Genji firefly of Masubuchi River
The Genji firefly habitat in the Karukome area, which stretches 1.5km from Iwabuchi Bridge in the middle reaches of the Masubuchi River, was designated as a national natural monument on ......
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Sightseeing
Introducing tourist attractions, historical sites, etc. in the Yonekawa area
Chikubusan Daihiin Kesokuji Temple
Chikubusan Daihi-in Kasoku-ji is a subsidiary temple of Chishaku-in of the Chizan sect of the Shingon sect, and its principal image is Bato Kanzeon Bodhisattva. It is said to be ......
Masubuchi Castle Ruins
It was the residence of Kii Oikawa, a vassal of Kasai.The castle is a small mountain castle measuring 72m from north to south and 24m from east to west, but ......
Wakakusa Inari Shrine
It is said to have been founded in the 3rd year of Tennobu (975), and was called Inari Daimyo Shrine during the Edo period. The deity enshrined here is the ......
Yonekawa Hachiman Shrine
This shrine is said to have been built here in 1062 by Minamoto no Yoriyoshi and Yoshiie after their victory over Abe Sadato. After that, the shrine fell into disrepair ......
Monument of Goto Juan
Juan was a Christian samurai who served Date Masamune and had a fief of 1,200 koku in Fukuhara, Mizusawa. In 1623, unable to withstand the oppression of Christians, he abandoned ......
Horinzan Daijiji Temple
Daijiji Temple was originally a Tendai sect temple founded by the Oshu Fujiwara clan and was called Suwamori Daijiji Temple. After the downfall of the Fujiwara clan, the temple underwent ......
Sankyozuka Christian Ruins
Uminashizawa Sankyozuka is one of the mounds where 120 Christians working in the Tsunagi mines were executed and buried in three locations during the Kyoho era, and it is the ......
Umanoashi Park
In 1997, using the Towa Town Mountainous Area Revitalization Project Subsidy and with the cooperation of landowners, it was completed as a regional rural park. This place has been a ......
Catholic Yonekawa Church
In 1955, an old book called "Robun hei Densetsuki" was discovered in the Onodera family's (Iwaki mansion) in Tsunaginosawa. There is a section in this book called "The origin of ......
Ogarasawa Christian Cave
Since the Eiroku era (around 1558), Christianity, which has been propagated together with the iron-making method, spread throughout the area, including Okago, Oinogawara, and Magome, during the Eiroku and Keicho ......
Hatooka Castle Ruins
The castle continued for 230 years, from when Kasai's vassal, Nobuaki Koshiro Kikegawa, became the lord of Orugawara Castle in 1360 and was given more than 300 kan of land, until ......