain Range World Heritage property. Allow six to seven hours; mostly unpaved forest trail.
- [Kumano Hayatama Taisha](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/kumano-hayatama-taisha): Wakayama, Shrine. The third of the three Kumano Grand Shrines, known for its striking vermilion buildings and an 800-year-old sacred nagi tree.
- [Seiganto-ji](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/seiganto-ji): Wakayama, Temple. The Tendai temple beside Kumano Nachi Taisha and the first stop of the Saikoku 33 Kannon pilgrimage, whose vermilion three-storied pagoda frames Nachi Falls in the most famous view in Kumano.
- [Doro-kyo Gorge](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/doro-kyo-gorge): Wakayama, Landmark. A steep-walled gorge on the Kitayama River in Yoshino-Kumano National Park, spanning the borders of Wakayama, Nara and Mie, visited by traditional riverboat cruises.
- [Porto Europa](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/porto-europa): Wakayama, Theme park. A theme park on the man-made island of Wakayama Marina City built to look like a Mediterranean port town, with rides, seasonal illuminations and free admission to the streets themselves.
- [Kumano Kodo](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/kumano-kodo): Wakayama, Attraction. UNESCO-listed ancient pilgrimage trails through sacred mountains, linking grand shrines of the Kii Peninsula.
- [Tore Tore Market](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/tore-tore-market): Wakayama, Market. One of western Japan's largest seafood markets where visitors can buy fresh fish, dine at seafood restaurants, and enjoy barbecue.
- [Engetsuto](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/engetsuto): Wakayama, Landmark. A small island in Shirahama Bay with a wave-carved hole through its center. During equinoxes, the sun sets directly through the arch.

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Last updated: 2026-11-12