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1658年に建てられた臨済宗の寺で、歴代の福井藩主の菩提寺として知られ、現在も当時のままの姿をとどめています。また、境内の西側には花菖蒲園があり、初夏には1万株が美しく咲き誇るスポットとしても有名です。
717年に開かれた白山信仰の拠点。広い境内はじゅうたんを敷き詰めたような美しい青苔で覆われています。
朱塗りの大鳥居は「日本三大木造大鳥居」の一つとされ、国の重要文化財です。また、境内にはパワースポットとしての人気も高い「長命水」と呼ばれる湧水もあります。
旧福井藩主・松平家の別邸で優美な書院建築と庭園は、江戸中期を代表する貴重な名園の一つです。
10月から4月末にかけて、大野盆地全体が雲海につつまれ、大野城が浮かんで見えることがあることから「天空の城」と呼ばれています。
1471年から103年間にわたりこの地を支配した戦国大名・朝倉氏の広大な城下町跡。特別史跡、特別名勝、重要文化財の三重指定を受けています。戦国時代の鎧兜や着物などの着付け体験（体験料／500円）も可能です。
1576年に築城され、日本で現存する天守閣としては最古のもの。「霞ヶ城」との別名を持ち、約400本の満開の桜の中に浮かぶ姿はとても美しく幻想的です。
世界遺産「紀伊山地の霊場と参詣道」の構成資産「熊野参詣道小辺路」沿いにある小さな集落です。壮大な果無山脈を見渡せる高地に位置していることから「天空の郷」とも呼ばれ、にほんの里100選にも選ばれています。晴天の日の眺めはもちろん、雨が降った時の霧が立ち上る山々も見どころです。
吉野山は日本一の桜の名所とも言われており、4月の上旬から中旬にかけて3万本ともいわれるシロヤマザクラが豪華絢爛に咲きみだれます。 また、吉野山は古代より山岳信仰の対象で、世界遺産「紀伊山地の霊場と参詣道」の構成資産「吉野・大峯」の一部となっています。
五條新町が生まれたのは、今から約400年前、関ヶ原の戦いの後、江戸幕府が成立してすぐの頃にさかのぼります。 江戸時代から現在にかけて、それぞれの時代の建造物が残る新町通は建築年代の判るものでは日本最古の民家があるなど、国から重要伝統的建造物群保存地区として指定されております。
古来より神在ります山として崇められた山岳仏教の霊場大山（だいせん）の信仰の中心が、大神山神社奥宮です。自然石を敷き詰めた長さ約７００メートルの参道の奥には壮大壮麗な社殿があり、夏山開きには二千人のたいまつ行列がここから出発します。
修験道の開祖と言われる役行者（えんのぎょうじゃ）が、その法力で投げ入れたと言われる投入堂は、三徳山の中腹の断崖絶壁に浮かぶように建っている。投入堂までの道中は、木の根や岩をよじ登るなど修験の険しい道が続くが、辿りついた先の絶景と達成感は格別。
伝統的建造物群保存地区に指定されている板井原集落。深緑の杉林の谷間に隠れ里のように広がる集落には、かやぶき屋根の古民家群、分校、神社、川の流れを利用した水車小屋、炭焼き小屋等々、日本の山村集落の原風景がそっくりそのまま残っています。
天然の岩窟内にある舞台造りの建物で、修験道寺院の建築として知られ、国の重要文化財として指定されています。本堂の不動明王は弘法大師３３歳の時に刻んだもので「日本三大不動明王」の一つだと言われています。
鳥取城跡にあり、桜の名所でもある久松公園に建つ白亜の洋館。フレンチ型ルネッサンス様式を基調とした木造瓦葺の2階建ての建物は、その外観の優雅さや日本庭園の美しさが相まって国の重要文化財として指定されています。
500年以上の伝統を持つ淡路の伝統芸能、淡路人形浄瑠璃を毎日上演する常設館。３人で１つの人形を操る技術は長年のトレーニングの賜物。淡路特有の文化や歴史にふれることができます。
1609年徳川家康の命により築かれた篠山城跡と、篠山城築城後商業の中心として栄えた昔の町並みが残る河原町妻入商家群では昔の雰囲気を感じることができます。
神戸の灘五郷
野崎観音は、天平勝宝年間頃、行基が本尊である十一面観音を刻み安置したことにより始まったと伝えられています。その後、一時荒廃していたものを平安時代、摂津江口の長者（江口の君）が難病治癒の御礼に現在の地に移し再興したと言われています。 境内は、緑豊かな自然に囲まれた場所で、眺めが良く、縁結び・安産・子授け・婦人病などに悩むあらゆる女性をお守りくださるとともに、病気平癒・身体健全の功徳があると言われています。 お土産屋さんもあり、ゆっくり一息できるパワースポットです。
大阪平野の東、生駒山麓に位置する石切劒箭(つるぎや)神社は、「石きりさん」の愛称で親しまれ「デンボ（腫れ物）の神さん」として古くから病気平癒にご利益があるとされ、「願いが叶うように」とお百度参りされる参拝者の姿が絶えません。また、古くからある漢方薬店や洋品、雑貨、和菓子、漬物店といった懐かしい風情の店が並ぶ昭和レトロな参道商店街も魅力です。
古代豪族、土師氏の氏神として創建され、一族出身の菅原道真公を祀る天満宮です。宝物館には､国宝である伝菅公遺品をはじめとして多くの貴重な文化財が所蔵されています。梅の名所として名高く、毎年2月から3月にかけて多くの参拝者が境内の梅園を訪れます。
池上曽根遺跡は、南北1.5km、東西0.6km、総面積60万㎡をこえる全国屈指の規模を持つ弥生時代の環濠集落です。集落の中心部約11万㎡が国の史跡となり、東西20メートル、南北7メートルにおよぶ大型建物「いずみの高殿」や直径２ｍをこえるくりぬき井戸「やよいの大井戸」、竪穴住居などが復元されています。また、弥生時代の生活を体験できる「弥生学習館」や弥生時代を専門とする「府立弥生文化博物館」も隣接しています。
From the Edo period to the Meiji period, "Awa Ai" indigo was traded here, in this streetscape full of merchant houses. On the second floor between buildings, extended walls called "udatsu" were built. At first they were built to prevent fires from spreading, but they quickly became a point of ornamental competition between houses, giving rise to the idiom "udatsu ga agaranai" meaning someone who can't get ahead in the world. In 1988, it was one of 28 places designated as an Important Group of Traditional Buildings.
Every year, the Oto Festival is held at Kamikura Shrine on February 6. It's amazing to see the participants holding burning torches in their hands as they run down the 538 steep stone steps of the road approaching the shrine.
