# Travel Destinations | Japan Voyage Travel - [Mount Yoshino](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/mount-yoshino): Nara, Attraction. Japan's most celebrated cherry blossom viewing site, with approximately 30,000 cherry trees covering the mountainside in four distinct zones from base to summit. - [Heijo Palace Site](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/heijo-palace-site): Nara, Historic site. The ruins of the imperial palace of the Nara-period capital, a UNESCO World Heritage Site with a reconstructed Suzakumon gate and Daigokuden hall. - [Mount Wakakusa](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/mount-wakakusa): Nara, Mountain. A 342-metre grass-covered hill at the eastern edge of Nara Park, known for its wide views over the city and its annual grass-burning festival. - [Muroji](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/muroji): Nara, Temple. Known as Women's Koya for welcoming female worshippers when Mount Koya banned them, this mountain temple features Japan's smallest outdoor five-story pagoda amid towering cedar trees. - [Yoshiki-en](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/yoshiki-en): Nara, Garden. A quiet Japanese garden beside the Isuien garden near Nara Park, made up of a pond garden, a moss garden and a tea-flower garden. - [Tsubosakadera](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/tsubosakadera): Nara, Temple. A Shingon temple in Takatori, the sixth stop of the Saigoku Kannon pilgrimage, known for a Kannon linked to eye ailments and large outdoor stone statues. - [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. - [Hasedera](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/hasedera): Nara, Temple. The head temple of the Shingon Buzan school, set on a hillside in Sakurai and known for its covered stairway and thousands of peonies. - [Omiwa Shrine](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/omiwa-shrine): Nara, Shrine. One of Japan's oldest shrines, which has no main sanctuary because Mount Miwa behind it is worshipped as the deity. - [Michi-no-Eki Yoshinoji Oyodo i-Center](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/michi-no-eki-yoshinoji-oyodo-i-center): Nara, Michi no eki. A roadside station on Route 169 in Oyodo, a gateway to the Yoshino mountains and their cherry blossoms, with a farm-produce shop, a restaurant, and a soft serve made from Oyodo's sun-dried bancha and sencha tea. - [Nara National Museum](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/nara-national-museum): Nara, Museum. Japan's second-oldest national museum, on the edge of Nara Park between Kofuku-ji and Todai-ji. Its Buddhist Sculpture Hall is closed for renovation from September 2026 until around spring 2028, so for now the draw is the free statue selection in the Bronze Gallery and, from 24 October to 9 November 2026, the 78th Shosoin Exhibition. - [Ikoma Sanjo Amusement Park](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/ikoma-sanjo-amusement-park): Nara, Amusement park. A small, old-fashioned amusement park on the 642 m summit of Mount Ikoma, opened by Kintetsu in 1929 and reached by the Ikoma Cable Car. Entry is free and rides cost 300 to 1,000 yen. Its 1929 flying tower is often called Japan's oldest large ride still standing. Mostly for families with young children; closed on Thursdays and from early December to early March. - [Fujiwara Palace Site](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/fujiwara-palace-site): Nara, Historic site. The site of the palace at the centre of Fujiwara-kyo, Japan's capital from 694 to 710, which Nara Prefecture describes as the country's first full-scale capital laid out on the Chinese grid model. Today it is a wide grass field with a few rows of red pillars, the three Yamato mountains on the horizon, and fields of rapeseed (late March to early April), lotus (mid-July to early August) and cosmos (October). Free, flat and shadeless, and about 30 minutes on foot from the nearest stations. - [Hannya-ji](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/hannya-ji): Nara, Temple. A temple on the hill north of Todai-ji, known in Nara as the cosmos temple: about 150,000 cosmos of some 30 varieties bloom among its stone Buddhas in October. Behind the flowers is a 1253 stone pagoda and a National Treasure gate. It is a 12-minute bus ride from central Nara, cash only, and busy on autumn weekends. - [Hokki-ji](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/hokki-ji): Nara, Temple. A small temple among fields on the north-east edge of Ikaruga. Its three-storey pagoda, finished in 706, is the oldest of its kind in Japan and part of the Horyu-ji World Heritage listing. There is not much else inside the wall. Come for the walk out from Horyu-ji and, from mid-October to early November, the cosmos planted around the pagoda. Page 2 of 6. Previous page: https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations.md?page=1&prefecture_id=29 Next page: https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations.md?page=3&prefecture_id=29 --- Source: [Travel Destinations | Japan Voyage Travel](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations?page=2&prefecture_id=29) Last updated: 2026-10-30