Historical Monument Spots in Mie Area
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- Tokaido Seki-juku
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- Mie Pref. Kameyamashi Sekichoukozaki Nakamachi new place
- Seki-juku in Kameyama City, Mie Prefecture was a post town serving as the 47th of the 53 Stations of the Tokaido in the Edo period (1603-1868). On the Old Tokaido Road a five-minute walk from JR Seki-juku Station, it is still preserved, and you can get the sense that you have slipped back in time to the Edo period. In the vicinity, there are many interesting places such as a museum introducing the history of Seki-juku and long-established stores, and it is filled with spots to take photographs. In addition, there are still over 200 machiya (traditional wooden townhouses) built from the end of the Edo period (1603-1868) to the Meiji period (1868-1912), and the area itself has been chosen as a Nationally-designated Important Traditional Architecture Preservation District and one of Japan's top 100 roads.
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関駅から徒歩5分ほど。 東海道五十三次の47番目の宿場。昔ながらの町家が多数現存し、国の重要伝統的建造物群保存地区に選定されている。街道を歩くだけでも江戸情緒の雰囲気を感じることができる場所である。
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- Gojoban Yashiki
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- Mie Pref. Matsusakashi Tonomachi 1385
- Gojoban Yashiki is a samurai residence in which the 20 Kishu top-ranking samurai who guarded Matsusaka Castle at the end of the Edo period lived along with their families. An unusual kumiyashiki (residence for low class samurai enrolled in one of the police forces) even across all of Japan, it still remains inhabited by the samurai descendants, and only one part of the residence on the north side of the west building is open to the public. It is located approximately 15 minutes on foot from JR Matsusaka Station.
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A short street with some historical house. Worth to stop by if u stay in the city and you love Japanese stuff. Also, no good for parking
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- Home of Matsuo Basho
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- Mie Pref. Igashi Uenoakasakachou 304
- This is the childhood home of the great poet Matsuo Basho, who lived here until the age of 29. The grounds contain a stone slab inscribed with the haiku Basho composed when he found the umbilical cord his family had kept in this house – “Old village! / Umbilical’s tail at cry / Year’s end.” A building called the Chogetsuken in the garden behind the house is where The Seashell Game poetry anthology was compiled by Basho. The home provides visitors with a glimpse of the life Basho lived in the place here returned to on many occasions after his travels.
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芭蕉が生きてたころの建物ではないですけど、古民家としてそれなりに風情があっていい感じでした。すき焼きの老舗「金谷本店」から徒歩3分です。
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- Irako Seihaku’s House
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- Mie Pref. Tobashi Toba 1-9-9
- This historic residence and medical clinic about three-minutes on foot from Toba Station is where poet Irako Seihaku passed his time in Toba from the Meiji Period until the early Showa Period. This covered 22 years, from when he was posted to Toba Town's Ohama in 1922 until he moved to what is now Taiki Town in Watarai County. The buildings that survive are the same as they were back then, giving visitors a chance to take in a simple wooden house from Japan's past. They also hold exhibitions related to Irako Seihaku that you can view at your leisure. There's a beautiful and soothing view from the second floor.
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鳥羽駅から徒歩5分程の場所にある詩人の伊良子清白の家です。日本各地を転々としたことから、漂泊の詩人と言われているという事です。 伊良子清白が23年間過ごした家が記念館になっていて、無料で入る事ができます。鳥羽の地に診療所を開業した家はしっかりと保存されており、見ることができ貴重な体験をさせて貰いました。
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- Minomushian
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- Mie Pref. Igashi Uenonishihinatamachi 1820
- A thatched hut which belonged to famed poet Matsuo Basho’s disciple, Hattori Toho. The name, meaning “Hermitage of the Bagworm,” is connected to a poem Bassho created in celebration of the completion of the hermitage—“Bagworms / Come hear their cry / A thatched hut.” Toho wrote the Sanzoshi, which systematizes Basho’s theories on haiku, here. of the five “Basho Hermitages” (the others being the Mumyoan, Sairokuan, Torokuan, and Hyochikuan), this is the only extant thatched hut, and was designated a Prefectural Cultural and Historic Site as well as a Site of Scenic Beauty in 1938.