The World Heritage Site, "Kumano Kodo". In ancient times, people came here to renew their spirit on this healing trail. The Kumano Kodo was also a location for imperial outings of retired emperors, and along the trail are "oji" shrines collectively called the 99 Ojis that are dedicated to the Kumano Mikogami gods. The retired emperors used to visit these ojis while traveling the long road.
The World Heritage Site, "Kumano Kodo". In ancient times, people came here to renew their spirit on this healing trail. Partway through the trail, there are spots where the peaks of the Kii Peninsula mountains can be seen. Hyakumengura is the most popular spot to view this sight.
Surrounded by eight peaks, it is as if Mt. Koya is surrounded by the petals of a lotus. Kobo Daishi (Kukai) opened the mountain as the basic training place for Shingon Buddhist secret teaching. Even today, many monks continue the teachings of Kukai, and continue to do ascetic training here. There are 52 pilgrims lodgings on the mountain, and visitors can experience the history and culture of Mt. Koya through vegetarian Buddhist cuisine or by attending a Buddhist religious service.
The object of worship at Kumano Nachi Shrine is the Nachi Waterfall, with the tallest water head in Japan. The roar of the falls and view of the forest of 800 year-old cedar trees is a spectacle.
The Kitan Strait is home to four islands: Jinoshima, Torajima, Kamishima, and Okinoshima. They are collectively known as Tomogashima. Regular boats leave from Kada port, and arrive at Okinoshima in approximately 20 minutes, where a hiking course that tours the fort remains is popular. Additionally, the western edge of island that cross through the meridian line of Japanese Standard Time (135 degrees east longitude) is home to the eighth white western-style lighthouse built in Japan, that helps to protect the comings and goings of ships in the strait even today.
Known as the home to a guardian deity of women, visitors to Awashima Shrine pray for easy childbirth and pregnancy. In the Hina-nagashi festival, the main hall is stuffed with doll festival dolls collected from all over the country. Dolls purified in the main hall are loaded into a wooden boat, and pulled into the gentle spring ocean harbor where a thousand paper cranes have been released into the water. The shops lining the road to the shrine sell fresh seafood such as sea snails, whitebait, and sea bream.
This is the main festival of Kishutoshogu shrine, which was built to honor Tokugawa Ieyasu, father of the first daimyo lord of Kishul. It was once counted among the three major festivals in Japan, and while it was not held for a time during the war, it has been passed down through 400 years of history. Kishu Toshogu has 108 steep stone steps, and one ton portable shrines are carried down these steps in the "Mikoshi Oroshi" ceremony which starts the festival. This is followed by a procession of approximately 1000 people who perform their many entertaining talents in the Togyo Gyoretsu, which is a soul-stirring and showing event.
