# Travel Destinations | Japan Voyage Travel - [Nirayama Reverberatory Furnace](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/nirayama-reverberatory-furnace): Shizuoka, Historic site. Two pairs of furnaces under four brick chimneys about 15.7 m tall, built by the shogunate between 1854 and 1857 to cast cannons for the defence of Edo Bay. Iron and bronze guns were cast here until 1864. It is one of the 23 parts of the Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution World Heritage property. Entry is 500 yen, and a visit takes under an hour. - [Yanbaru](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/yanbaru): Okinawa, Region. The hilly, forested north of Okinawa Island, spread over the villages of Kunigami, Ogimi and Higashi. Its subtropical evergreen forest is the only home of the flightless Okinawa rail and the Okinawa woodpecker, and about 7,700 hectares of it make up the Northern part of Okinawa Island, one of the four areas of Amami-Oshima Island, Tokunoshima Island, Northern part of Okinawa Island, and Iriomote Island, a World Natural Heritage site inscribed in 2021. Come by car: buses are sparse and the best-known waterfall trail is closed. - [Toei Kyoto Studio Park](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/toei-kyoto-studio-park): Kyoto, Theme park. A theme park and active film studio in Uzumasa where you walk an Edo-period townscape used for real samurai-drama shoots, with costumed actors, ninja shows and hands-on transformations. - [Grinpa](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/grinpa): Shizuoka, Amusement park. A woodland amusement park high on the southern slopes of Mount Fuji at Susono, mixing rides and character worlds like Sylvanian Families and Ultraman with forest activities and big Fuji views. - [Oku-Iya Double Vine Bridges](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/oku-iya-double-vine-bridges): Tokushima, Attraction. A pair of vine bridges over the Iya River in the remote Oku-Iya area, comprising a longer 'male' bridge and a shorter 'female' bridge, plus a hand-pulled cart crossing. - [Takachiho Gorge](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/takachiho-gorge): Miyazaki, Attraction. A dramatic volcanic gorge with columnar basalt cliffs, a tall waterfall, and rowing boats for a unique perspective. - [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. - [Zentsuji](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/zentsuji): Kagawa, Temple. The head temple of the Zentsuji branch of Shingon Buddhism and the 75th temple on the Shikoku pilgrimage, regarded as the birthplace of Kobo Daishi (Kukai). - [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. - [Aso Shrine](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/aso-shrine): Kumamoto, Shrine. One of the oldest and most important shrines in the Aso region, known for a two-story romon gate that was rebuilt after the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake. - [Chikubushima](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/chikubushima): Shiga, Island. A small sacred island in the north of Lake Biwa, reached by boat and home to Hogonji Temple and Tsukubusuma Shrine. - [Lake Biwa Museum](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/lake-biwa-museum): Shiga, Museum. A museum on the Karasuma Peninsula devoted to Lake Biwa, one of the world's oldest lakes, combining natural-history galleries with one of Japan's largest freshwater aquariums. - [Asuka-dera](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/asuka-dera): Nara, Temple. A small hall in the fields of Asuka on the site of the temple Soga no Umako began in 588. Inside sits the bronze Asuka Daibutsu, about 2.75 m tall, which the temple dates to 609 and calls Japan's oldest Buddha statue. It was badly damaged in a fire in 1196 and is patched, but you can stand a few metres away and photograph it, which almost no other old temple allows. Entry is 500 yen. - [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. - [Tokoname](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/tokoname): Aichi, Attraction. A pottery town on the Chita Peninsula known for the Yakimono Sanpomichi walking path through its old kiln district and for maneki-neko cats. Page 48 of 85. Previous page: https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations.md?page=47 Next page: https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations.md?page=49 --- Source: [Travel Destinations | Japan Voyage Travel](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations?page=48) Last updated: 2026-11-07