Historical Monument Spots in Fukushima Area
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- Sazaedo
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4.0360 Reviews - Travel / Tourism
- Fukushima Pref. Aiduwakamatsushi Ikkimachiyahata Bentenshita 1404
- Sazaedo is a hexagonal, three-storied hall built in 1796. It is located on Mt. Iimori, Aizuwakamatsu City, famous for Byakkotai (a group of young samurai called the white tiger corps). It is also called “Sazae-do” because it resembles the shape of a turban shell. It has a mysterious corridor and when you ascend the unique double spiral stairwell before you know it, you are descending again. Thirty-three Saigoku Kannon Statues are placed on the slope and the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage to 33 Buddhist temples is said to be completed on reaching the top. It was designated as an Important Cultural Property of the country in 1996.
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A Buddhist temple which was Constructed in 1796 entirely from wood, Sazaedo has a double-helix structure, meaning that those who enter Sazaedo will leave the temple without encountering anybody...
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- Aizu Samurai School Nisshinkan
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4.559 Reviews - Travel / Tourism
- Fukushima Pref. Aiduwakamatsushi Kawahigashimachiminamikouya Takatsukayama 10
- The Nisshikan is a place of learning built in 1803 for the purpose of raising personnel within the Aizu clan. 10-year old children in the Aizu clan would come here to liberal and martial arts, and Byakkotai was also trained here. The original building burned down, but it has been completely recreated in the residential district of Aizu Wakamatsu using the original plans. The archery and martial arts gyms are open and utilized for a variety of purposes, including orientations, training camps, and on-location tv shoots. It offers experiences with zazen (seated meditation), tea ceremony, and archery for the general public.
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會津藩校日新館を訪れました。 もとは鶴ヶ城近くにあったそうですが、新たにここに建てられ、展示しているそう。 学芸員の説明が丁寧。 施設内をご案内いただきました。
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- Yamatogawa Sake Brewery Northern Museum
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4.043 Reviews - Travel / Tourism
- Fukushima Pref. Kitakatashi Teramachi 4761
- Established in 1790, this is an old sake brewery shop. Various sake making tools are displayed in the oldest warehouse, “Edo Warehouse”, built during the Edo period. You can also see in part how sake was made in those days. In the shop on the premises there is a sake tasting corner where you can taste over 10 different kinds of Yauemon rice wine for free. You can enjoy tasting as well as purchasing the sake which has been made from chosen local ingredients for local consumption.
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喜多方でラーメンを食べた後に無料で見学出来るこちらを知り訪れました。 既に知り得た知識ではありますが、精米歩合の話や展示物、お酒が出来るまでの工程やそれらを担っていた道具などもあり、日本酒好きなら確実に楽しめます。 こちらの酒造(現在は別の場所)で作られた日本酒も試飲出来るので、購入を考えているなら味を知ることも出来ます。 なかなか高級なお酒も飲めますが、最上級のお酒だけは有料となります。 (いろ...
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- Kitakata Kura no Sato
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4.039 Reviews - Travel / Tourism
- Fukushima Pref. Kitakatashi Oshikiri 2-109
- Kitakata Kura no Sato was created to communicate kurazukuri (warehousing) culture to the next generation. On the expansive 4,500 square meter lot, there are the misegura (shop dwellings), misogura (miso storehouse), and kurazashiki (city storehouse) centered around the garden, recreating Japan’s ancient landscape. Kitakata specialties and souvenirs are available for purchase at the “Kyu-kanbokuke Misegura”, formerly a drapery store. Try out a challenging quiz on Kitakata Kura no Sato, and receive a gift to remember your trip.
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蔵の町喜多方の蔵について学ぶことができる民俗資料館です。実際の蔵に資料が展示されているため、より深く学ぶことができます。
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- The Aizu Bukeyashiki - Samurai Residence
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- Fukushima Pref. Aiduwakamatsushi Higashiyamamachishiyama Innai 1
- An outdoor museum featuring the Edo period Aizu residential complex of Saigo Tanomo, along with the old Nakahata encampment, a tea house, a rice mill, and other buildings of historical interest on the grounds. It is a comprehensive cultural facility built for the purpose of disseminating and transferring the history and culture of Aizu on a site of about 23,100 square meters. There are also shops and restaurants, and it is also possible to purchase special products and dine. You can experience the culture of Aizu by painting Akabeko (red bull dolls) and Okiagari Koboshi (papier-mâché roly-poly dolls of priests). (Reservations required)
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会津若松の名物料理をあれこれ食べたくてセットメニューがあるお店を探していたところ、会津武家屋敷に併設されたレストランにそういうメニューがあったので訪ねました。 わっぱ飯、会津蕎麦、こづゆ、棒鱈煮付け、にしんの山椒煮など食べたいと思っていたものが揃っていました。一緒に地酒をいただけば完璧です！武家屋敷見学に合わせて是非オススメです。
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- Fukushima City Minka-en
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- Fukushima Fukushima-shi Kaminagura Oishi Maeji
- A cultural preservation establishment located in the Azuma Sports Park in Oishimae, Kaminagura, Fukushima City. It contains houses from the prefecture's northern area and the Aizu area that were first built between the mid-Edo Period and the mid-Meiji Period and the moved and reconstructed. The onsite museum has exhibits around the theme of Home Life and there's a hands-on area with straw craft and classic toys.