The Mt. Koya Oku-no-in five-storied pagoda is a stone tower design unique to Japan that began towards the end of the Heian period and continues to the present day. The shape references the five elements that buddhist teachings say all things are made of: earth, water, fire, wind, and air. Said to be the first made, is at Sugen-in (Hidetaka Tokugawa, second generation shogun's wife Ogo) memorial tower was built in 1627, and it is the largest of the five-storied pagodas with 6.6m in height and a base size of 8 tatami mats. Even visitors from foreign countries with a long history of "stone culture" will be impressed by its size.
Inami Festival (Inami Hachiman Shrine – Yamaguchi Hachiman Shrine Festival) (Inami Hachiman Shrine Festival Wakayama Prefecture Intangible Cultural Asset)
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和歌山県日高郡印南町
The Inami Hachiman and Yamaguchi Hachiman festivals are held in advance of the other autumn festivals in the Kinan region. At the Yamaguchi Hachiman festival, six festival floats and portable shrines are carried to Inan Beach, where dances such as the Saiga Odori which has ties to the Kishu-Saiga group, Yakko Odori, and Shishimai are performed. Come to see the festival floats fiercely clash together. Alternatively, at Inan Hachiman, four festival floats and portable shrines jump into the Inan river, and the men dressed in festival costumes carry the floats across the river while up to their shoulders in water, which is an incredible sight to see. The river crossing ceremony is very rare, nationally.
The magnificence of the world's longest suspension bridge, the Akashi Kaikyo Ohashi. The length of the space between the pillars on the Akashi Kaikyo Ohashi is the longest in the world. There are many places to view the elegance of the bridge's shape, and at night when it is lit-up, but the best place to truly experience the size of the bridge and the fusion of nature and the massive man-made architectural structure, is the Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Park directly adjacent to the bridge. It also has historical appeal, and is an ideal addition to a new one hundred Kansai views. (There is also a tour where visitors can experience a 360 degree panoramic view from the top of the bridge's pillar at Bridge World from April to November (every week from Thursday to Sunday, and on Holidays))
Castle in the Sky Takeda Castle Ruins (Wadayama, Asago City, hyogo Prefecture)
Location:
兵庫県朝来市
Takeda Castle Ruins, the Castle in the Sky of hyogo Prefecture's Asago City is known as the Machu Picchu of Japan. This photo of the castle ruins was taken from the castle ruins atop the mountain path. The view from the castle ruins is so different from most Japanese scenery that it will make the viewer think, "Is this really Japan?" The vast view is truly breathtaking. It is a place worth a visit.
This festival is held every October in Shirahama, Himeji, at the Matsubara Hachiman Shrine. See a soul-stirring religious ceremony featuring a parade of floats before the shrine and hall of worship, and the clashing together of festival floats. Last year a Thai TV station came to film the event, and a Hong Kong magazine also came to report on it. Interest about the festival from overseas is growing.
The Koya Highway connects the old capital of Kyoto with the world heritage site Mt. Koya. Since ancient times, it has been lively with worshippers heading to and from Mt. Koya. From Kawachinagano Station to Mikkaichicho Station, important cultural properties Nagano Shrine, Eboshigata Hachiman Shrine, registered cultural properties Saijo Goshigaisha former shop, the Yagike house, and more can be found, in a streetscape rich with historical atmosphere. In recent years, the streets have been decorated by local citizens groups with things like "sugitama" cedar balls and lanterns, to welcome visitors to the Koya Highway.
It is uncertain when and who built Kishiwada Castle, but it came into being during the Sengoku period (mid-16th century) and it was the residence of the Matsuuras, who governed the Senshu region. During the Edo period, Kishiwada Castle was used to protect south Osaka, and it played an important role in helping the Bakufu control the western part of the country. In front of the castle keep, is the Hachijin Garden, designed by leading garden designer Shigemori Mirei, and even today the castle is famous as a spot for a castle wedding.
In the Open-Air Museum of Old Japanese Farm Houses see the nostalgic old Japanese way of life with representative farm houses from all parts of Japan that have been dismantled and reconstructed on the site. This was Japan's first outdoor museum. From Iwate Prefecture in the north, to Kagoshima Prefecture in the south, there are 11 farm houses collected on the site. All of the farm houses were originally built in the 17-19th centuries (the Edo period), and people were living in them until the late-1950s. Also on display are Kuribune boats from Amamioshima and San'in, and a windmill from Sakai. Hattori Ryokuchi Park is the location of the Open-Air Museum Of Old Japanese Farm Houses, which is a green tract of land 33 times the size of the Koshien baseball stadium, chosen as one of Japan's hundred best city parks, and Japan's hundred historical parks, and loved as a place of relaxation and refreshment.
