# Travel Destinations | Japan Voyage Travel - [Mount Iwaki](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/mount-iwaki): Aomori, Mountain. A lone 1,625-meter volcano west of Hirosaki that people in Tsugaru call Tsugaru Fuji. A toll road with 69 bends climbs to the 8th station, a lift continues to the 9th, and the summit is about 30 to 40 minutes on foot from there; hikers can also start at Iwakiyama Shrine and walk the whole way. - [Mount Usu and Showa-shinzan](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/mount-usu-and-showa-shinzan): Hokkaido, Mountain. Mount Usu, the active volcano on the south shore of Lake Toya, and Showa-shinzan, the lava dome at its foot that pushed up out of a wheat field between 1943 and 1945. A ropeway (2,000 yen return) climbs Usu, and trails near Toyako Onsen walk through the craters and wrecked buildings of the 2000 eruption. - [Sengaku-ji](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/sengaku-ji): Tokyo, Temple. The Zen temple in Takanawa where the 47 ronin of the Chushingura story are buried beside their lord, Asano Naganori. The grounds are free, a 500 yen incense fee is asked at the graves, and the museum costs 500 yen. - [Shirahama Onsen](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/shirahama-onsen): Wakayama, Onsen. The hot spring side of Shirahama, apart from the beach. Its best-known bath is Sakinoyu, open-air rock pools on the Yuzaki shore where the lowest pool sits at the level of the sea and waves come in over the edge. It costs 500 yen, and you cannot use soap because the water runs straight into the ocean. - [Tsushima](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/tsushima): Nagasaki, Island. A long, forested island in the strait between Kyushu and Korea, with a 7th-century border fort, a shrine whose torii stand in the sea and the only wild leopard cats in Japan. It is about 82 km from north to south, so you need a car and at least two days. - [Upopoy National Ainu Museum and Park](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/upopoy-national-ainu-museum-and-park): Hokkaido, Museum. The national centre for Ainu culture, opened in 2020 on the shore of Lake Poroto in Shiraoi: the National Ainu Museum, a reconstructed kotan of thatched chise houses, a craft workshop and a hall for traditional dance. Entry is 1,200 yen, and JR Shiraoi Station is a 10-minute walk away. - [Jiko-in](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/jiko-in): Nara, Temple. A small Zen temple in Yamato-Koriyama built in 1663 by the tea master and local lord Katagiri Sekishu, laid out as one long tea gathering from the gate to the tea rooms. The 1,000 yen entry includes a bowl of matcha in the thatched shoin, looking over a clipped garden toward the Yamato basin. The view now takes in a fair amount of suburb, and it is cash only. - [Ryusendo Cave](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/ryusendo-cave): Iwate, Attraction. A limestone cave in Iwaizumi with about 700 meters open to visitors and three lit underground lakes, the deepest of them 98 meters, in water so clear it glows blue. - [Toyokawa Inari](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/toyokawa-inari): Aichi, Temple. Despite the name and the red banners, this is a Soto Zen temple, Myogon-ji, founded in 1441. Behind the main hall the Reiko-zuka slope holds more than 1,000 stone foxes left by worshippers. The grounds are free and a 5-minute walk from two stations. - [Ueno Toshogu](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/ueno-toshogu): Tokyo, Shrine. Tokugawa Ieyasu's shrine in Ueno Park, founded in 1627; the gold-leaf Konjiki-den and its gates were rebuilt by Iemitsu in 1651 and have come through every disaster since. Walking up is free; seeing the hall up close inside the fence costs 700 yen. - [Asuka Palace Site](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/asuka-palace-site): Nara, Historic site. The spot in the middle of Asuka where several 7th-century rulers built their palaces one on top of another, from Emperor Jomei's to the Kiyomihara palace of Tenmu and Jito. Here Soga no Iruka was assassinated in 645. Today it is a small field with a restored stone pavement and a large stone-lined well. Free and open at all times. One of the 19 parts of the Ancient Capitals of Asuka and Fujiwara World Heritage property. - [Azuchi Castle Ruins](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/azuchi-castle-ruins): Shiga, Castle. Oda Nobunaga’s short-lived castle survives as a wooded ascent of stone steps, walls and foundations above the Lake Biwa plain. The tower is gone, but the scale of the approach still conveys the ambition of its sixteenth-century builder. - [Battleship Mikasa](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/battleship-mikasa): Kanagawa, Museum. The British-built battleship that carried Admiral Togo Heihachiro at the Battle of Tsushima in 1905, now fixed in concrete in Mikasa Park and open as a museum ship. Allow 30 to 60 minutes; admission is 800 yen. - [Imai-cho](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/imai-cho): Nara, Neighborhood. An old merchant town in Kashihara where roughly 1,500 buildings fill an area about 600 m by 310 m, most of them still lived in. It began as a moated temple town that held out against Oda Nobunaga, and became rich enough in the Edo period to print its own money. Free to wander, five minutes on foot from Kintetsu Yagi-Nishiguchi Station, with a few old houses open inside. - [Jakko-in](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/jakko-in): Kyoto, Temple. The small Ohara nunnery where Kenreimon-in retired after the Heike were destroyed at Dannoura. The Tale of the Heike closes here, and so does most of the valley's foot traffic. Page 53 of 84. Previous page: https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations.md?page=52 Next page: https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations.md?page=54 --- Source: [Travel Destinations | Japan Voyage Travel](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations?page=53) Last updated: 2026-10-20