# Travel Destinations | Japan Voyage Travel - [Unzen Miyazaki Ryokan](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/unzen-miyazaki-ryokan): Nagasaki, Accommodation. A 1929 inn facing Unzen Jigoku, rebuilt in 2022. Its sulfur water comes from the Daikyokan hell in front, three steam vents rise in its own garden, and its baths are for overnight guests only. - [Hofu Tenmangu Shrine](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/hofu-tenmangu-shrine): Yamaguchi, Shrine. A shrine dedicated to Sugawara no Michizane on a hillside above Hofu, with a stone stairway and plum trees. - [Matabei-zakura](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/matabei-zakura): Nara, Park. A single weeping cherry in the hamlet of Hongo, Uda, said to be about 300 years old, 13 metres tall and over 3 metres round the trunk. It stands on a stone wall where, local tradition says, the warrior Goto Matabei spent his last years. It usually blooms from late March to early April, and outside those weeks there is nothing to come for. Expect photographers before sunrise and full car parks on weekends. - [Michi-no-Eki Jobon-no-Sato](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/michi-no-eki-jobon-no-sato): Miyagi, Michi no eki. A roadside station with its own hot-spring bath, a few minutes off the Sanriku Expressway at Kahoku IC. Soak at Futago-no-Yu, buy vegetables at the Hitakami market, then carry on up the coast. It came seventh in Jalan's 2025 national michi-no-eki ranking. - [Unzen Kanko Hotel](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/unzen-kanko-hotel): Nagasaki, Accommodation. A half-timbered hotel from 1935 on the edge of Unzen Onsen, now a registered cultural property. Western rooms, French-style dinners and a sulfur bath under a domed ceiling. - [Shoryaku-ji](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/shoryaku-ji): Nara, Temple. A mountain temple about 4 km up a valley road from Route 169, where medieval monks worked out the brewing methods behind modern sake. The starter called bodaimoto is still made here every January, and seven Nara breweries sell sake made from it at the Fukujuin hall. In November over 3,000 maples turn. Outside the leaf season there is no bus, so come by car or taxi. - [Tsukigase Plum Grove](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/tsukigase-plum-grove): Nara, Park. Around 10,000 red and white plum trees on both sides of the Nabari river gorge (called the Satsuki river here), at the eastern edge of Nara city near the Mie border. Nara city says it was among the first places named a Place of Scenic Beauty in 1922, alongside Nara Park and Kenroku-en. The trees bloom from mid-February into March. Entry is free; getting there is the effort, with about three buses a day from Nara. - [Unzen Iwaki Ryokan](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/unzen-iwaki-ryokan): Nagasaki, Accommodation. A 35-room ryokan beside Unzen Jigoku that traces its roots to an 1887 resort for foreigners. Its own spring rises on the grounds, and a free finger bath by the door is open to anyone. - [Unzen Fukudaya](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/unzen-fukudaya): Nagasaki, Accommodation. A 34-room ryokan in Unzen Onsen with every bath fed straight from the source, saunas, two private baths free for guests, and a choice of three dinners. - [Unzen Kyushu Hotel](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/unzen-kyushu-hotel): Nagasaki, Accommodation. Founded in 1917 and rebuilt in 2018 as a 25-room hotel in the middle of Unzen Jigoku. Every room has its own open-air or semi-open-air bath; there is no large public bath. - [Yuyado Unzen Shinyu](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/yuyado-unzen-shinyu): Nagasaki, Accommodation. A 49-room inn founded in 1908 with four private hot spring sources and three kinds of water, kaiseki dinners, and garden rooms with their own open-air bath. - [Meitoya Sou](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/meitoya-sou): Yamagata, Accommodation. A Takamiya group ryokan in the centre of Zao Onsen, with a rock open-air bath and a wooden bath fed straight from the source and open 24 hours, and a ceramic private bath. - [Zao Onsen Dairotenburo](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/zao-onsen-dairotenburo): Yamagata, Onsen. Zao Onsen's seasonal outdoor bath, fed straight from a strongly acidic sulfur spring. ¥850 for adults, open from late April to November. - [Hotel Lucent Takamiya](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/hotel-lucent-takamiya): Yamagata, Accommodation. A resort hotel facing the Zao Chuo Ropeway, with rooms in three wings, every bath fed straight from the source, two private baths, and a dinner buffet with Yamagata beef and imoni. - [Yoshidaya (Zao Onsen)](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/yoshidaya-zao-onsen): Yamagata, Accommodation. A small Takamiya group inn in the middle of Zao Onsen, with Japanese rooms, two source-fed baths open 24 hours, casual jingisukan dinners, and room for small dogs and cats. Page 84 of 85. 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