# Travel Destinations | Japan Voyage Travel - [Mizuki Shigeru Road](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/mizuki-shigeru-road): Tottori, Neighborhood. A walk through Sakaiminato lined with bronze yokai from the manga of Mizuki Shigeru. - [Naruko Onsen](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/naruko-onsen): Miyagi, Onsen. A hot spring town in the hills of northwest Miyagi, about 45 minutes from Furukawa on the JR Rikuu East Line. Naruko is a kokeshi town: its dolls have heads fitted into the body that squeak when you turn them, and a street of doll shops leads up from the station. Takino-yu, the public bath beside the Onsen Shrine, costs 300 yen. In late October Naruko Gorge turns red and the town fills up. - [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. - [Okukinu Onsen](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/okukinu-onsen): Tochigi, Onsen. Four inns at the head of the Kinu River inside Nikko National Park: Kaniyu, Hatchonoyu, Nikkozawa Onsen and Teshirozawa Onsen. No private cars or taxis go past Meotobuchi, so you walk in on a forest trail (80 to 90 minutes to the nearest inns, 2 to 2.5 hours to Teshirozawa) or, if you are staying at Kaniyu or Hatchonoyu, ride the inn's shuttle. - [Saidai-ji](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/saidai-ji): Nara, Temple. Once the western counterpart of Todai-ji, now a set of Edo-period halls three minutes from a busy Kintetsu junction. It is known for the Ochamori, where tea is whisked in a bowl over 30 cm across and passed round, and for the Nara-period demons under the feet of its Four Heavenly Kings. Individuals can only join the tea ceremony on a few fixed days a year. - [Shimoguri no Sato](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/shimoguri-no-sato): Nagano, Attraction. A farming hamlet in the Toyama valley of southern Iida, its houses and potato fields spread over slopes of up to 38 degrees between about 800 and 1,100 meters. A narrow road climbs to it, vehicles 7 meters or longer are banned, and without a car you need a bus, then a taxi or a booked shared taxi. - [Shokasonjuku Academy](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/shokasonjuku-academy): Yamaguchi, Historic site. A small wooden schoolhouse in the grounds of Shoin Shrine in Hagi, where Yoshida Shoin taught for a little over a year before his execution in 1859. Takasugi Shinsaku, Ito Hirobumi and Yamagata Aritomo studied here. It is one of the 23 parts of the Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution World Heritage property. You look in from outside, and there is no fee. - [Takamatsu Castle](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/takamatsu-castle): Kagawa, Castle. Takamatsu’s waterfront castle survives as Tamamo Park, where seawater fills the moats beside original turrets. The absent keep leaves room to focus on stone defenses, formal gardens and the castle’s unusual relationship with the Seto Inland Sea. - [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. - [Yamanobe-no-michi](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/yamanobe-no-michi): Nara, Trail. A walking route along the western foot of the hills east of the Nara basin, often called Japan's oldest road and named in the Kojiki. The usual stretch runs about 16 km from Tenri Station past Isonokami Shrine, Chogaku-ji and the big imperial tombs to Omiwa Shrine and Sakurai Station, with only about 75 m of height difference. Allow most of a day. JR stations below the route let you stop early. - [Yoshino Mikumari Shrine](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/yoshino-mikumari-shrine): Nara, Shrine. A shrine to the god who shares out the water, in the upper reaches of Mount Yoshino and part of the Kii Mountain Range World Heritage listing. Toyotomi Hideyoshi prayed here for an heir, and the son he got, Hideyori, rebuilt it in 1604: a gate tower, a worship hall and a main hall of three shrines under one roof, all Important Cultural Properties. Entry is free, and it is a long, steep walk from the ropeway. - [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. - [Fukagawa Edo Museum](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/fukagawa-edo-museum): Tokyo, Museum. A city museum that rebuilds a corner of Fukagawa Saga-cho as it looked in the Tenpo era (1830s to 1840s) at full scale, inside a three-storey atrium. You can step up into the shops and tenement rooms, and the light and sound shift through a whole day. Adults pay 400 yen. - [Goshono Site](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/goshono-site): Iwate, Historic site. The site of a Jomon village on a plateau above the Mabechi River in Ichinohe, northern Iwate, lived in from about 5,000 to 4,200 years ago and one of the 17 parts of the Jomon Prehistoric Sites in Northern Japan World Heritage property. You cross a covered wooden suspension bridge to reach it. Some pit houses have been rebuilt with earth roofs, based on burnt remains found here. The park is free; the museum costs 300 yen. Page 70 of 83. Previous page: https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations.md?page=69 Next page: https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations.md?page=71 --- Source: [Travel Destinations | Japan Voyage Travel](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations?page=70) Last updated: 2026-10-20