# Travel Destinations | Japan Voyage Travel

- [Kumamoto Castle](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/kumamoto-castle): Kumamoto, Castle. Under restoration after the 2016 and July 2026 earthquakes. The main tower has reopened, but check what is currently open before visiting.
- [Amakusa Islands](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/amakusa-islands): Kumamoto, Attraction. Scenic archipelago with Hidden Christian heritage, dolphin watching, pristine coastline, and fresh seafood, connected to the mainland by bridges.
- [Kumamoto City](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/kumamoto-city): Kumamoto, City. Major Kyushu city centered around Kumamoto Castle, known for horse meat cuisine, streetcar network, and as a gateway to Mount Aso.
- [Mount Aso](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/mount-aso): Kumamoto, Attraction. The world's largest volcanic caldera with an active crater, vast grasslands, and dramatic highland scenery.
- [Nabegataki Falls](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/nabegataki-falls): Kumamoto, Attraction. A low, wide waterfall in Oguni with a walkable path behind the curtain of water. Timed online reservation is required to enter.
- [Suizenji Garden](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/suizenji-garden): Kumamoto, Garden. Exquisite Edo-period strolling garden featuring a miniature reproduction of the 53 stations of the Tokaido road, centered around a crystal-clear spring-fed pond.
- [Tsujun Bridge](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/tsujun-bridge): Kumamoto, Historic site. National Important Cultural Property and Japan's largest stone aqueduct bridge, famous for its spectacular scheduled water discharge.
- [Hitoyoshi](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/hitoyoshi): Kumamoto, City. Remote mountain town known as the Little Kyoto of Kyushu, famous for its samurai heritage, ball shochu distilleries, and river rafting.
- [Kurokawa Onsen](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/kurokawa-onsen): Kumamoto, Onsen. A mountain onsen village in a wooded valley near Mount Aso, loved for its traditional atmosphere and bath-hopping pass. The entire village feels like one large ryokan connected by a stream and forest paths.
- [Kikuchi Gorge](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/kikuchi-gorge): Kumamoto, Park. A forested valley on the northwestern outer rim of Mount Aso, with clear streams, rapids, deep pools, and small waterfalls, known for fresh greenery and autumn foliage.
- [Reigando](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/reigando): Kumamoto, Historic site. A natural cave on Mount Kinpo where swordsman Miyamoto Musashi wrote The Book of Five Rings, on the grounds of Unganzenji temple with hundreds of rakan statues along the approach.
- [Sakitsu Village](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/sakitsu-village): Kumamoto, Historic site. A small fishing village on Amakusa Shimoshima whose Gothic church, built in 1934 with a tatami floor, stands where villagers were once made to step on Christian images. Part of the 2018 UNESCO Hidden Christian Sites.
- [Daikanbo](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/daikanbo): Kumamoto, Landmark. A lookout on the northern rim of the Aso caldera, about 936 meters high, with views over the plain and the reclining outline of the mountains known as the sleeping Buddha.
- [Manda Pit](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/manda-pit): Kumamoto, Historic site. A pit of the Mitsui Miike coal mine with its works still standing: an 18.8 m steel headframe from 1908, a brick winding house, and the bathhouse where miners washed off the coal dust. Coal came up here from 1902 to 1951. It belongs to the Miike Coal Mine and Miike Port part of the Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution, with the Miyanohara Pit and Miike Port just across the border in Omuta. Entry is 410 yen.
- [Misumi West Port](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/misumi-west-port): Kumamoto, Historic site. A harbour designed by the Dutch engineer Rouwenhorst Mulder and opened in 1887, with a 756 m stone quay built by Amakusa masons, stone drains and bridges, and a row of Meiji-era public buildings. Miike coal was shipped from here until Miike Port opened. It is one of the 23 parts of the Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution World Heritage property. The waterfront is free to walk.

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Last updated: 2026-11-08