# Travel Destinations | Japan Voyage Travel - [Izu Oshima](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/izu-oshima): Tokyo, Island. The largest of the Izu Islands, about 120 km south of central Tokyo, built around Mt. Mihara (758 m), an active volcano whose 1986 eruption emptied the whole island for about a month. Walk to the crater, cross the black scoria of Ura-sabaku, and come between late January and March for the camellia festival. - [Jindai-ji](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/jindai-ji): Tokyo, Temple. A temple founded in 733 in wooded Chofu, ringed by soba shops and home to the oldest National Treasure Buddha in eastern Japan. Entry is free, but there is no station: it is a bus ride from Chofu, Kichijoji or Mitaka. - [Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/tokyo-metropolitan-teien-art-museum): Tokyo, Museum. The 1933 home of Prince Asaka, with main rooms by the French Art Deco designers Henri Rapin and René Lalique, opened as an art museum in 1983 and is an Important Cultural Property. Exhibition tickets vary by show, while the lawn, Japanese garden and Western garden cost 200 yen on their own. - [Tomioka Hachimangu](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/tomioka-hachimangu): Tokyo, Shrine. Founded in 1627 and known locally as Fukagawa no Hachiman-sama, the shrine where Edo's ticketed sumo tournaments began. Its summer festival centers on August 15, and spectators throw water over the mikoshi bearers; every third year 53 neighborhood mikoshi parade together. - [Tsukishima](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/tsukishima): Tokyo, Neighborhood. A Meiji-era island of reclaimed land at the mouth of the Sumida River whose main shopping street, Nishinaka-dori, is lined with monjayaki restaurants. The local monja association alone has about 50 member shops, and staff will cook for you if you have never made it. - [Kiyosumi Gardens](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/kiyosumi-gardens): Tokyo, Garden. A Meiji-era stroll garden built by the Iwasaki family of Mitsubishi around a large pond with three islands, edged with stones their steamships brought from all over Japan. A line of stepping stones lets you walk along the water's edge, and entry is 150 yen. - [Hachijo-jima](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/hachijo-jima): Tokyo, Island. Two volcanoes joined by a strip of flat land, about 55 minutes by ANA from Haneda. Climb 1,280 steps to the crater rim of Hachijo-Fuji (854 m), soak in the hot springs under the older, greener Miharayama, and decide for yourself about kusaya, the island's pungent fermented dried fish. - [Michi-no-Eki Hachioji Takiyama](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/michi-no-eki-hachioji-takiyama): Tokyo, Michi no eki. Opened in 2007 as the first michi-no-eki in Tokyo, about 500 m north of Hachioji IC on the Chuo Expressway. Come for Hachioji-grown vegetables, gelato made with milk from a local dairy and a bowl of Hachioji ramen. - [Miyake-jima](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/miyake-jima): Tokyo, Island. A round volcanic island about 180 km off Honshu whose 2000 eruption and the gas that followed emptied it for about four and a half years. Lava from 1983 still covers the old Ako school, the forest around Tairoike is home ground for the Izu thrush, and the summit is open only on guided tours. - [Suitengu](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/suitengu): Tokyo, Shrine. Tokyo's best-known shrine for safe childbirth, a minute from Suitengumae Station, rebuilt in 2016 on a raised, earthquake-isolated platform. Free to visit; on dog days, which come every 12 days, pregnant women and their families queue for blessings. - [Nezu Shrine](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/nezu-shrine): Tokyo, Shrine. A gongen-style shrine finished in 1706 whose seven main structures are all Important Cultural Properties. In April a hillside of 3,000 azaleas opens for a donation; the rest of the year the draw is the narrow tunnel of torii at Otome Inari. - [Ikegami Honmon-ji](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/ikegami-honmon-ji): Tokyo, Temple. Head temple of the Nichiren school on a hill in Ota Ward, built where Nichiren died in 1282. Free to visit, with the oldest surviving five-storied pagoda in the Kanto region and a steep flight of 96 stone steps at the front. - [Kozu-shima](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/kozu-shima): Tokyo, Island. An Izu island reached by jet ferry from Takeshiba in about 3 hours 45 minutes or by a 45-minute flight from Chofu. Mount Tenjo, 572 m, is a hike of four to five hours, and in December 2020 the island became Tokyo's first Dark Sky Island. - [Niijima](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/niijima): Tokyo, Island. A surf island about 160 km south of Tokyo, where Habushiura's 6.5 km of white sand faces the open Pacific. Moyai statues carved from the local koga stone stand around the island, and the open-air pools at Yunohama are free and open 24 hours, swimsuit required. Page 7 of 7. 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