Travel / Tourism Spots in Hokusei Area

  • Tsubaki Grand Shrine
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    4.5
    153 Reviews
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    Mie Pref. Suzukashi Yamamotochou 1871
    A Shinto shrine; the inner sanctuary enshrines the shrine’s principal god, Sarutahiko Okami. Sarutahiko Okami is worshipped as a god of fortune who brings peace and happiness to all living creatures. He is also believed to provide such benefits as safe travels, luck in love, bountiful children and grandchildren, protection from evil, and better fortunes. A teahouse called the Suzumatsu-an can be found on the shrine grounds. The teahouse, together with a garden, was donated to the temple by Konosuke Matsushita, founder of Panasonic, in prayer for the further development and growth of the tea ceremony. The teahouse is open to the general public and is not dedicated to a specific tea ceremony school.

    久しぶりの参拝です^^(前回の口コミが2018年だったので、5年ぶりか) 家族が建設会社に勤めている関係で、建築の神様でもあるため、半年に一度、会社の幹部で御祈祷を受けているようです。そのためか、近年はあまり会社関係のトラブルがないように感じます。(会社のトップの意向で、ここ10年ほどは、毎年参拝に行っているようです) 今回は夫婦で訪れ、日ごろの御礼参りに伺いました。別宮(椿岸神社)は、夫婦神...

  • Inabe City Nogyokoen
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    4.5
    53 Reviews
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    Mie Pref. Inabeshi Fujiwarachoukanae 3071
    The park is comprised of two main areas. The first is the environment and welfare plaza. Here you’ll find a park golf course, play equipment, and a tree peony garden. A tree peony festival is held here around mid-April. The other area is the Ume Park. This area hosts one of the largest ume (Japanese apricot) gardens in the Tokai area, as well as a blueberry garden. An ume festival is held here around mid-February. Special events are also held at the park during which it bustles with visitors. It depends on the ripeness of the ume, but in general around early June you can also try picking ume in the park.

    一度行きたかった梅林公園(農業公園の梅園エリア)に、ようやく訪れることが出来ました。 3月20日現在、八分咲きぐらいでしたが、広大な敷地にしだれ梅を中心に紅梅、白梅など色んな梅が見事に咲いています。 梅林の中を散策するのも優雅な気分ですが、特に高台の見晴らし台からの眺めは、雪がかぶった山並みと梅のコントラストが圧巻で、言葉にできないまさに絶景!! コロナ禍により、梅まつりのイベントが中止のためか...

  • Tokaido Seki-juku
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    4.0
    123 Reviews
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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.

    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。

  • Tado Shrine
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    4.0
    98 Reviews
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    Mie Pref. Kuwanashi Tadochoutado 1681
    A Shinto shrine located a 10 minute drive from the Kuwanahigashi Interchange whose history dates back over 1,500 years. The shrine's origins are believed to lie in the building of a shrine here by Emperor Yuryaku in the latter half of the fifth century. The deity enshrined in the main shrine is Amatsuhikone no Mikoto, the son of Sume Omikami. The shrine was destroyed in a wartime fire in 1572. After being rebuilt in the Edo period, the shrine experienced such a revival in popularity, it was said that if one were going to visit the famous Ise Jingu shrine, one must also visit this one. The Tado Festival, held in May, attracts many visitors who come to watch an event in which gallant men ride horse up a steep, two meter near vertical precipice; the number and the order in which riders surmount the precipice foretells how good the harvest will be that year.