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One of my favorite places in Fukushima City. There are events and workshops on some weekends and public holidays which are amazing, but it is still really interesting on a quiet weekday when there...
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- Fukunishi Main Store
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4.06 Reviews - Travel / Tourism
- Fukushima Aizuwakamatsu-shi Nakamachi 4-16
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野口英世青春通りの野口英世青春館のすぐ近くにあります。会津若松の大商家である福西家が建てた蔵と商家ですが、建築されたのは100年ほど前とそれほど古いわけではないです。会津若松の名産に漆喰がありますが、黒漆喰が使われているこちらはより貫録がありますね。
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- Kurayashiki Azumasa
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- Fukushima Pref. Kitakatashi Higashimachi 4109
- This restaurant and souvenir shop located in Kitakata City, Fukushima Prefecture operates out of a remodeled old Japanese warehouse and home complex which once belonged to the top rice merchant in the prefecture. The restaurant side of the establishment serves handmade soba noodles created with Aizu-grown buckwheat, and dengaku roasted dishes made with a signature miso paste. The store side carries Aizu specialty products and local souvenirs such as regional sakes, lacquerware, and folk crafts.
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- Yunokami-Onsen Station
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- Fukushima Minamiaizu-gun Shimogomachi Yuno Kamioshima Otsu 74
- An Aizu Railway, Aizu Line station located in Shimogo Town, Minamiaizu County, Fukushima Prefecture. The station is one of only two in the country with a thatched roof like that of an old-fashioned Japanese home. The station's waiting area has an irori sunken hearth and other old-fashioned accoutrements and the hearth is kept lit for visitors when staff are working. The station was selected as one of the 100 best stations in the Tohoku region in 2002 and is visited by many tourists.
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- Tenkyokaku
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- Fukushima Pref. Yamaguninawashiromachi Okinazawa Godenyama 1048
- A historic Renaissance-style Western building located in Inawashiro Town, Yama County, Fukushima Prefecture. The building was used as a villa by Prince Arisugawa Takehito. Today, visitors can enjoy a cup of tea in the tea room. For a small fee, women can try on and take pictures in period Western-style dresses. Visited by large numbers of tourists, the building has been selected as a National Important Cultural Property.
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- Fukushima State Guest House
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- Fukushima Yama-gun Inawashiromachi Okinazawa Hatakeda 1072-4
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- Former Igarashi Family Residence
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- Fukushima Kawanuma-gun Aizubangemachi Todera Daimon 1466
- This mid-Edo period (1603-1867) residence is located next to Eryuji Temple. About 15.5 meters in length and 6.5 meters between the beams and with 117.19 square meters of floor area, the rural middle-class farmhouse, in which calligraphy dated 1729 has been found on a beam sheath, is in the flat part of Aizu. It is characterized having no foundation and the pillars are built directly on boulders. There are no ceilings in any room and there is an earthen floor where straw and woven mats are directly from the earthen floor, which gives us a glimpse of the life of the common people at that time.
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- Kubota Sanjusan Kannon Statues
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- Fukushima Kawanuma-gun Yanaizumachi Kubota Chinai
- "These 33 statues of Kannon are located on a small hill in the Kubota district of Yanaizu Town. 11 statues of Avalokitesvara, 12 of Sahasra-bhuja, five of Cintamanicakra, three of Ekadasamukha, and two of Hayagriva are enshrined on approximately 500-meter-high Mt. Kannon. One of the statues of Kannon, also known as ""Mawari Kannon,"" is a rare statue of Kannon holding a cross in her hand. There is also an expressive statue of Kannon called ""Maria Kannon."" In the past, the Kubota area located in a mountain gorge had no doctor, and many women passed away during childbirth. Kannon worship came about by the villagers who prayed for easy delivery and good health, and has been passed down to the present day without interruption."
