Travel Destinations in Shizuoka

Mount Omuro

A Grassy Volcano in Ito You Can Only Climb by Chairlift

A 580-meter scoria cone in Ito, a protected natural monument that nobody may climb on foot. A six...

MOA Museum of Art

Seven Escalators Up a Hill to Korin's Plum Screen Above Atami

A private museum on the hill above Atami Station with about 3,500 works of mostly East Asian art,...

Michi-no-Eki Fujikawa Rakuza

Mount Fuji views and a planetarium above the Tomei

A roadside station joined to the Tokyo-bound Fujikawa service area of the Tomei Expressway. On a ...

Nirayama Reverberatory Furnace

The Shogunate's Cannon Foundry in Izu, Four Brick Chimneys Finished in 1857

Two pairs of furnaces under four brick chimneys about 15.7 m tall, built by the shogunate between...

Lake Hamana

Eel, a Red Torii in the Water and a Sunset Lined Up in Winter

A brackish lagoon of about 65 square kilometres on the west side of Hamamatsu, open to the sea si...

Michi-no-Eki Ito Marine Town

A seaside onsen and dried fish on the Izu coast

A roadside station and harbour stop beside Ito Sunrise Marina on Route 135. Day-trip onsen baths ...

Sumatakyo Gorge

A Ten-Person Suspension Bridge over Turquoise Water

A gorge at the top of the Oi River valley where the Yume no Tsuribashi, a 90-meter footbridge, ha...

Kawazu Nanadaru Loop Bridge

A Road That Turns Two Full Circles to Climb 45 Meters, Inland from Kawazu

A road bridge on Route 414 that turns two full circles, each about 80 meters across, to climb 45 ...

Hamamatsu Castle

Tokugawa Ieyasu’s early career gives Hamamatsu Castle its historical focus. A reconstructed keep ...

Sunpu Castle Park

In central Shizuoka, moats and reconstructed gates outline the castle where Tokugawa Ieyasu spent...

Kakegawa Castle

A timber-reconstructed keep and surviving Edo-period palace make Kakegawa a rewarding contrast to...