Leisure / Hobbies Spots in Hokusei Area

  • Kyuka Park
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Mie Pref. Kuwanashi Yoshinomaru 5-1
    This park was created in the Honmaru and Ninomaru ruins of Kuwana Castle, and is located an approximately three-minute walk from the City A Circulation Bus Honcho bus stop. Formerly known as Ougi (fan-shaped)-jo Castle, it retains the atmosphere of a castle praised as the Castle of Kaido. It is a place for residents to relax where many varieties of flowers bloom depending on the season. Inside the park is Chinkoku Shukoku-Jinja Shrine that is dedicated to Matsudaira Sadatsuna and Matsudaira Sadanobu. In addition, you can find in the park the site of Tatsumi Yagura Turret, which served as a symbol for Kuwana Castle, and a monument dedicated to the souls of those who died in the Boshin War built in 1887 at the site of the castle keep.
  • Nagashima Sports Land
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Mie Pref. Kuwanashi Nagashimachoufukuyoshi 879-5
    This facility where you can casually enjoy sports such as golf and natural hot springs is located approximately five minutes from the Isewangan Expressway's Wangan-Nagashima Interchange. The garden course is filled with nature surrounded by flowers and greenery. The authentic short course that can be fully enjoyed by veterans and beginners to golf without any worries, it is possible to also play at time throughout the year. There are also tennis and horseback riding facilities. In addition, at the multi-purpose hot spring rest facility with natural spring water directly from the course called Kurhaus, there is also a spring you can drink from, including ones where you can enjoy a steam bath, far-infrared sauna and other various baths. You can taste set menu items and dishes such as hamburger steak at the restaurant.
  • Showa Kofukumura Park
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    Leisure / Hobbies
    Mie Yokkaichi-shi Dogayama 1958
    This park is located in Dogayama-cho, Yokkaichi City. Built around a pond, the park's grounds have been planted with cherry trees, plum trees, and a variety of other flowering plants, making it a popular destination for flower viewing. Designed to be a park where visitors can have fun and learn new things, the park has paddleboats, a fishing pond, and a school.

    梅の花が咲いており、子供連れで散歩するにはいい雰囲気でした。ひが少ないのでのんびりできます。設備はないですが持ち込みでバーベキューをされている方がいらっしゃいました。弁当などを持っていって行くのもおすすめです。遊具があるので子どもは喜ぶと思います。桜の木もたくさんありましたのでまた桜の時期に行ってみたいと思います。 管理人の方がとても親切。

  • NTN General Sports Park (Kuwana City General Sports Park)
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Mie Kuwana-shi Hagasaki 1859-4
  • Suzuka Municipal Museum of Archology
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    Leisure / Hobbies
    Mie Suzuka-shi Kokubucho 224
    This museum is located in Kokubu-cho, Suzuka City. Adjoined by the National Historic Site-designated Ise Kokubunji Ruins, the museum displays archeological exhibits such as artefacts discovered at the ruins and other archeological sites in the city. In addition to its standing exhibition and special exhibitions, the museum conducts tours of the Ise Kokubunji Ruins and holds activity classes.

    伊勢国分寺跡に建つ博物館で古代から中世くらいまでの展示物が多く鑑賞できます。 まが玉と土笛作りを体験しに行きました。まが玉や土笛づくりの体験だけだと体験料だけで入館料はいりませんでした。

  • Aisei Berry Farm
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Mie Pref. Yokkaichishi Kaigechou Flower stand 2218
    This tourist farm offers strawberry picking from late December through May, and has varieties like Akihime and Benihoppe. The greenhouses have wide walkways and elevated growing shelves for easier picking that even children can enjoy. They also have a rest station and a mini-cafe. From June through August they have blueberry picking, and a pool facility for children and adults.
  • Yokkaichi Sports Land
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Mie Pref. Yokkaichishi Sakurachou 9868
    This leisure facility located approximately 15 minutes by car from the Yokkaichi Interchange is where you can enjoy activities and athletics in the middle of nature. On their athletic course that uses natural features, you can challenge yourself to 30 different wooden equipment. It has facilities such as a super slider where you can quickly go down the 150-meter course and a roller skating area that can be enjoyed by everyone from small children to adults. You can enjoy barbecues at the day camping area, and it is also wheelchair-accessible. The large observatory-like structure gives you vast views of the Yokkaichi cityscape and Ise Bay.
  • Suzuka Flower Park
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Mie Pref. Suzukashi Kasadochou 1690-1
    This park located in Kasado-cho, Suzuka City, Mie Prefecture is where different flowers vividly bloom throughout the year along Lake Shiratori. It is popular with children, combining 24 kinds of large complex playground equipment such as a 30-meter roller slider, mountain road and net dome. In the spring, the rows of cherry blossoms and flower beds are very beautiful. You can also see fountains in the summer. There is a resting space and accessible restrooms, making it a popular place where people of all ages can relax.
  • Okada Strawberry Farm
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    Leisure / Hobbies
    Mie Suzuka-shi Mihatacho 5141-1
    This strawberry farm is situated on Prefectural Route 27 in Mihata-cho, Suzuka City. The farm offers 60-minute all-you-can-eat strawberry picking; an advance reservation is required for Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays, and during periods of consecutive holidays. The farm is also open at night and visitors can enjoy reservation-only nighttime strawberry picking.

    大満足のいちご狩り ツアーバスで行きました 到着すると、バスの中でヘタを入れるビニール袋が配られます そして係の方から説明があります 靴はスリッパに履き替えるようですが、大人数だったため、ヒールの方のみスリッパ 大きなカバンなどはイチゴに傷がつき、持ち帰り防止の為にもバス車内またはロッカーに預けます 携帯、貴重品は持ち込みOK 持参の練乳もOKですが、入口で売ってました ただ練乳付けなくてもイチゴ...

