# Travel Destinations | Japan Voyage Travel

- [Ine](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/ine): Kyoto, Historic site. The 'Venice of Japan', a fishing village with 230 traditional funaya boat houses lining a tranquil bay, offering a glimpse of timeless coastal life.
- [Manda Pit](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/manda-pit): Kumamoto, Historic site. A pit of the Mitsui Miike coal mine with its works still standing: an 18.8 m steel headframe from 1908, a brick winding house, and the bathhouse where miners washed off the coal dust. Coal came up here from 1902 to 1951. It belongs to the Miike Coal Mine and Miike Port part of the Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution, with the Miyanohara Pit and Miike Port just across the border in Omuta. Entry is 410 yen.
- [Sankeien Garden](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/sankeien-garden): Kanagawa, Garden. A spacious traditional Japanese garden built by silk merchant Hara Sankei, featuring 17 historic buildings relocated from across Japan including a Kyoto three-story pagoda.
- [Tobe Zoo](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/tobe-zoo): Ehime, Zoo. A large prefectural zoo in Tobe, near Matsuyama, that lays out its animal areas along the natural terrain of a hillside park.
- [Awara Onsen](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/awara-onsen): Fukui, Onsen. One of Hokuriku's most famous hot spring towns, known as the 'parlor of the Kansai region' for over 140 years.
- [Futarasan Shrine](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/futarasan-shrine): Tochigi, Shrine. The shrine of Mount Nantai, in the cedars a few minutes west of Tosho-gu, and owner of the vermilion Shinkyo bridge at the entrance to Nikko's shrine district. The grounds are free; the garden behind the main hall, with a bronze lantern from 1292 and a spring said to keep you young, costs 500 yen. One of the four parts of the Shrines and Temples of Nikko World Heritage property.
- [Iki](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/iki): Nagasaki, Island. A low, green island in the strait between Fukuoka and Tsushima, about 17 km from north to south. It has a 45 m sea stack shaped like a monkey, the moated Yayoi settlement of Harunotsuji and a shrine you can walk to only at low tide. Iki calls itself the birthplace of barley shochu.
- [Imabari Castle](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/imabari-castle): Ehime, Castle. One of Japan's finest sea castles, built by master architect Todo Takatora in 1602, with a moat filled with seawater where fish and rays swim.
- [Kakunodate](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/kakunodate): Akita, Historic site. Known as the 'Little Kyoto of Tohoku', this beautifully preserved samurai district features centuries-old weeping cherry trees and traditional black-walled warrior residences.
- [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.
- [Ozu Castle](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/ozu-castle): Ehime, Castle. A beautifully reconstructed castle built using traditional Edo-period wooden construction methods, overlooking the Hiji River in the charming town known as the Little Kyoto of Iyo.
- [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.
- [Sendai](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/sendai): Miyagi, City. Known as the City of Trees, Sendai is the largest city in the Tohoku region, famous for Date Masamune's castle ruins, the Jozenji-dori zelkova avenue, and delicious grilled beef tongue (gyutan).
- [Usa Jingu](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/usa-jingu): Oita, Shrine. The head shrine of all 40,000 Hachiman shrines in Japan, set in an ancient forest with distinctive vermillion architecture.
- [Awaji Yumebutai](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/awaji-yumebutai): Hyogo, Garden. An architectural complex on Awaji Island designed by Tadao Ando, with the terraced Hyakudanen garden and a large greenhouse.

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