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- Site of Former Residence of Naoe Kanetsugu / Birthplace of Soko Yamaga
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- Fukushima Aizuwakamatsu-shi Yamaga Machi 1-25
- This historic site is located northwest of Tsuruga Castle. A monumental stone, bathed in sunshine through the trees, stands in a prime location from the Gamo period (1593-1627). This area, where the large residence of the chief retainer and others was once place, is where the residence of Kagekatsu Uesugi's consul, Kanetsugu Naoe, was located. The land is said to have been given by Kagekatsu Uesugi, who moved to Aizu, worth over 216 million liters of rice, as its castle lord in 1598. It was the birthplace of Soko Yamaga, a military strategist who later had a great influence on the thinkers of the late Edo period (1603-1867). Born in 1622, he is known as the man who educated the 47 samurai in the Ako incident.
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- Rinkaku
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- Fukushima Aizuwakamatsu-shi Otemachi 1-1 Tsurugajo Park
- This teahouse is located within Tsuruga Castle Park, where there is a castle once said to be impregnable. You can enjoy a cup of tea while looking at the garden, which changes in appearance with the different seasons. The teahouse, which was moved and restored to its original location inside Tsuruga Castle in 1990, is the hermitage where Ujisato Gamo, the lord of the Aizu domain, allowed Shoan, adopted son of Sen no Rikyu, to stay in order to promote the tea ceremony. The Soan-style teahouse is unusual in eastern Japan in that its framed motto is dedicated to the founder of the three main schools of the tea ceremony. You can also enjoy powdered green tea and mountain yam buns while remembering Shoan.
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- Wakaki Shoten Shimagaki no Kurazashiki
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- Fukushima Kitakata-shi 3-4786
- "These are the first brick warehouses built in Kitakata, and date back to 1904. They include three-story equipment stores and two-story zashikigura (tatami-room style) warehouses at the back of Wakaki Shoten, a soy sauce and miso maker that dates back to 1755. Kitakata, famous as a brick town, built many brick warehouses due to a big fire in 1880. The brick zashikigura offers a Western atmosphere even as it holds a traditional Japanese tatami room inside. The first floor ""Shimagaki no Ma"" is completely done in striped persimmon wood, including the ceilings, trim, pillars, and even the hibachi pot trimmings. The second floor is the ""Keyaki no Ma"", and is outfitted with luxurious fittings of Japanese zelkova wood."
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- Kanozu Checkpoint (Former Hasebe Family Residence)
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- Fukushima Minamiaizu-gun Tadamimachi
- A former checkpoint from the Warring States period along the Hachijurigoe road which connected Aizu and Echigo. It has been designated as an Important Cultural Property of Fukushima Prefecture. The building features high ceilings and a secret room and will make you feel you've slipped back in time. Behind the guardhouse is the Former Igarashi Family Residence which is said to have been built 300 years ago and has been designated as an Important Cultural Property of Japan. It's free to visit and view.
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- Omomo no Butai
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- Fukushima Minamiaizu-gun Minamiaizumachi Omomo
- This farming village kabuki stage was built on the grounds of the Komagatake Shrine in 1895. The stage, which is a reconstruction of an older stage, is 7.64 meters wide and 8.56 meters deep. It features a kabuto-zukuri style thatched gabled roof with a small eave on the front. This uncommon style of roof is named after its resemblance to a samurai helmet. The stage features a central elevated fixed second stage of double steps located behind the front stage. Printed paper screens can be installed in front of and behind the second stage. There is also an area behind the second stage with a floor at one step lower height as the second stage that serves as a green room. The stage, which is a National Important Tangible Folk Cultural Property, hosts performances of regional performing arts every year in early August.
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- Hinoemata Stage
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- Fukushima Minamiaizu-gun Hinoematamura Idaira 670
- Kabuki theater in Hinoemata Village was originally performed as offerings to the local tutelary deity that were also enjoyed by villagers. Due to the religious nature of the performances, the stage, which is shaped like a worship hall, was built facing the local shrine. The current stage is an 1897 reconstruction of the original, which was lost in a large fire in 1893. It was designated as a National Important Tangible Folk Cultural Property in 1976.
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- Group of Itakura Homes
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- Fukushima Minamiaizu-gun Hinoematamura Kaminohara 478-1
- These historic buildings are storehouses built in fields away from homes in order to protect grain and other important items from fires. They are an Important Cultural Property of Hinoemata Village. The windowless structures are built from 10-centimeter-thick planks put together much like a bamboo steamer without the use of nails or pillars. The architectural style of the storehouses are important in terms of architectural history, is identical to that of Nara's Shosoin Treasure House.
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