    多度の上げ馬で坂を転げ落ちたり壁に激突したり流血、骨折で痙攣する馬などを見て恐怖を覚えました。何より馬を取り囲んで殴ったり抑え込んだりする男性たちの怒号がものすごく、子供が怖がって泣き出し、その場を離れてもずっと口をききませんでした。あんなものを伝統などと見せ物にする神経が全くわかりません。二度とあの神社には行きません。

  • Suzuka Forest Garden
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    4.5
    30 Reviews
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    Mie Pref. Suzukashi Yamamotochou 151-2
    A research garden operated by Akatsuka Botanical Garden located in Suzuka City, Mie Prefecture. The garden was created with the purpose of preserving for future generations Japan's traditional techniques for growing weeping plums. Managed by skilled professionals, some 200 plum trees are grown on the grounds with a focus on the double blossomed Kureha weeping plum. The garden also contains some of the largest weeping plum trees in Japan. The garden is open to the public from February through March, and, depending on the date, the trees are lit up at night. Entrance fees change depending on the date, so be sure to check the garden's official Twitter feed before going.

    東名阪道、新名神どちらからも便利な場所に有り、梅の名所です。 3月8日に行きましたが、まだ三分咲きでした。投稿している3月15日には満開になったようなので再度行く予定です。 入園料は1,700円と安くはないので花の開花状況は要チェックです。 レストランはありませんが、移動販売の軽食や鈴鹿名物の穴子寿司などは購入できます。 お土産は充実していました。

  • Roadside Station Sekijuku
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    3.5
    73 Reviews
    Transportation
    Mie Pref. Kameyamashi Sekichoushinjo 674-8
    A roadside station identifiable by its wooden, tiled roof building located a one minute walk from JR Seki Station and a five minute drive from the Seki Interchange on the Meihan Expressway in Kameyama City. The station's shop sells souvenirs such as popular sweets from the Kameyama-Seki area, Ise tea, and folk crafts; as well as farm-fresh vegetables. The station's restaurant serves miso yaki udon noodles, a popular local cheap eat; Kameyama ramen; and sweet Kameyama tea lattes. The station also has a tatami mat rest area and a walkway covered with sharp bumps designed to provide walkers with a painful albeit blood flow-promoting ashitsubo massage effect.

    関駅からすぐ、国道1号沿いにある道の駅。土産物売り場、農産物即売所、軽食コーナー、観光案内所などがある。また2階には「富永一朗漫画廊」があり、漫画家・富永一朗の作品を展示している。建物内のトイレは工事中で、駐車場に仮設トイレがたくさん置かれていた。

  • Roadside Station Komono
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    3.0
    50 Reviews
    Transportation
    Mie Mie-gun Komonocho Komono 2256
    This roadside station is located about five minutes on foot from Kintetsu Naka-Komono Station in Komono Town, Mie County. At the information desk, in addition to Komono sightseeing information, they offer only a Komono tea service on weekdays. Their specialty shop is popular for its Japanese sweets like kusa mochi rice cakes (not available in summer) and ohagi (coated rice balls). Their eatery Makomo-no-Sato serves cuisine featuring makomo, or Manchurian wild rice, a local specialty. These dishes include set meals, croquettes, and noodles, all featuring makomo.

    ふるさと館に併設された「道の駅菰野」。地元の野菜やお菓子、陶器など幅広く商品を取り揃えています。立ち寄ってみる価値があります。

  • Paramita Museum
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    4.0
    32 Reviews
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Mie Pref. Miegunkomonochou Obanenmatsugaechou 21-6
    An art museum located not far from Obane-en Station on the Kintetsu Railway Yunoyama Line. The museum displays pieces by artists like Koichi Uchida and Teruko Tsuji, as well as the Heart Sutra sculpture series by Masuo Ikeda, an artist also known as a printmaker and writer of the Akutagawa Prize-winning novel Offering in the Aegean. The museum has a small gallery which can be borrowed by regular people for holding exhibitions and the museum also holds concerts making use of a portion of its exhibition space. In the adjoining Paramita Garden, visitors can view stone sculptures and wild plants which grow at the foot of the Suzuka Mountains.

    二階建ての美術館です。駐車場は広くて無料なのが嬉しい。館内は写真撮影ができる場所とそうでない場所があります。撮影したい場合は、受付でもらえるマップで確認できます。カメラの絵にグリーンの丸印は撮影できます。あと一週間ほどで終了する棟方志功展を鑑賞したくて来館。二階部分のフロアがメインですが、作品が多すぎて一階フロアにも展示されています。掛け軸、襖絵、衝立、お皿など、多種多様な作品がズラリ。こんなにた...