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芭蕉の門人、服部土芳の庵です。文学好きや歴史好き方にお薦めのスポットですが、紅葉の穴場スポットでもあります。
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- Kyusukodo
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- Mie Pref. Igashi Uenomarunouchi 78-1
- This local domain school was erected in 1821 to educate the children of feudal retainers living in the Iga, Yamato, and Yamashiro areas. The school was established as a branch of Yuzokan, Tsu Domain. Visitors can catch a glimpse of the dedication feudal retainers of the time had towards learning in the exhibition hall and lecture hall, which is floored with 72 tatami mats just as when the school was first built.
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紅葉が見事です。藩校の建物の中から、障子をフレームにして紅葉を映すとなかなかの写真が撮れます。ときどきアート展示もやっているようです。
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- Ruins of Nabari Todo Family’s House
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- Mie Pref. Nabarishi Marunouchi 54-3
- This historic residence is about five minutes on foot from the Kintetsu Osaka Line's Nabari Station. Nabari once flourished as a castle town, and the former home of the Todo family has been preserved. The original building was constructed 1636. What's left, including the living quarters known as the Onishi, the entertaining room, and the tea room, were all rebuilt after the Great Nabari Fire in 1710. It's a precious example of a later-era samurai home with few others surviving nationwide. Items like furnishings, weapons, and texts are on display, allowing you to learn a bit about the life of a senior samurai from the early modern era.
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白壁でぐるりと囲まれた江戸時代の雰囲気を残す一画が街中に残っています。武家屋敷があまり立派と思えないのが少々残念でした。
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- Toba Oo-shoya Kadoya
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- Mie Pref. Tobashi Toba 4-3-24
- Starting as oo-shoya in the late Edo period, this former Hirono family residence was converted into a pharmacy by the name of “Kadoya” until the Taisho period. The main building, built in 1825, was renovated as a place to educate people on Toba’s culture and traditions. There is a strong sense of the Edo period with medical documents and tools as well as other items left to give you a feel of daily life at that time. The first-floor room can be rented. The nearest train station is Nakanogo Station.
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Toba was our first port of call on a cruise from Yokohama. The Visitor Centre near the Marine Terminal provided us with a Toba Town Walks brochure; the furthest point (about 20 minutes), was the home...
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- Rokkaen (former Seiroku Moroto residence)
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- Mie Pref. Kuwanashi Kuwana 663-5
- This facility is a 10-minute walk from the city circular bus Tamachi bus stop from the bus terminal at Kuwana Station's East Exit. This important cultural property is made up of a western-style building designed by the British architect Josiah Conder (1852-1920) who also designed the Rokumeikan (Deer Cry Pavilion), and a Japanese-style building with a Japanese-style garden with a path around a central pond. It was designated as a National Important Cultural Property in 1997 as a precious building representing the Meiji (1868-1912) and Taisho (1912-1926) periods. You can enjoy the garden which is famous in Japan for this beauty throughout the year and its charming architecture. In addition to tsukigama (monthly tea ceremony), flower arrangement exhibitions and concerts, it holds courses on the small hand drum for nagauta hayashi music and tea ceremony.
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- Nabari-shi Kyu-Hosokawa-tei, Yanaseshuku
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- Mie Nabari-shi Shinmachi 136
- "This historic structure is situated on Prefectural Route 567 in Shin-machi, Nabari City. A townhouse built between the end of the Edo period and the start of the Meiji period to serve as a branch establishment for the Hosokawa, a medicine wholesale family from Nara, it has been designated a National Tangible Cultural Property. Today, it can be rented out for exhibitions, meetings, and all kinds of events. It is also used to host special ""one day"" restaurants in which the restaurant using the building changes daily."
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名張市のまちなか散策の案内所となっている施設。もともと薬商の細川家の町屋だった建物をリニューアルして使用されています。日替わりでいろいろなレストランが料理を提供するワンデイレストランとのこと。訪問時は蕎麦が食べられると聞いて昼過ぎに立ち寄りましたが、あいにく売り切れで食べることができず残念でした。
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- Ise Kawasaki Merchant Museum
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- Mie Pref. Iseshi Kawasaki 2-25-32
- This valuable Cultural Heritage site was used for a Kawasaki liquor shop in the Edo period and tells the culture and history of the flourishing merchant town of Kawasaki. There are seven warehouses and two townhouses all of which are Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan. You can find Japan’s oldest bank notes the Yamada Hagaki and other cultural items on display in the Kawasaki Machinami-kan; and tools and equipment used by merchants are on display in the Built-in Museum. There is also a café, gardens and more, including the Kawasaki Merchant Storehouse where you can purchase local goods and food. The nearest station is Iseshi Station.
