# Travel Destinations | Japan Voyage Travel - [Michi-no-Eki Nara Rekishi Geijutsu Bunkamura](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/michi-no-eki-nara-rekishi-geijutsu-bunkamura): Nara, Michi no eki. Few roadside stations let you watch conservators at work. At this prefectural culture village in Tenri, you look through glass at Buddhist statues, paintings and old building parts under repair, then shop for Nara produce and crafts. - [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. - [Michi-no-Eki Toju-no-Sato Adogawa](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/michi-no-eki-toju-no-sato-adogawa): Shiga, Michi no eki. The obvious break on Route 161 up the west side of Lake Biwa. Adogawa has made the ribs of folding fans for centuries, and the station sells fans next to jam and sweets made from Adberry, the local name for boysenberry. - [Michi-no-Eki Utsunomiya Romantic Mura](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/michi-no-eki-utsunomiya-romantic-mura): Tochigi, Michi no eki. A 46-hectare farm park on Route 293, about five minutes from the Utsunomiya interchange. Come for the Aozora-kan shop, stay for the open-air hot spring and a glass of beer brewed on site. - [Michi-no-Eki Yamba Furusatokan](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/michi-no-eki-yamba-furusatokan): Gunma, Michi no eki. A stop on the Route 145 Yamba bypass at the foot of Fudo Ohashi, one of the bridges built for Yamba Dam. Soak your feet in the free hot-spring footbath and look out over the 590-meter bridge. - [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. - [Nagaoka Tenmangu Shrine](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/nagaoka-tenmangu-shrine): Kyoto, Shrine. Crimson Kirishima azaleas line the pond crossing at Nagaoka Tenmangu, a shrine associated with scholar Sugawara no Michizane. Beyond the spring display, waterside paths and wooded precincts offer a rewarding stop along the Hankyu route between Osaka and Kyoto. - [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. - [Narusawa Ice Cave](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/narusawa-ice-cave): Yamanashi, Attraction. A lava tube formed in the 864 eruption on Fuji's north side, kept at about 3°C so ice lasts all year. The loop inside is short, about 150 m, but it is nearly all damp stairs, with one spot only 91 cm high. Entry is 350 yen. - [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. - [Nishimikawa Placer Gold Mine](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/nishimikawa-placer-gold-mine): Niigata, Historic site. The placer gold field around the hamlet of Sasagawa in south-west Sado, which Sado City calls the island's oldest gold mine and which worked until 1872. It is one of the component parts of the Sado Island Gold Mines, inscribed in July 2024. You walk marked routes of one to two hours past hillsides cut away for gold, old water channels, a shrine with a noh stage and the headman's house. It is a lived-in farming village with no toilets, bins or buses. The Sado Nishimikawa Gold Park, a gold-panning museum about 3 km down the valley, is a separate facility. - [Osaka Cathedral (St. Mary's, Tamatsukuri)](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/osaka-cathedral-st-mary-s-tamatsukuri): Osaka, Landmark. The cathedral of the Catholic Archdiocese of Osaka-Takamatsu, built in 1963 on ground linked to the Hosokawa family residence, with stone statues of Hosokawa Gracia and Takayama Ukon in the forecourt and murals by Domoto Insho inside. - [Shin-Yakushi-ji](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/shin-yakushi-ji): Nara, Temple. A small temple in the Takabatake district, south of Kasuga Taisha, with one Nara-period hall and one reason to come: twelve nearly life-size clay generals from the 8th century, standing in a ring around a seated healing Buddha. It is a 10 to 15 minute uphill walk from the nearest bus stop. - [Soji-ji](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/soji-ji): Kanagawa, Temple. One of the two head temples of Soto Zen, founded in 1321 on the Noto Peninsula and moved to Tsurumi in Yokohama in 1911. The grounds are free, and a monthly English zazen session costs 500 yen with no booking needed. - [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. Page 71 of 83. Previous page: https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations.md?page=70 Next page: https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations.md?page=72 --- Source: [Travel Destinations | Japan Voyage Travel](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations?page=71) Last updated: 2026-10-20