  • Umi Terrace 14 Observation Deck
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    4.0
    57 Reviews
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    Mie Yokkaichi-shi
    This observation deck is located in the Yokkaichi Port Building in 2-Chome Kasumi, Yokkaichi City. Here, 90 meters above the ground, you can enjoy a sweeping view of the area, including the Suzuka Mountains and Chubu Centrair International Airport. In addition, when the observation deck is specially opened at night primarily on Saturdays and Sundays, it is a popular destination to take in the nightscape of Yokkaichi Port. There are also exhibits on the history and workings of Yokkaichi Port.

    四日市港ポートビルの14階にある展望フロアです。入場料は310円です。 360°のパノラマ展望で、コンビナートを含めて、周囲の景色がきれいに眺められます。 港のタワーなので、貿易関連のフェリーの紹介展示もあります。

  • Gozaisho Ropeway
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    Mie Prefecture Mie Gun, Konno-machi Yunoyama Onsen
    A ropeway located a 10 minute walk from the Yunoyamaonsen bus stop on Mie Kotsu bus lines. From the ropeway's gondolas, riders can enjoy the seasonal scenery of Mt. Gozaisho, including rhododendrons and other flowers in spring, fall foliage in autumn, and frost covered trees in winter. Many unusual rock formations dot the mountain, as well as the tallest steel tower in Japan, and this variegated scenery ensures riders will be entertained from journey start to end. There's a mountaintop restaurant with a gorgeous view as well as a souvenir shop at the end. Events are also held at the top such as stamp rallies and birdwatching classes.
  • Soranpo Yokkaichi Municipal Museum and Planetarium
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    4.0
    36 Reviews
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    Mie Yokkaichi-shi Yasujima 1-3-16
    In addition to a permanent exhibition spanning three floors which recreates the history of Yokkaichi City with life-sized dioramas, a variety of special exhibitions are held on the fourth floor. There's also the most advanced planetarium on Earth on the fifth floor, which is capable of projecting around 140 million stars, the most in the world. Further, the Yokkaichi Pollution and Environmental Museum for Future Awareness is located on the second floor.

    是非訪れて欲しい博物館。プラネタリウムは予約をしていかなければ、週末は難しいようです。 今回は四日市の歴史に関する展示を観ました。先人の公害に対する取組、戦い、対策について深く学ぶ事が出来ました。無料ですが、充実した施設です。

  • Jibasan Mie Meihinkan
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    3.5
    19 Reviews
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    Mie Yokkaichi-shi Yasujima 1-3-18
    This local specialty products market adjoins the LaLa Square Yokkaichi mall in 1-Chome Yasujima, Yokkaichi City. The market sells Ise teas, Oyachi hand-stretched somen noodles, shigure hamaguri clams stewed tsukudani style, and other local specialty products, as well as famous Yokkaichi sweets, local alcoholic beverages, dairy products, and other foods. In addition, the market also carries Yokkaichi Banko ware, Ise katagami paper stencils, and other crafts. The huge kayari buta pig-shaped mosquito coil burner displayed in the facility's lobby, dubbed the largest in Japan, is also worth a look.

    駐車場が無料でありがたいです。ただ、地価の駐車場は狭いので、隣のララスクエアの駐車場を使ったほうが楽です。アピタで何か購入すれば駐車券がもらえます。

  • Kawagoe Electric Tower Museum Tera 46
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    4.0
    14 Reviews
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    Mie Mie-gun Kawagoecho Kamezakishinden Asake 87-1
    This museum is located an approximately five-minute drive from Mie-Kawagoe Interchange on the Isewangan Expressway. It has learning facilities dedicated to energy and our lifestyles. The museum's theme is coexistence between humans and the Earth and our future, and it has impactful exhibitions displayed that visitors can actually see, touch and play with, while learning about their environment and energy. Outside, on the first floor, is Isewan Geoland. On the third floor are exhibitions such as a fantastic wonder machine that takes visitors on a ride through the 4.6 billion years of the Earth's history. All seven floors of the museum contain exhibitions that people of all ages, from children to adults can enjoy learning from.

