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ShizuokaShrines & Temples
ShizuokaShrines & TemplesIzu
Tokko no Yu
Kukai is said to have struck the rock with his vajra and brought the water up. The beginning of Shuzenji Onsen.
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ShizuokaShrines & TemplesKakegawa
Okusu (Kotonomama)
A great camphor several hundred years old. The Pillow Book records the shrine as the deity who grants wishes as spoken.
ShizuokaShrines & TemplesIwata
Yanahime Jinja
It carries the legend of the divine dog Shippeitaro. Its naked festival is an Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property.
ShizuokaShrines & TemplesOyama
Fuji Sengen Shrine (Fujisan Higashiguchi Hongu), Oyama
The starting point of the Subashiri trail up Mount Fuji.
ShizuokaShrines & Temples
ShizuokaFestivalsShizuoka
Kunozan Ishidan
One thousand one hundred and fifty-nine stone steps, remembered by a Japanese pun on the number.
Shimada
Oigawa Kawagoshi
A horse may cross the eight leagues of Hakone, but no one crosses the Oi. The system of river porters survives here.
ShizuokaNature & Scenery
ShizuokaHot Springs
ShizuokaHot SpringsIzu
Shuzenji Onsen
The oldest hot spring town in Izu, with its bamboo lane and the Katsura river.
ShizuokaArchitectureKakegawa
Kakegawa-jo
The first fully wooden reconstructed keep in Japan. The Ninomaru palace is an Important Cultural Property.
ShizuokaCraft ExperiencesShimada
Oigawa Railway
The first place in Japan to bring steam locomotives back into working preservation.
ShizuokaNature & SceneryKawazu
Kawazu Nanadaru
Seven falls dropping over columnar basalt. The road of The Izu Dancer.
ShizuokaHistoric Districts
ShizuokaFestivalsHamamatsu
Hamamatsu Matsuri
On the Nakatajima dunes, great kites from 170 districts cut one another's lines.
ShizuokaNature & SceneryMakinohara
Makinohara
The largest tea-growing area in Japan, opened up by former shogunal retainers.
ShizuokaNature & Scenery