# Travel Destinations | Japan Voyage Travel - [Meriken Park](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/meriken-park): Hyogo, Landmark. Kobe's main waterfront park with the red Kobe Port Tower, BE KOBE monument, and Kobe Maritime Museum. - [Arima Onsen](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/arima-onsen): Hyogo, Onsen. One of Japan's three oldest hot spring towns, renowned for its iron-rich golden waters and radium-infused silver waters. - [Kobe Kaientai Monument (The Kobe Moai)](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/kobe-kaientai-monument-the-kobe-moai): Hyogo, Landmark. A row of five moai-like stone statues facing Kobe's harbor in Meriken Park, dedicated to the young cadets of the 1860s Kobe Naval Training Center founded by Katsu Kaishu and Sakamoto Ryoma. It is a quirky, free photo spot near the Oriental Hotel. - [Himeji Castle](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/himeji-castle): Hyogo, Castle. Japan's best preserved feudal castle, a UNESCO World Heritage Site known as the White Heron Castle for its brilliant white exterior. - [Awaji Hanasajiki](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/awaji-hanasajiki): Hyogo, Park. A vast hillside flower park on northern Awaji Island with seasonal displays of canola, lavender, cosmos, and salvia covering 15 hectares with views across Osaka Bay. Free entry year-round. - [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. - [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. - [Ikuno Ginzan Silver Mine](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/ikuno-ginzan-silver-mine): Hyogo, Historic site. A silver mine worked from at least 1542 until 1973, now open as a walk-through tunnel of about a kilometre with Edo-period chisel marks and modern mining machinery. The tunnel stays at about 13°C all year, and the 1,200-yen ticket also covers the three on-site museums. - [Taisho Roman-kan](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/taisho-roman-kan): Hyogo, Historic site. Sasayama's old town hall, a pale wooden building from 1923 across from the castle, now selling local food and crafts, with a café and the town's tourist office. Free to enter. - [Tamba-Sasayama History Museum](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/tamba-sasayama-history-museum): Hyogo, Museum. Sasayama's old courthouse, built in 1891 and used until 1981, now a museum of armour, swords and guns from the domain, with the wooden courtroom kept as it was. ¥500. - [Sasayama Castle](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/sasayama-castle): Hyogo, Castle. The stone walls and moats of a castle built in 1609 on Tokugawa Ieyasu's orders, and the Ōshoin, its great hall, rebuilt in 2000. ¥500, or ¥1,000 with three more of the town's history sites. - [Tamba-Sasayama](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/tamba-sasayama): Hyogo, City. A castle town in the hills of eastern Hyogo, about an hour from Osaka: castle walls and a rebuilt palace hall, a samurai street, old merchant houses, and black soybeans in October. - [Anma Family Samurai House](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/anma-family-samurai-house): Hyogo, Historic site. A thatched samurai house on Okachimachi, the street where Sasayama's foot soldiers lived, with its rooms, kitchen and garden as they were. ¥500. - [Aoyama Rekishi-mura](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/aoyama-rekishi-mura): Hyogo, Museum. The villa and storehouses of the Aoyama family, lords of Sasayama from 1748 to the Meiji Restoration, now a museum of the domain's books, records and printing blocks. ¥500. - [Taiyo Park](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/taiyo-park): Hyogo, Attraction. A quirky theme park featuring full-scale replicas of world monuments including a Neuschwanstein-style castle, Moai statues, and Terracotta Warriors. Page 2 of 5. 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