# Travel Destinations | Japan Voyage Travel

- [Yamadera](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/yamadera): Yamagata, Temple. A mountain temple with over 1,000 stone steps leading to panoramic views, Yamadera inspired Matsuo Basho's famous haiku about the silence of cicadas.
- [Ginzan Onsen](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/ginzan-onsen): Yamagata, Onsen. A hot spring town of wooden ryokan from the 1910s and 20s, facing each other across the river gorge. No cars, and the street lamps are gas.
- [Tendo Onsen](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/tendo-onsen): Yamagata, Onsen. A relaxing hot spring town known as the production center of over 90% of Japan's shogi pieces. The annual Human Shogi festival features costumed players on a giant outdoor board. Excellent base for visiting Yamadera.
- [Mogami River Boat Ride](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/mogami-river-boat-ride): Yamagata, Attraction. A relaxing hour-long boat ride down the Mogami River through a scenic gorge, accompanied by the boatman's traditional songs. At its best in autumn foliage and winter snow.
- [Zao Onsen](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/zao-onsen): Yamagata, Onsen. A mountain hot spring town famous for spectacular snow monster formations in winter and the emerald crater lake of Okama.
- [Dewa Sanzan](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/dewa-sanzan): Yamagata, Shrine. The three sacred mountains of Dewa -- Haguro, Gassan, and Yudono -- have been a center for yamabushi mountain asceticism for over 1,400 years and represent birth, death, and rebirth.
- [Gassan](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/gassan): Yamagata, Attraction. One of the three sacred Dewa mountains, Gassan is unusual for offering summer skiing from April to July. Alpine wildflowers blanket the slopes, and pilgrims hike to the summit shrine. A unique blend of spirituality and outdoor adventure.
- [Michi-no-Eki Sagae Cherry Land](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/michi-no-eki-sagae-cherry-land): Yamagata, Michi no eki. A big riverside station in Sagae, the heart of Yamagata's cherry country, on the Route 112 road towards Gassan and the Shonai coast. Over 600 cherry products, a free cherry museum and two-scoop gelato in local flavours.
- [Michi-no-Eki Chokai](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/michi-no-eki-chokai): Yamagata, Michi no eki. A Route 7 stop in Yuza, at the foot of Mt Chokai, best known for its fish counter. Buy a grilled fish, add a rice set in the canteen, and you have lunch. Summer brings wild rock oysters from nearby Fukura.
- [Mount Chokai](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/mount-chokai): Yamagata, Mountain. A 2,236 m active volcano on the Akita and Yamagata border, about 16 km from the Sea of Japan and called Dewa Fuji for its shape. Most climbers start at Hokodate, the fifth station at 1,150 m on the toll-free Chokai Blue Line, and reach the summit in about 4 hours 40 minutes on a route where snowfields last into July.
- [Michi-no-Eki Yonezawa](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/michi-no-eki-yonezawa): Yamagata, Michi no eki. A large station opened in 2018 about 200 meters from Yonezawa-Chuo IC on the Tohoku-Chuo Expressway. Come for Yonezawa beef, Yonezawa ramen and Okitama produce, then head into the old castle town.

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Source: [Travel Destinations | Japan Voyage Travel](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations?prefecture_id=6)
Last updated: 2026-11-02