# Travel Destinations | Japan Voyage Travel - [Edo-Tokyo Museum](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/edo-tokyo-museum): Tokyo, Museum. Tokyo's history museum next to the Ryogoku sumo hall, back open since March 31, 2026 after a renovation closure that began in April 2022. The permanent galleries on the 5th and 6th floors start with a full-size half of the Nihonbashi bridge and run from the Edo period to postwar Tokyo, for 800 yen. - [Hokkaido Shrine](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/hokkaido-shrine): Hokkaido, Shrine. Sapporo's main shrine, in the forest of Maruyama Park, founded in 1869 as the guardian of Hokkaido's settlement. Entry is free, but the gates close at 16:00 from November to February, and the first days of January bring long queues. - [Michi-no-Eki Yoka Tajimagura](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/michi-no-eki-yoka-tajimagura): Hyogo, Michi no eki. A roadside station on Route 9 in Yoka, Yabu, in the Tajima region of northern Hyogo, best known for its Asakura sansho (Japanese pepper) soft serve, with a farm shop, a restaurant serving Tajima beef, and free parking on the road toward Takeda Castle. - [Shibu Onsen](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/shibu-onsen): Nagano, Onsen. A narrow, stone-paved onsen street in the Yokoyu valley with nine public bathhouses that are locked to everyone but residents and people staying the night. Your inn lends you the key. Day visitors can use only the ninth, Oyu, for 800 yen. Jigokudani Monkey Park is further up the same valley. - [Azabudai Hills](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/azabudai-hills): Tokyo, Shopping. Mori Building's 8.1-hectare district between Kamiyacho and Roppongi-itchome, opened in November 2023 around the roughly 330-meter Mori JP Tower. It is free to walk through, with about 24,000 square meters of greenery, a food market of 33 specialty shops, and the teamLab Borderless museum. - [Gotoku-ji](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/gotoku-ji): Tokyo, Temple. The Ii family's Edo temple in Setagaya, where shelves of white beckoning cats surround the Shofuku-den hall. Free to enter from 6:00 to 17:00; the cats are sold at the temple office until 15:00, from 500 yen. - [Honno-ji](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/honno-ji): Kyoto, Temple. The Nichiren-school temple linked to Oda Nobunaga's death in 1582, rebuilt on Teramachi-dori in 1592. The grounds and Nobunaga's mausoleum are free; the treasure house costs 700 yen. - [Okunitama Shrine](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/okunitama-shrine): Tokyo, Shrine. The soja, or combined shrine, of old Musashi Province, five minutes from Fuchu Station, reached by a zelkova avenue about 700 m long. Free to visit; its Kurayami Matsuri runs from April 30 to May 6, with eight mikoshi carried out on the night of May 5. - [Tower of the Sun](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/tower-of-the-sun): Osaka, Landmark. Taro Okamoto's 70-meter tower from Expo '70, whose hollow interior reopened in March 2018 after nearly 50 years. Inside, a 41-meter steel Tree of Life carries 292 models tracing evolution from amoebae to humans. Entry is by advance booking only, up to the day before. - [Gosho Aoyama Manga Factory](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/gosho-aoyama-manga-factory): Tottori, Museum. A museum in Hokuei about Detective Conan creator Gosho Aoyama, with displays and interactive exhibits from his manga world. - [Pola Museum of Art](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/pola-museum-of-art): Kanagawa, Museum. A museum in the Sengokuhara woods, opened in 2002, built mostly underground to keep it 8 meters high, with a collection that includes Monet, Renoir, Cezanne, Van Gogh, Picasso and Foujita. Adult tickets are 2,200 yen, and a free shuttle runs from Gora Station. - [Taima-dera](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/taima-dera): Nara, Temple. A temple at the foot of Mount Nijo in Katsuragi, and the only one in Japan where both of its ancient three-storey pagodas still stand, one east and one west. The main hall keeps the Taima Mandala, a picture of the Pure Land tied to the legend of Princess Chujo. It is a 15-minute walk from a small Kintetsu station, and in late April and early May the peonies in the sub-temple gardens bring the crowds. - [The National Art Center, Tokyo](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/the-national-art-center-tokyo): Tokyo, Museum. A national art center in Roppongi with no collection of its own, only temporary exhibitions in 12 galleries. Walking into Kurokawa Kisho's glass-fronted building, its atrium and cafes is free; each exhibition charges separately. - [Tokara Islands](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/tokara-islands): Kagoshima, Island. A chain of islands between Yakushima and Amami-Oshima that make up Toshima village, with people living on seven of them. No airport reaches them: the village ferry leaves Kagoshima at 23:00 about twice a week, and there are no restaurants, taxis or banks on the islands, so you book a minshuku with meals before you board. - [Wakura Onsen](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/wakura-onsen): Ishikawa, Onsen. A hot spring town on Nanao Bay whose salty water first rose from the sea. The 1 January 2024 Noto Peninsula earthquake shut it down. As of 16 July 2026, 11 of the 19 inns in the ryokan cooperative had reopened, with about 40% of the pre-quake rooms. The public bath, Soyu, has been open since March 2024. Kagaya, the best-known inn, is rebuilding and aims to reopen by the end of fiscal 2028. Page 50 of 84. Previous page: https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations.md?page=49 Next page: https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations.md?page=51 --- Source: [Travel Destinations | Japan Voyage Travel](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations?page=50) Last updated: 2026-10-20