# Travel Destinations | Japan Voyage Travel

- [Kashiwajima](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/kashiwajima): Kochi, Island. A small island, about 4 kilometers around, tied to the Otsuki Peninsula by two bridges. The water is clear enough that moored boats seem to float in the air, and more than 1,000 fish species have been recorded offshore.
- [Kinojo Castle Ruins](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/kinojo-castle-ruins): Okayama, Castle. A reconstructed gate above the Kibi Plain introduces a much older kind of Japanese fortress. Kinojo’s earthen ramparts, stonework and mountain paths preserve an ancient defensive landscape whose precise origins remain uncertain, far removed from the familiar samurai keep.
- [Kiyoshikojin Seicho-ji Temple](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/kiyoshikojin-seicho-ji-temple): Hyogo, Temple. A climbing shopping street leads to Kiyoshikojin, where Buddhist worship meets devotion to the guardian of fire and the household hearth. The approach and wooded temple grounds make a rewarding walk from the Hankyu Takarazuka line.
- [Kumejima](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/kumejima): Okinawa, Island. An island of about 7,000 people roughly 100 km west of Okinawa Island, reached by a 30-minute flight from Naha or a three-hour ferry. The draw is Hate-no-hama, a sandbar about 7 km long that you can only reach on a tour boat, plus the turtle-shell rocks of Tatami-ishi and an 18th-century stone-walled house.
- [Matsue Vogel Park](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/matsue-vogel-park): Shimane, Theme park. A flower and bird park on the north shore of Lake Shinji, built around a heated greenhouse of about 8,000 m² where begonias and fuchsias bloom all year. Owl shows, a daily penguin walk and a shoebill. A good rainy-day stop near Matsue.
- [Michi-no-Eki Park Shichiri Mihama](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/michi-no-eki-park-shichiri-mihama): Mie, Michi no eki. A Route 42 stop in Mihama, a town that sells itself on having mandarins in every season. Its own juice plant presses local citrus upstairs, and the long pebble beach of Shichiri Mihama is just across the road.
- [Michi-no-Eki Saijo Nonta-no-Sakagura](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/michi-no-eki-saijo-nonta-no-sakagura): Hiroshima, Michi no eki. A sake-brewery-style station beside the Route 2 Saijo Bypass, opened in 2022. Its market stocks sake from ten Higashihiroshima breweries, and a food court and Italian restaurant use local ingredients.
- [Michi-no-Eki Tono Kaze-no-Oka](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/michi-no-eki-tono-kaze-no-oka): Iwate, Michi no eki. A hilltop station on Route 283 just off the Tono exit of the Kamaishi Expressway, marked by wind turbines and looking over the Tono basin. Stop here first for maps and advice, then come back at the end for local sweets, sake and beer.
- [Michi-no-Eki Uchiko Fresh Park Karari](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/michi-no-eki-uchiko-fresh-park-karari): Ehime, Michi no eki. A farm market on Route 379 that only sells produce grown in Uchiko, with each grower's name on the label. The bakery, smokehouse and ice cream counter make it a good lunch stop before or after the old merchant streets.
- [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.
- [Michi-no-Eki Yuiyui Kunigami](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/michi-no-eki-yuiyui-kunigami): Okinawa, Michi no eki. The only roadside station in Kunigami, the northernmost village on Okinawa Island, on Route 58 near Okuma Beach. Stock up on local produce, eat Okinawan home cooking and check the road news before driving on to Cape Hedo.
- [Mount Yufu](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/mount-yufu): Oita, Mountain. A 1,583-meter volcano with two summits that fills the skyline behind Yufuin, known locally as Bungo Fuji. Yufu City's trail map gives about 2.5 hours from the main trailhead to the top, with chains on the west peak and a crater-rim loop meant only for experienced hikers.
- [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.
- [Ofuna Kannon](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/ofuna-kannon): Kanagawa, Temple. A white concrete bust of Kannon about 25 meters tall on the hill above Ofuna Station, begun in 1929, abandoned for 23 years and finished in 1960. It is now a Soto Zen temple and a branch of Soji-ji; entry is 300 yen.
- [Akiyoshidai Plateau](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/akiyoshidai-plateau): Yamaguchi, Park. An open karst plateau of grassland and pale limestone above Akiyoshido Cave, with viewpoints and walking routes.

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