Location: Numazu
Top Things to do in Numazu
Top 10 Things to do in Numazu, Japan
Discover the best top things to do in Numazu, Japan including Gempeigawa River, Kakitagawa Park, Osezaki, Izunokuni Panorama Park, Surugawan Numazu SA, Mishima Taisha Shrine, Sun To Moon Kakitagawa, Numazu Deep Sea Aquarium, Izu Mito Sea Paradise, Numazu Port.
Restaurants in Numazu
1. Gempeigawa River
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 95 reviews
Reviewed By snowy_and_sunny - Minnesota
The river is a peaceful walk along stepping stones. Bring binoculars, but I did not see any kingfishers on my visit. Maps are available at the tourist information area near the train station.
2. Kakitagawa Park
Overall Ratings
4 based on 194 reviews
Reviewed By BACIXXX - TOKYO
三島駅から歩いて、約1時間。柿田川公園は富士山の伏流水による湧水公園です。豊富な湧水と豊かな緑が散策しながら楽しめます。振り向けば、大きな富士山を望むことができる。子供が遊べるような水場も整備してあり、清潔なトイレもあります。公園内に蕎麦レストランがあります。
Walk from Mishima Station, about 1 hour. Kakita-River Park is a spring water park by the underflow water of Mt. Fuji. Enjoy and explore the abundant spring waters and lush greenery. You can see the big Mt.Fuji. There are water park for children to play, big parking, Japanese Soba restaurant and clean toilets.
3. Osezaki
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 115 reviews
Reviewed By Rajesh T - Pokhara, Nepal
This is an wonderful place that nature offered us. Nice ocenic scenery, Mountains views, beautiful view of Mt. Fuji, a beautiful small lake with beautiful forest garden and Japanese Temple, a place for divers and many things to enjoy. It's people are nice. In addition we enjoyed free mochi, a Japanese food especially serve in new year. It was great fun.
Overall Ratings
4 based on 184 reviews
Reviewed By redeyeblues - Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Unbelievable views of Mount Fuji, the ocean, and surrounding Mountains! There's a restaurant as well as free foot hot spring both facing Mount Fuji... breathtaking! Lots of short little easy trails with little things to see. A very short walk from the bus stop (10 minutes 170 yen from Izu-Nagaoka Station, no SUICA). We spent about an hour up top. The cable car is a bit scary but totally worth it! Highly recommend on a clear day!
5. Surugawan Numazu SA
Overall Ratings
4 based on 180 reviews
Reviewed By hosakin - 福岡
名前の通り駿河湾が一望。土日祝日行楽時は小型車の駐車スペースが不足し、大型車駐車スペースへ誘導される大規模なサービスエリア。ツタヤにスタバも有り。ショッピングモールみたい。高速トイレ休憩以上の価値大です。
6. Mishima Taisha Shrine
Overall Ratings
4 based on 373 reviews
Reviewed By roy v - Traralgon, Australia
While staying with friends in Mishima we were taken to see this lovely Shinto Shrine.
Quite a decent size complex with a lot of very old history, some lovely stone carvings and well set up & maintained Gardens
At the front entrance which is right on the main road you go through a great stone Tori Gate, a bit further on to the left is a little island area in the waterway which contain a very attractive small shrine with an amazing curved lantern.
There were plenty of priests and their helpers about all dressed in traditional clothes as there were three weddings happening, the brides and grooms all looked great in their traditional wedding outfits.
Easy place to get too right in town and a must place to visit , we loved it .
7. Sun To Moon Kakitagawa
Overall Ratings
3.5 based on 21 reviews
Reviewed By dai t - Kawasaki-shi, Kanagawa, Japan
沼津三島近辺では場所、内容含め一番手の郊外型ショッピングセンターです。近くに柿田川公園もあるのでちょっとしたピクニック気分も味わえます。
8. Numazu Deep Sea Aquarium
Overall Ratings
4 based on 262 reviews
Hours of Operation will be changed to 10:00-19:00 in July and August.
Reviewed By i0kan - Tokyo, Japan
This looked fascinating: a deep sea aquarium! Not just any fish, but weird creatures from the bottom of the sea. And the fact that the aquarium only had Japanese reviews made it even more mysterious.
Only one drawback: the city of Numazu is very difficult to reach. From Tokyo it takes two local trains, a Shinkansen (high speed train) and a lengthy taxi ride. The alternative is to travel by car, which takes about 120 minutes (do mind the extremely expensive toll roads!).
The deep sea aquarium is located in Numazu because this city is located between the highest mountain of Japan (mount Fuji) and the deepest sea. Several of the fish on display have been caught by local fisherman.
The aquarium takes up two storeys of which only the bottom one houses live animals (fish, crustacean, molluscs and more). So the name "deep sea museum" might be more appropriate, because half of the creatures on display are dead. The others live at a depth of up to 500 metres and seem to be in good health in the aquarium. Tanks are cooled and/or kept in the dark if appropriate. Most impressive is the pitch black tank with light emitting fish. Do not expect any big, weird creatures from the deep lurking around.
The centre piece of the aquarium consists of two frozen and three stuffed coelacanths plus a lot of documentation about them.
If you like Aquariums and you want to see something different, then this is the place to go. On request the staff will hand out an English booklet and the names of all the fish are displayed in both English and Japanese.
9. Izu Mito Sea Paradise
Overall Ratings
4 based on 135 reviews
Reviewed By MisterPugz - Odawara, Japan
After our disappointing visit to Awashima the day before, we weren't sure what to expect at Sea Paradise. It turned out to be much more lively though, with better-maintained exhibits, animals that performed their tricks well (if you're into that sort of thing) and actually some crowds - no ghost-town atmosphere at all. In fact, at one point I was surprised to see it was built in around 1977, it feels somewhat newer than that (although there's some obvious signs of age around).
Dolphin show was one of the more impressive that I've seen, particularly the lady Surfing on the back of dolphins and high jumping off their snouts. Between shows, it is possible and relatively cheap to take a small row boat ride in the dolphin pool and to pat them (my daughter tells me their skin feels like eggplant). The more adventurous can also be in the boat during one of the dolphin shows, which I've never seen at an aquarium before.
Other shows were similarly impressive and a bit unusual. For example there is an absolutely huge sea lion, who wasn't being entirely co-operative but eventually pulled off some surprising stunts considering how big he was. Disturbing on some level, but still compelling viewing.
There were some other random things the kids enjoyed, like Halloween dress up costumes to try on free and take photos of. Photos were also taken by the aquarium staff on entry and in the dolphin boat rides. We would have liked to have those, and the quality was good, but they were asking 1,000 yen each, which is absurd. We probably would have bought them at 500 yen each.
Penguins looked a bit sad, and some of the tank exhibits were not nearly as good as in world-class Aquariums, but for a small town location in Japan this ended up being surprisingly good overall. Food at the cafeteria was quick but not particularly good quality. On the other hand, jellyfish icecream served near the dolphin pool was really quite tasty!
10. Numazu Port
Overall Ratings
4 based on 280 reviews
Reviewed By Mike J - Numazu, Japan
The port has some nice seafood shops and restaurants which is what Numazu is famous for. Parking can be a little difficult at peak times however. There is also an aquarium which I didn't visit as it looked a little small for the price (1600 yen for one adult).
Overall worth a visit, especially if you like fish.
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