    東京から帰省した孫を連れて出かけました。 中部電力によるテーマパーク仕立ての展示館ですが、エネルギーに関して楽しく学びながら遊べる電力館です。 特に、5階のハイパーシアターは大画面と手元のタッチペン式コンピューターによる色んなプログラム(私どもが入室した時間は、海の生物にお絵かきした魚たちが大画面を泳いでビックリ)で子どもだけじゃなく大人も充分楽しめます。 他にもクイズコーナーやゲームコーナー...

  • Kuwana City Museum
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    4.0
    24 Reviews
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    Mie Pref. Kuwanashi Kyoumachi 37-1
    "This museum, dedicated to the history of Kuwana City, displays a collection related to the history of the Kuwana Domain, and to the local pottery Banko ware. It also has special exhibitions of paintings and woodblocks, as well as works from the Kuwana-connected swordsmith Muramasa. Their Sword Handling experience is growing ever more popular, and is offered as a ""Hometown Tax"" incentive gift."

    2023年NHK大河トラマ《どうする家康》に興味を持たれているのであれば 来年の企画展;令和5年(2023)1年14日-2月26日[こうなる徳川将軍家 -家康と千姫ー 特別公開 千姫復元着物]を如何でしょうか。私達は 令和4年(2022)10月22日-11月27日 華ひらく近代工芸の美、板谷波山(陶芸家...

  • Seki Machinami Museum
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    3.5
    23 Reviews
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    Mie Pref. Kameyamashi Sekichounakamachi 482
    Seki Machinami Museum, located about ten minutes’ walk from Seki Station on JR Kansai Main Line, is an exhibition facility using the machiya (townhouse) architecture typical of Sekijuku for which a post town of the Edo period (1603-1868) has been reproduced. It exhibits daily items such as money boxes and traditional straw hats used at the machiya in those days and historical documents of Sekijuku. When you go to the second floor using Hakokaidan which is a stair-like storage space, you can see pictures showing changes in the townscape and a diorama of Sekijuku. From the second floor of the museum, the townscape of Sekijuku can be enjoyed.

    関駅から徒歩10分ほど。旧東海道沿いにある。 入館料は関宿旅籠玉屋歴史資料館と共通で300円。関の山車会館をプラスした3館共通入館券は500円。 資料館の建物(旧別所家)は江戸時代末期築の関宿を代表する町屋建築のひとつで、間口は狭く奥行きが長い。前面2階は漆喰塗りで虫籠窓が設けられている。室内にある箱階段や、部屋に置かれた長火鉢、銭箱などが江戸を感じさせる。主屋裏には土蔵があり、関宿に関する解説パ...

  • Sekijuku Hatago Tamaya Historical Museum
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    4.5
    18 Reviews
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    Mie Pref. Kameyamashi Sekichounakamachi 444-1
    Sekijuku Hatago Tamaya Historical Museum located about eight minutes’ walk from JR Seki Station is the first hatago museum in Japan and situated almost in the middle of the Sekijuku region where the townscapes of the Edo period (1603-1868) remain strong. Hatago means the accommodation which samurai and common people used in the Edo period. Particularly, Tamaya is a large hatago so typical of Sekijuku that it was said if you stayed in Seki, Tsuruya or Tamaya was the place. It is restored today and has become a museum where you can see items such as bedding and cutlery used at the time, historical documents about travel by the common people, and ukiyoe (woodblock prints) by Hiroshige Utagawa.

