👍👍 I visited for the first time in 30 years with the feeling of a jungle park. Follow the beautiful road in the vast former park to reach the parking lot. I paid a parking fee of 500 yen, and since it was Monday, I parked in an empty parking lot and had lunch at the park house. The route to the lighth...

Southern tip of the Izu Peninsula, with a Shinto shrine & lighthouse on a rugged promontory.

😠 It’s quite a rip-off, because they are not wild monkeys, they are fed by people in this area. When we came, there were only about 20 monkeys waiting to be fed outside a big building. It’s not worth paying ¥1200.

👍 Located about 192 km (121 mi) southwest of Tokyo, it took me about 3 hours to drive there via several expressways and by-pass highways. The original lighthouse was built in 1871 by British engineer Richard Henry Brunton. The original wooden structure was destroyed in a severe windstorm in 1932. The...

👍👍 青野川沿いの桜並木から近い場所にあります。入園料は無料ですが桜祭の期間中の駐車場料金は500円掛かります。他の熱帯植物園には何回となく行きましたが久しぶりに入りました。温泉を利用した施設でハウス内には温泉パイプが引き込まれており暖かく植物の環境には最適ですね。昭和レトロ感のある施設ですが綺麗な色とりど...