# Travel Destinations | Japan Voyage Travel - [Tokugawa Art Museum](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/tokugawa-art-museum): Aichi, Museum. The collection of the Owari Tokugawa family, more than 10,000 items including nine National Treasures, shown in rooms modelled on Nagoya Castle's Ninomaru Palace. The 12th-century Tale of Genji scrolls come out only for a short run in late November. - [Yarigatake](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/yarigatake): Nagano, Mountain. The 3,180-meter spear-shaped peak of the Northern Alps, fifth-highest in Japan, usually climbed over two days from Kamikochi. The final 30 minutes from Yarigatake Sanso go up rock, chains and iron ladders, and on peak holidays the queue for them can last hours. - [Aoshima Cat Island (Ehime)](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/aoshima-cat-island-ehime): Ehime, Island. A tiny fishing island 13.5 km off Nagahama where cats far outnumber the few elderly people who still live there. There are no shops, restaurants, vending machines or places to stay, the boat runs twice a day and takes at most 34 passengers a day, and visitors are asked to follow a short set of rules. - [Asakusa Hanayashiki](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/asakusa-hanayashiki): Tokyo, Amusement park. A tiny park a few minutes' walk from Sensoji that began as a flower garden in 1853. Its 1953 roller coaster, the oldest still running in Japan, threads between the rooftops of Asakusa at 42 km/h. - [Chugu-ji](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/chugu-ji): Nara, Temple. A small nunnery right next to the Yumedono in Horyu-ji's east precinct. It is kept for its main image, a seventh-century camphor-wood bodhisattva sitting with one leg crossed over the other and a fingertip at its cheek. Entry is 600 yen and half an hour is plenty, but do not rush the statue. - [Doai Station](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/doai-station): Gunma, Landmark. An unstaffed JR Joetsu Line station whose down-line platform sits inside the Shin-Shimizu Tunnel, about 70 meters below the station building. Getting out means climbing 462 steps, then another 24, which takes about 10 minutes. Only five trains stop each way per day, so plan around the timetable. - [Dorogawa Onsen](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/dorogawa-onsen): Nara, Onsen. A street of old wooden inns at about 820 meters in the Omine mountains, built to lodge pilgrims heading up Sanjo-ga-take, a peak that still bars women. There is no train: the last leg is a bus of about 70 minutes from Kintetsu Shimoichiguchi Station, with only a handful of departures a day. - [Hoshi Onsen Chojukan](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/hoshi-onsen-chojukan): Gunma, Onsen. Hoshi Onsen is a single wooden inn, Chojukan, at the foot of the Mikuni Pass. Its big bath, Hoshi-no-yu, dates from 1895, and the roughly 40°C water comes straight up from the rock under the stones you sit on. Reaching it without a car means a train, a bus and a town bus that runs four times a day. - [Jison-in](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/jison-in): Wakayama, Temple. A small Shingon temple by the Kinokawa river where, by tradition, Kukai's mother lived out her life because women were barred from Koyasan. Women still leave breast-shaped ema here. The 180th stone of the Koyasan Choishi-michi stands on the steps up to Niu Kanshofu Shrine just above it, and the temple is one of the component parts of the Kii Mountain Range World Heritage property. Free; 20 minutes on foot from Kudoyama Station. - [Kyushu Natural Animal Park African Safari](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/kyushu-natural-animal-park-african-safari): Oita, Zoo. A large drive-through safari park with about 70 species and 1,400 animals along a 6 km road. Drive your own car, or take the Jungle Bus and feed lions and bears through the bars. - [Lake Mashu](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/lake-mashu): Hokkaido, Attraction. A caldera lake 212 m deep, walled in by cliffs up to 350 m high, that you look down on from observatories on the rim; there is no way down to the water. Summer fog often hides it, and the road past the free No. 3 Observatory closes in winter. - [Michi-no-Eki Aito Margaret Station](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/michi-no-eki-aito-margaret-station): Shiga, Michi no eki. A roadside station on Route 307 that grew out of a farmers' market. Come for the gelato made with local milk and fruit, then pick flowers in the fields next door when they are in season. - [Michi-no-Eki Miki](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/michi-no-eki-miki): Hyogo, Michi no eki. Michi-no-Eki Miki turns a break on Route 175 into an introduction to the city’s toolmaking tradition. Browse the hardware display and sales floor, then explore local food products and the restaurant before continuing through the surrounding Harima region. - [Michi-no-Eki Senzakitchen](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/michi-no-eki-senzakitchen): Yamaguchi, Michi no eki. Senzaki's fishing-port food hall on Senzaki Bay. Buy fish or dried seafood at the counter and grill it yourself next door, or sit down for a local seafood bowl. Around 4.35 million people came in its first five years. - [Michi-no-Eki Susami](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/michi-no-eki-susami): Wakayama, Michi no eki. Right off the Susami-minami exit of the Kisei Expressway, this Route 42 station has a seafood restaurant facing the Pacific and a small town aquarium devoted to shrimp and crabs. Page 69 of 83. 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