Built to protect the Southwest corner of the capital, also known as the unlucky quarter, this role was transferred to it from Usamiya in 859. It is one of Japan's three great Hachiman shrines. The rare Hachiman-style shinto shrine is a nationally designated important cultural property, and the precint is also designated a national historical site. Additionally, the Otokoyama mountain where the Ishiwashimizu Hachimangu grounds are located has beautiful cherry blossoms and fall leaves, and Mt. Tennozan, and the point where three rivers Katsuragawa, Ujigawa, and Kizugawa merge can be seen from the viewing platform.
This public festival is the most famous of Nagaokakyo City, based on the theme of the tale of love and emotion about the daughter of Akechi Mitsuhide, Tama (aka Hosokawa Garasha), who went to marry the eldest son of Hosokawa Fujitaka, Hosokawa Tadaoki. The festival is based on Tama's bridal procession, with a parade of people wearing historical costumes. The fun takes over the whole city with outdoor booths selling food, drink, and other items, and stage performances.
It is the headquarters of Seizan Jodo Buddhism and believed to be built by Naozane Kumagai (Renjo), one of the disciples of Honen, in 1198. The temple, located at the foot of the green west mountains, is surrounded by nature for all four seasons. The temple is especially known for its breathtaking fall foliage and the tunnel of maple leaves, but the fresh green and the green leaves of the same maple tree in the summer as well as the snowscape in the winter are also a sight worth seeing.
Maizuru, known for its navy district, has many remaining red brick buildings, but the most recommended is the Maizuru Brick Park. Surrounded on three sides by red brick walls, the area is nostalgic and fun. A variety of events including concerts and shows are held inside the buildings, where an air of the early 1900s remains.
Centered on a pond shaped like the sanskrit letter "A, with the Healing Buddha in the east and the Amitabha Buddha in the west of the garden, this designated place of scenic beauty and history represents paradise. The main temple (a national treasure) contains a concealed buddhist statue of Kichijotennyo (an important cultural property), and nine seated Amida Buddha statues (national treasures), and another name for the temple is Kutaiji. The temple is number sixteen in the list of Kansai's flower temples, and flowers can be found blooming here throughout the four seasons.
This castle was built under orders from Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu over the course of approximately 20 years from 1604. The castle is well-preserved, looking much like its original form, a rarity for Japanese castles. It is also a designated national treasure. The castle keep looks out over Lake Biwa, and it is particularly beautiful during cherry blossom season in spring, and when the autumn leaves turn red. It is also known for its mascot, one of the most popular in Japan, Hiko-nyan. Come to the castle and meet the adorable Hiko-nyan.
Enryaku-ji temple on Mt. Hiei is the head temple of the Tendai Sect, with over 1200 years of history, and it was designated a World Heritage Site in 1994. Enjoy beautiful scenery such as cherry blossoms in spring and red leaves in autumn, and look out on Japan's largest lake, Lake Biwa, also known as the Pond of the Healing Buddha. In this atmosphere full of gravity as the training ground for Tendai Sect members, visitors can enjoy a serene and quiet moment trying zazen meditation and copying Buddhist scripture.
A regular favorite among Japanese cycling fans is the course around Lake Biwa. Recently, visitors from overseas bring their bicycles here and enjoy the beautiful scenery and streetscapes as well as delicious food while biking around the lake. A trip around Lake Biwa is a perfect way to experience a condensed "Japan".
The statue of Buddha in Shakudo-ji temple is made from a single zelkova tree, and the red of the lips remain today. It is said that in ancient times it was a brightly colored statue. The gently curved figure clothed in flowing robes has always given visitors an impression of mildness and calm. Keisoku-ji temple is known as the most famous spot for autumn leaves in the Omi region, with gently sloped stone steps leading up to the temple flanked on either side by moss-covered stone walls, and over 200 old Japanese maple trees.
The origin of suigo meguri can be traced back four hundred years to when Toyotomi Hidetsugu, a nephew of Toyotomi Hideyoshi went boating, a recreational activity often enjoyed by the imperial court. Look out on clumps of reeds, listen to the oars and the chirping of birds, smell the water and reeds, and feel the rocking of the rowboat...experience nature while eating piping hot sukiyaki on board the boat. Sukiyaki served on the Suigo Meguri is popular at any time of year.
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