    関駅から徒歩10分ほど。 入館料は関まちなみ資料館と共通で300円。関の山車会館をプラスした3館共通入館券は500円。 玉屋(旧村山家)は関宿を代表する大旅籠のひとつ。1階が店・帳場・主屋で2階が客室、その奥に離れがあり、中庭を挟んで土蔵がある。室内には当時使われていた食器、宿帳、旅道具などを、土蔵には浮世絵などを展示している。 大旅籠とはいえ、最大200人も宿泊したということは一人当たりのスペー...

  • Kuwana City Ishidori Kaikan
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    3.5
    22 Reviews
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    Mie Kuwana-shi Kyomachi 16
    "This museum stands on the old Tokaido highway in Kyo-machi, Kuwana City. The museum's exhibits present the Ishidori Festival, a designated National Important Intangible Folk-Cultural Property held by the Kuwana Sosha (also known as Kasuga Shrine) in the city every summer. The festival involves a procession of over 40 huge traditional festival floats and has been dubbed the ""noisiest festival in Japan."" Through videos and rare historical artefacts such as a festival float built in the late Edo period, visitors can experience the thrills of the festival. The museum operates out of the former Kuwana Credit Union Kyo-machi Branch building, a designated National Tangible Cultural Property."

    こちらの建物が《国登録有形文化財》であり、《石取祭》が《国指定重要無形民俗文化財》《ユネスコ無形文化遺産》であることから 訪問しました。実際の《石取祭》では 43台[令和4年(2022)8月開催]の祭車が使われたようですが [石取会館]内に 祭車一台のみ展示されています。一般的な祭車は4輪ですが 《石取祭》の祭車は3輪であることが 面白い点です。 一方で 祭車1台の大きさが大きくないので 1台だけ...

  • The Kodayu Daikokuya Memorial
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    4.0
    16 Reviews
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    Mie Pref. Suzukashi Wakamatsunaka 1-1-8
    This memorial is 15 minutes on foot from Kintetsu Ise-Wakamatsu Station, and about 10 minutes by car from Shiroko Station. The facility tells the story Kodayu Daikokuya, a castaway in Russia during the Edo period. He was the first Japanese person to bring back information about the area he spent time in, gaining the attention of many politicians and scholars and contributing greatly to studies of the West. The memorial houses items like a Russian text written by Kodayu, personal letters of the Russian envoy, his travel journal, and other old documents. Rather than a permanent exhibition, they mainly hold planned and seasonal special exhibitions.

    大黒屋光太夫は、ロシアで女帝に面会し、日本でも将軍にも面会し、鎖国内での双方の情報は貴重出会った。今は何も無い故郷に記念館と慰霊碑と銅像があります。

  • Waju no Sato
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    4.5
    12 Reviews
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    Mie Pref. Kuwanashi Nagashimachounishigawa 1093
    "This learning complex allows visitors to learn about the history, culture, and industry of Nagashima town and the waju flood barrier. It contains the ""amu-seum"" area with History and Folklore Museum, and the “active area “ with Industrial Activity Hall, and each has a variety of displays. Outside the building is the Waju Observation Park which has a year-round activity farm which is quite popular for its harvesting experience."

    とても面白く、民族博物館にとても似ています。 興味深いものもたくさんあり、また行きたくなります。 木曽三川公園や、輪中ドームと一緒に行くと良いのではないのでしょうか。

  • Mt. Gozaisho
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    Mie Pref. Miegunkomonochou Komono Hot spring mountain
    This is the highest peak of the Suzuka Mountains, located in Komono Town, Mie County, Mie Prefecture. A park is maintained at the summit, in addition to the Fujimi-iwa Observatory and the Japanese Antelope Center. Visitors can ride to the summit on the Gozaisho Ropeway or hike up one of the various mountain trails. The walking routes vary in difficulty from beginner to intermediate and hard. A variety of flowers bloom in each season, as well as the red leaves in the fall, and frost covering the trees in the winter. There is also Yunohana Hot Spring at the foot of the mountain, where visitors can rest from their climbing and walking.

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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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