# Travel Destinations | Japan Voyage Travel - [Kyoto Tower](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/kyoto-tower): Kyoto, Landmark. Standing 131 meters tall in front of Kyoto Station, this candlestick-shaped tower has been a city landmark since 1964 with 360-degree views of the Kyoto basin. - [Ikaho Onsen](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/ikaho-onsen): Gunma, Onsen. Famous onsen town built around a 365-step stone staircase, known for its iron-rich 'golden waters' and scenic mountain setting. - [Iga-Ueno Castle](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/iga-ueno-castle): Mie, Castle. Rising above the legendary birthplace of ninja culture, Iga-Ueno Castle has Japan's tallest stone walls at 30 meters high. The elegant white-walled castle keep, reconstructed in 1935 using traditional methods, houses artifacts from the region's feudal past. Combined with the adjacent Ninja Museum where visitors can explore hidden doors and secret passages, this hilltop fortress offers a close look at the shadowy world of Japan's most famous covert warriors. - [Enryakuji Temple](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/enryakuji-temple): Shiga, Temple. A UNESCO World Heritage Site and headquarters of Tendai Buddhism, Enryakuji Temple sprawls across the summit of Mount Hiei with over 1,200 years of history. - [Kifune](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/kifune): Kyoto, Attraction. A scenic mountain village north of Kyoto famous for Kifune Shrine, dedicated to the water deity, and for summer kawadoko riverside dining platforms suspended over the Kifune River. - [Myokensan (Nose Myokensan)](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/myokensan-nose-myokensan): Osaka, Temple. Nose Myokensan is a Nichiren-sect temple at the 660-metre summit of Mount Myoken, on the border between Osaka and Hyogo prefectures. A branch hall of Tokyo's Shinnyo-ji, it enshrines Myoken Bosatsu, the deity of the North Star and Big Dipper. The grounds include the Seirei worship hall, a glass-and-steel building designed by architect Shin Takamatsu in 1998, and offer views over the Osaka plain that are popular during the autumn foliage. - [Sumoto Castle Ruins](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/sumoto-castle-ruins): Hyogo, Castle. A hilltop castle ruin on Awaji Island with Japan's oldest remaining concrete-built tenshu replica and sweeping views across the Seto Inland Sea to Shikoku. - [Nagoya Castle](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/nagoya-castle): Aichi, Castle. Castle with golden shachi roof ornaments and a faithfully reconstructed Honmaru Palace. - [Shioyasaki Lighthouse](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/shioyasaki-lighthouse): Fukushima, Landmark. Perched on a cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean in Iwaki, Shioyasaki Lighthouse is one of Japan's most scenic lighthouses. Built in 1899, the 27-meter tower offers panoramic views of the rugged Fukushima coastline. It was famously associated with singer Misora Hibari, whose monument stands nearby. A popular spot for sunrise watching. - [Yoyogi Park](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/yoyogi-park): Tokyo, Park. A large, mostly wooded park next to Meiji Shrine, built on the land that housed the athletes' village for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. Entry is free at any hour, the cherry trees fill the lawns with picnics in spring, and festivals set up across the road in the B area on many weekends. - [Zenigahama](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/zenigahama): Fukui, Beach. A rocky cove on the Echizen Coast with a free pebble swimming beach beside the Kochomon sea arch, plus a signposted set of "Daikoku's footprints" and a tide-spouting rock at the clifftop lookout just north. - [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. - [Kumihimo KOBE](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/kumihimo-kobe): Hyogo, Accommodation. A whole 120-year-old Japanese house in Kobe, rented to one group a day, with a private sauna in its Japanese garden by the garden designer Katsuo Saito. The house is registered as a national Tangible Cultural Property. A two-night stay is recommended, so that you live as if in a Japanese home rather than only touring the sights. Rice cooked on the okudo-san wood-fired stove, seasonal cooking, soba making, choosing ingredients locally, hand-rolled sushi and a sauna in the Japanese garden let you take in Japanese daily life and culture at an unhurried pace. - [Gotanjoji Temple](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/gotanjoji-temple): Fukui, Temple. A working Soto Zen training temple in the hills of Echizen City that became famous as the cat temple, home to around thirty rescued cats that roam the grounds freely, alongside a cat Buddha statue, cat fortune slips and a cat-themed temple seal. - [Heisenji Hakusan Shrine](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/heisenji-hakusan-shrine): Fukui, Shrine. A serene moss-covered shrine on the ruins of one of medieval Japan's largest temple cities, famous for its emerald moss carpet and ancient cedar-lined stone approach. Page 14 of 85. 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