  • Nanbukyuryo Park
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Mie Pref. Yokkaichishi Nishihinochou Higashi-Hino-cho Hagi-cho Kaiya-cho
    This general park is Yokkaichi city's largest, and embraces the hilly Satoyama landscape, mixing cultivated and untouched land. The North Zone has a chestnut forest, natural lawn, observation hill, and large play area. The South Zone has a zoo of small animals. There are all kinds of animals around, including sheep, goats, and peafowl, and every Sunday they have a rabbit-holding time. The park also has massive play equipment like the Long Slide and Wide Slide, making it very popular with children.
  • Tado-kyo Natural Pool
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Mie Pref. Kuwanashi Tadochoutado 1735
    This natural pool is about a 14-minute walk from the Tadotaisha-mae bus stop in Kuwana City, Mie Prefecture. Operating roughly from around mid-July until the end of August, it uses water flowing from the Tado Gorge, remaining clean without calcium hypochlorite or disinfectant. The water is usually a refreshing 20 degrees Celsius or less, and when you get tired you can relax in the free rest area. The shop sells food and drink and also rents lockers and flotation devices. They hold events sometimes, too.
  • Harima Chuo Park
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Mie Pref. Kuwanashi Hidamarinoka 2-101
    This park is in Hidamari no Oka in Kuwana City, Mie Prefecture. It has a large pond with airplane and duck shaped boats you can ride in season. There's a lush lawn area, a playscape with a 30-meter roller slide, and lots of waterfront space for keeping cool in the summertime. They also have a walking course you can cover in 30 minutes to help you keep fit.
  • Hokusei Central Park
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Mie Pref. Yokkaichishi Nishimurachou 1080
    Hokusei Central Park is located a 20-minute drive from the Yokkaichi East Interchange. It is a park for sports and recreation that straddles the city of Yokkaichi, the town of Komono, and the city of Inabe. Its grassy expanse covers four times the area of Nagoya Dome. There are forested trails for walking and exploration, and visitors can borrow equipment free of charge, so even those who arrive empty-handed can have a good time. There are also baseball diamonds and tennis courts that visitors can reserve for a fee. It is a favorite spot for viewing blossoms, not only the Kobukuzakura cherry trees, which bloom around October, but also Yoshino cherries, weeping cherries, and mountain cherries, with their unusual yellow blossoms.
  • Ishigaki-ike Park
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Mie Pref. Suzukashi Sakurajimachou 7
    Ishigaki-ike Park is a multi-purpose park located a seven-minute walk from Tamagaki Station on the JR Kansai Main Line. It includes a baseball diamond, a running track, a public swimming pool, and other exercise facilities, along with an athletic field and a garden of hygrophytic plants. Alongside the running track are Usuzumi cherry trees, a natural treasure, and during blossom season, the park is crowded with people eager to take pictures. Ishigaki Pond, the feature that gives the park its name, has a walking path around it that becomes a pink tunnel of blossoms when the cherry blossoms are at their height, so the park is an ideal place for viewing blossoms. On the island in the middle of the pond is an artificial tree for wild birds, and visitors can observe wild birds and ducks flying back and forth.
  • Forest Adventure Yunoyama
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Mie Mie-gun Komonocho Komono 4958
  • Inabe Park
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Mie Inabe Inabecho Sohara
    This park sprawls among red pine-covered hills. Enwrapped in a still atmosphere, the 7.3-hectare park has open squares and fields, a water fountain, and a five-story pagoda which serves as a symbol of the facility. Inabe Pond in the center divides the park into north and south halves. A gently undulating forest walking path follows the pond, and visitors can enjoy a relaxing hike while taking in the area's abundant natural beauty. From the park's wooden pagoda, visitors can get a sweeping view of the mountains of Suzuka and the townscape of the Hokusei-cho district sprawling at their feet.
  • Daian Trout Lake
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Mie Inabe Daiancho Monzen 2356
    "This trout fishing ground is a 10-minute drive from Sangi Railway Daian Station. Dedicated to being ""a fishing ground where customers can enjoy the easiest to catch fish in Japan at the lowest price in Japan,"" here you can have fun fishing at low cost. Mainly medium and large-sized fish swim in the fishing ground's huge pond, which is equal in size to two baseball fields. The pond is primarily filled with rainbow trout, white trout, and brown trout, and depending on the season you can also catch Japanese huchen and char here. The fishing ground's docks also usually don't get very crowded, enabling customers to cast their lures and flies with abandon."
  • Kakiyasu Community Park (Yoshinomaru Community Park)
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Mie Kuwana-shi Yoshinomaru 7
    This park is located in Yoshinomaru, Kuwana City. Located on the site of Kuwana Castle's Sannomaru outermost region, the park has a large and open natural grass field. A bronze statue in the park depicts Honda Tadakatsu, who, as lord of Kuwana Castle, engaged in the large-scale urban development which became the foundation for modern-day downtown Kuwana City.
  • Daikanransha Aurora
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Mie Kuwana-shi Nagashimacho Urayasu 333
    This ride is located in the Nagashima Spa Land amusement park in Urayasu, Nagashima-cho, Kuwana City. From the 83-meter-in-diameter Ferris wheel, riders can enjoy a sweeping view of Ise Bay, the Chita Peninsula, and the Suzuka Mountains. The Ferris wheel is also lit up at night.
  • Shoot the Shoot
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Mie Kuwana-shi Nagashimacho Urayasu 333
    This ride is located in the Nagashima Spa Land amusement park in Urayasu, Nagashima-cho, Kuwana City. One of the park's fast-moving thrill rides, riders can enjoy plunging into a pool of water in a coaster car via a 40 degree, 30-meter high slope. Be aware that the ride generates a huge spray of water.

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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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