This shrine has attracted patrons since olden days seeking out deities for women to bless their marriages, help recover from female ailments, ensure the safe delivery of babies and provide fertility.

• Approx. 20-min walk from Kada Station

The shrine hall features Momoyama Period architecture fine enough to have it designated a national treasure up to the pre-War era. The shrine is notable for its fine carvings.

• Approx. 8-min walk from Kada Station

This is a naval defense fort from the Meiji Period, with bricks that give a strong glimpse into life back then. There is an amazing view from the observation deck where one can catch a sweeping view of the island of Tomogashima.

• Approx. 50-min walk from Kada Station

Famous for its big hamburger and Pancake. Accomodation is located next to this café as well!

• Adress : 103 Isonoura, Wakayama-shi, Wakayama
• Access : 10min. on foot from Isonoura station
• Open hours : 10:00 to 18:00 (Last order 17:00)
  19:30 to 22:00 (Fridays,Saturdays, days before holiday)
• Closed : Tuesday

You can spend special relaxing time with the great view of the sea right in front of you. They are using fresh foodstuffs, and there are so many variety of foods on their menu.

• Address : 386-2 Isonoura, Wakayama-shi, Wakayama
• Access : 5min. on foot from Isonoura station
• Open hours : 9:00 to 17:00 (Closed after sunset)
• Closed : Thursday

There are many highlights here, including the stone wall made from a blue stone unique to the Kishu region. Visitors will enjoy its beauty in all seasons - the cherry blossoms in the spring and the leaf colors in the autumn.

• (Donjon of Wakayama Castle)
• Address : 3 Ichibancho, Wakayama-shi, Wakayama
• Access: 10min. on foot from Wakayamashi station
• Open : 9:00 to 17:30
  (gates close at 17:00)
• Fee : Adults 410yen; children
  (elementary and JH students) 200yen
• Closed : Dec. 29 to 31

This is stop number 2 along the 33 stops of the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage. A beautiful vista awaits those who climb the 231 stone steps. This temple is famous for its higan cherry trees, the first to bloom in the Kansai area.

• Address : 1201 Kimiidera, Wakayama-shi, Wakayama
• Get off at 'Kimiidera' stop on the bus from Wakayamashi Station

Enshrined here are Tosho Daigongen, the deified spirit of Ieyasu Tokugawa, the first shogun of the Edo shogunate, and Nanryu Daijin, the deified spirit of Yorinobu Tokugawa, the first feudal lord of the Kishu Domain. The vermilion-painted tower gate should not be missed.

• Address : 2-1-20 Wakaura-nishi, Wakayama-shi, Wakayama
• Get off at 'Gongen-mae' stop on the bus from Wakayamashi Station

It was reconstructed in its current form in 1937. The vermillion pagoda is 48.5 meters in height and has the 4 statues of Kongokai Shibutsu (the 4 Buddhas in the Diamond World) installed in a circle with the statue of Taizokai Dainichi Nyorai (the Buddha in the Womb-Store World) placed at the center. Various bodhisattvas are depicted in brilliant colors on the 16 pillars and walls of the pagoda representing a mandala world.

• Open : 8:30 to 17:00
• Fee : 500yen (children under elementary school: free)
• Get off from the bus from 'Koyasan Station' at 'Kondomae'

This is the head temple for the Shingon sect of Buddhism on Koyasan, and the religious affairs of the 3,600 branch temples across Japan are handled here. Visitors can see rooms with splendid fusuma separators painted by historical painters, the magnificent kitchen, as well as Hidetsugu-jijin-no-ma (the room where Hidetsugu committed seppuku).

• Open : 8:30 to 17:00
  (entrance is closed after 16:30)
• Fee : Junior High students and older: 1,000yen; Elementary students: 300yen
• Get off the bus from 'Koyasan Station' at 'Kongobu-ji-mae'

After the death of Kobo Daishi, his disciples built this mausoleum in the area beside the Tamagawa stream. Many people still visit this place today venerating it as the central holy grounds for their faith in Kobo Daishi.

• Get off the bus from 'Koyasan Station' at 'Okunoin-mae' or 'Okunoin-guchi'

We recommend this vegetarian meal set--it's politely laid out, it's delicious and it's good for you. They offer local tastes and seasonal ingredients, like sesame tofu, tofu skin, seasonal wild vegetables, all in tasty and healthful meal. Their soy-and-barley rice is highly acclaimed. They use dishes locally made by an artisan with a kiln on Koyasan.

• Open : 10:00 to 17:00
• Irregular closing days
• Get off the bus from 'Koyasan Station' at 'Senjuin-bashi'

The Kudoyama/Sanada Museum opened in Kudoyama, where Yukimura Sanada is said to have lived the longest in his life, to commemorate the NHK Taiga Drama 'Sanada-maru'. Here you'll learn all about the life of Yukimura Sanada and his father in Kudoyama.

This is a temple built on the site where the manor stood that Yukimura Sanada and his father Masayuki lived in hiding. On the premises is the kaminari fuuji no i (Well of Captured Thunder), where legend tells of how Yukimura captured thunder to save villagers, as well as the Sanada Repository of Treasures. The large blooming peony in spring at the Sanada Manor are a must-see.

• Address : Kudoyama, Kudoyama-cho, Ito-gun, Wakayama
• Sanada Repository of Treasures
• Open : 9:00 to 16:00
• Fee : 200yen
• Closed : End of year and beginning of New Year
• Approx. 10-min walk from 'Kudoyama Station'

Jison-in Temple has long been known to be the temple of the mother of Kobo Daishi Kukai. It is affectionately called the Koya for Women since Koyasan was off limits to women. The temple is an extreme rarity in Japan where breast-shaped votive tablets are given as offerings for the numerous prayers made for successful pregnancy, safe births, rasing children safely, smooth breastfeeding, and for convalescence from illnesses. Recent years have seen the number of prayers for convalescence from breast cancer increase in particular, with many women visiting the shrine to prayer with fervor.

• Address : 832 Jisonin, Kudoyama-cho, Ito-gun, Wakayama
• Approx. 30-min walk from 'Kudoyama Station