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- Former Hasegawa Residence
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- Mie Matsusaka-shi Uomachi 1653
- "This residence of the Jirobe Hasegawa, one of the most successful merchants of Matsusaka, is located along Uomachi-dori Street, which stretches along the city with a subdued atmosphere, about a 15-minute walk from Matsusaka Station. As for the facade appearance, it is a ""Tsushi two-story building"" where the second story has a low ceiling, and the exquisite main udatsu (a fire-preventative structural element used in residential houses) above the sleeve (side) walls. As a collection of buildings featuring a vast manor and many manor properties, it was registered as a National Important Cultural Property in 2016. A vast collection of materials, such as merchant materials, old documents, and daily implements, are stored within the manor. Deep within the grounds you'll find a stroll garden with a central pond. Individuals can tour around only Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays."
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- Suzunoya
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- Mie Pref. Matsusakashi Tonomachi 1536-7
- Suzunoya is a memorial museum devoted to the great Edo period scholar Motoori Norinaga. It displays handwritten manuscripts, personal items, self-portraits, and other mementos. Motoori was a physician back in the Edo period, as well as a student of Japanese history and a philologist. He is famous for having researched the eighth-century mythological and historical compilation Kojiki and writing a commentary on it, which is known as Kojikiden. He also studied the eleventh-century The Tale of Genji intently and coined the term mono-no-aware, a melancholy awareness of the transience of life. Even the house where Motoori Norinaga lived has been moved and rebuilt inside the memorial museum. This house was called Suzunoya (Bell House), due to the fact that he hung bells in an alcove of his study on the second floor and enjoyed listening to them. Visitors can hear detailed explanations of the exhibits from the guides who are on duty during the day.
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- Nabari City Local History Museum
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- Mie Nabari-shi Abeta 2270 Nabarinishikio Furusato Park
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- Hayashizaki Bunko
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- Mie Ise-shi Ujiimazaikecho 163
- This school was originally started as the Okada Bunko library during the Nanboku-cho period. Established in 1687, the area where it was built was swampy and not suited to the preservation of texts; accordingly, it was moved to the Hayashizaki area in 1690 and came to be called the Hayashizaki Bunko. Up until the Meiji period, it was used to gather and store texts, as a place for the education of shrine apprentices, and as a space for exchange with culturally advanced regions. The building's lecture hall and depository are particularly well preserved and, as a historically valuable relic, the structure has been designated a National Historic Site.
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- Kato Family Residence Nagaya Gate/Dozo
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- Mie Kameyama-shi Nishimarucho 545-1
- These historic structures are located in Nishimaru-cho, Kameyama City. The remnants of a residence which belonged to the Kato family, whose members served as the chief retainers of the bygone Ise-Kameyama Domain, the structures are situated in the Nishinomaru (western compound) of Kameyama Castle. The preserved nagaya gate and dozo storehouse of the residence were built in the late Edo period and have been designated Cultural Properties by the city.
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- Banryu Yagura
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- Mie Kuwana-shi Sannomaru Chisaki
- "This historic structure is located in Higashi-Semba-cho, Kuwana City. The structure is a restored yagura turret located in the Sannomaru outermost region of Kuwana Castle. Travelers on the ancient Tokaido highway would see this turret when entering the post station town of Kuwana-juku via the Shichiri no Watashi ferry, the only sea route section on the Tokaido, and the symbolic structure was even famously depicted in Hiroshige's famous ""53 Stations of the Tokaido"" ukiyo-e print series. Today, the turret is also lit up at night, and evening visitors can take in its beauty along with the nightscape of the Ibi River."
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- Military Observation Tower Ruins
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- Mie Toba Kamishimacho
- "This historic structure is located in Kamijima-cho, Toba City. The tower was used by the former Japanese Army for visual confirmation of the impact of artillery fired from Irago. Situated on the east side of the outlying island of Kamishima, famously used as a setting in Yukio Mishima's novel ""The Sound of Waves,"" the tower appears in the novel's climax."
Mie Areas
Spread across the eastern side of the Kii Peninsula, Mie prefecture boasts hundreds of kilometers of pretty coastline comprising the oyster-rich Toba city and Shima National Park all the way down to Kumano, a city that marks the beginning of part of the Kumano Kodo pilgrimage, which runs into neighboring Wakayama prefecture. However, Mie is best known for the Ise Jingu Shinto shrine inland, one of the oldest and largest shrines in the country.
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