# Travel Destinations | Japan Voyage Travel

- [Michi-no-Eki Kaki-no-Sato Kudoyama](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/michi-no-eki-kaki-no-sato-kudoyama): Wakayama, Michi no eki. A roadside station at the foot of Mt. Koya in Kudoyama, a gateway to the Koya pilgrimage routes, with a farm market, a bakery-cafe, and a persimmon soft serve made from the town's prized Fuyu kaki.
- [Wakayama Marina City](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/wakayama-marina-city): Wakayama, Attraction. An artificial island resort featuring the Mediterranean-themed Porto Europa park, Kuroshio Market fish market, and onsen facilities.
- [Kimii-dera](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/kimii-dera): Wakayama, Temple. A hillside temple founded in 770, the second stop on the Saigoku Kannon pilgrimage, reached by 231 stone steps and known for some of Kansai's earliest cherry blossoms.
- [Awashima Shrine](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/awashima-shrine): Wakayama, Shrine. A seaside shrine in Kada dedicated to Sukunahikona, associated with women's health and known for the thousands of dolls left here for memorial services.
- [Sandanbeki](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/sandanbeki): Wakayama, Attraction. Towering 50-meter sea cliffs along the Shirahama coast with an elevator descending to a cave once used by Kumano pirates.
- [Shirahama Beach](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/shirahama-beach): Wakayama, Beach. One of Japan's most famous beaches, known for its pristine white sand and crystal clear waters on the Kii Peninsula.
- [Fudarakusan-ji](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/fudarakusan-ji): Wakayama, Temple. A small Tendai temple by Nachi beach, a branch of Seiganto-ji, where monks once set out in small boats for Fudaraku, the paradise of Kannon believed to lie across the southern sea, and did not come back. A reconstruction of one of the boats stands in the grounds. It is one of the component parts of the Kii Mountain Range World Heritage property. Free, 3 minutes from JR Nachi Station.
- [Ryujin Onsen](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/ryujin-onsen): Wakayama, Onsen. A mountain hot spring town in the former Ryujin village of Tanabe, counted among Japan's three beauty waters for its smooth sodium bicarbonate spring.
- [Tomogashima](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/tomogashima): Wakayama, Island. A cluster of uninhabited islands in the Kitan Strait off Wakayama, where overgrown Meiji-era gun batteries and brick tunnels swallowed by forest have earned it the nickname 'the Castle in the Sky island.' Reached by ferry from Kada Port, with a 2.5 to 4 hour hiking loop past the famous No. 3 Battery ruins and a white Western-style lighthouse.
- [Adventure World](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/adventure-world): Wakayama, Theme park. A sprawling safari park, zoo, and marine park in Shirahama combining wildlife encounters with amusement rides.
- [Wakayama Castle](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/wakayama-castle): Wakayama, Castle. A reconstructed hilltop castle originally built in 1585, offering panoramic views over Wakayama city and surrounding mountains.
- [Hashigui-iwa](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/hashigui-iwa): Wakayama, Landmark. A striking natural monument of roughly 40 rock pillars stretching 850 meters into the sea near Kushimoto.
- [Yunomine Onsen](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/yunomine-onsen): Wakayama, Onsen. A tiny, steam-wrapped hot-spring hamlet near Kumano Hongu, home to Tsuboyu, a rock-cut riverside tub said to be the only World Heritage bath you can actually soak in.
- [Kawayu Onsen](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/kawayu-onsen): Wakayama, Onsen. A riverside hot spring near Kumano Hongu where hot water wells up through the gravel of the Ōtō River, so visitors can scoop out their own open-air bath; in winter a huge communal 'Sennin-buro' is dammed up for free bathing.
- [Dojo-ji](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/dojo-ji): Wakayama, Temple. The oldest temple in Wakayama, famed for the tragic Anchin-Kiyohime bell legend and for the lively 'e-toki' picture-storytelling that recounts it to visitors.

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Last updated: 2026-11-10