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  • Chokyutei Garden
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    Wakayama Kainan-shi Fujishiro 758-45
    This mansion is located about a three-minute drive from the Kainan Interchange on the Hanwa Expressway. Located on the grounds of the brewing and distilling company Nakano BC, the residence is famous for its expansive Japanese garden. Its name is taken from the company's Chokyu brand of Japanese sake. Visitors can enjoy seeing the beautiful seasonal scenery from the nearly 200 square-meter reception hall, which is open to the public. Swans with names associated with sake can even be seen gracefully swimming in the massive 3000 square-meter ornamental pond.
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  • Honganji Temple Hidaka Betsuin Temple (Hidaka Goboso)
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    Wakayama Gobo-shi Gobo 100
    This ancient temple is located a five-minute walk from Nishi-Gobo Station on the Kishu Railway. Founded in 1540 by Yukawa Naomitsu, the temple belongs to the Honganji School of Jodo-shinshu Sect Buddhism. The temple would come to be referred to as Gobo-san, the namesake of Gobo City, following its relocation to its current location after it burned to the ground during Toyotomi Hideyoshi's subjugation of the Kishu Domain. The temple's current hondo (main building) is a reconstruction built in 1825. It also retains a shukubo (temple lodgings), shoin (drawing room), shorodo (bell tower), two gates, taikoro (drum tower), and other structures. The townscape of the surrounding area still retains vestiges from when it prospered as a temple town during the Edo Period. The large ginkgo tree on the temple's grounds, a prefectural natural monument, is more than four hundred years old.
    Honganji Temple Hidaka Betsuin Temple (Hidaka Goboso) image
  • Tourist Farm Hidaka
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    Wakayama Gobo-shi Nadacho Ueno 1336-2
    This tourist farm is located about 10 minutes south of the Gobo Interchange on the Yuasa-Gobo Road via National Route 42. Visitors can enjoy picking seasonal produce including strawberries and cherry tomatoes from winter to spring and watermelon and melon in the summer. The Sachinoka strawberries grown at the farm are notable for their high sugar and vitamin C content as well as their beautiful luster. The farm also offers all-you-can-eat strawberries and melon. Visitors can also enjoy picking flowers such as sweet pea and sea lavender, which are also sold at the adjacent farmer's market.
  • Domekikyo Gorge
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    Wakayama Tanabe-shi Inaricho
    This is located a ten-minute drive from the Tanabe Interchange on the Hanwa Expressway. Lined with rocks that resemble toads, it is a scenic area in Hikiiwagun National Recreation Area. Nearly 300 Somei Yoshino and Yamazakura cherry trees have been planted there, so large numbers of people visit during the cherry blossom season from late March to early April. The Domeki Gorge Cherry Blossom Festival, during which the stands of trees are illuminated at night, is held during the blossoming season and attracts visitors who enjoy this unique method of seeing the blossoms. A walking path has been set up to a point among the rocks that offers an overview of the city of Tanabe. It is an ideal place for nature walks and hiking in every season of the year.
  • Tanabe Castle Sluice Gate
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    Wakayama Tanabe-shi Kamiyashiki 3-7
    "This is located about a five-minute drive from the Nanki Tanabe Interchange on the Hanwa Expressway via National Route 42. It is the remains of the sluice gate for Tanabe Castle, which was also referred as Kinsuijo, or ""Brocade Water Castle."" It was built during the Edo Period (1615-1867) by Ando Naotsugu, the lord of the Tanabe fief, a so-called ""flat castle"" without any towers or other tall structures, surrounded by an inner and outer moat. The sluice gate is near the mouth of the Aizugawa River, and in former times, it was used as the entrance and exit to the river, but all that is left today are stone fences. The surroundings are set aside as a park, which has become a recreation area for city residents."
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  • Nanakoshi-mine Peak
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    Wakayama Tanabe-shi Hongucho Takayama
    This peak is a 60-minute drive from the Kamitonda Interchange on the Kisei Expressway via National Routes 42 and 311. It stands to the east of Kumano Hongu Shrine and at the southern edge of the Omine Mountain Range. It is one of the Eight Scenes of Kumano Hongu, and it affords a view of Kumano Hongu Shrine and the old shrine site Oyu-no-Hara, the largest tori (shrine gate) in Japan and the village around the shrine. Nankoshi-no-mine Forest Park on the 260-meter peak boasts nearly 2000 cherry trees of different varieties, so it is a popular spot for people to view the spring blossoms. At the summit of the mountain, which enshrines the bodhisattava Enmei Jizo, is a stele featuring a poem by the 12th-century priest and poet Saigyo Hoshi.
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  • Yatagarasu Post Box
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    Wakayama Tanabe-shi Hongucho Hongu 1110 Kumano Hongu Taisha
    "This is located a 60-minute drive from the Kumano-Odamari Interchange on the Kisei Expressway via National Routes 42 311 and 168. It is a black post box set up under the sacred tree, Tarayo, of Kumano Hongu Shrine. Black is a sacred color, the sum of all colors, the color of Yatagarasu, the big legendary crow with three legs, said to be the incarnation and messenger of the god, and the color that symbolizes the ground that the shrine stands. The Japanese word for ""postcard"" (""hagaki"") means ""leaf writing,"" and it comes from the idea that people wrote on the underside of the leaves of Tarayo with their fingernails. The shrine office sells Yatagarasu Post votive plaques that can be sent through the mail as postcards and will provide commemorative stamps for travelers' albums."
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  • Tenchugura
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    Wakayama Tanabe-shi Ryujinmura Komatagawa 27
    The historic building is a 15-minute walk from the Komatagawa bus stop, but it also has a parking lot, so it is possible to drive there. Built in 1863, it is a Prefectural Cultural Property. Tenchuso's Nigori Nagao and others who were fighting to overthrow the feudal lords and restore the imperial monarchy were being hunted by feudal forces when they turned themselves in. After being given sake and having their wounds treated, and before being conveyed to prison, eight men were imprisoned in this building, which the local farmers were using as a storehouse for rice. The current building is a reconstruction, and an exhibit insides tells the store of the rebels and the poems they wrote before they died.
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  • Suga Shrine
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    Wakayama Hidaka-gun Minabecho Nishihonjo 242
    "A 10-minute drive from the Minabe Interchange. This Shinto shrine can be reached from the center of Minabe Town by crossing the bridge over the Minabe River and following the road nouth along the river, then doubling back up the side road near where the river branches. The shrine is believed to have been established to house the spirit of a god transferred here from Yasaka Shrine in Kyoto by an imperial envoy during the time of Emperor Ichijo. The shrine has been visited by many powerful personages, including not just feudal lords but even Tokugawa Yorinobu, son of the great Tokugawa Ieyasu. The shrine's Honden front shrine, built in the Edo period, has been designated an Important Cultural Property by the prefecture. The shrine holds an autumn festival each year on October 8th and 9th which locals call the ""Goryo-san no Aki Matsuri."""
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  • Strawberry Farm Mart Kobo
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    Wakayama Hidaka-gun Minabecho Oshine 348
    A five-minute drive from the Minabe Interchange. When driving to this strawberry farm, look for the sign on the road with a strawberry on it. The farm also sells an array of original jams designed to suit the palates of different blood types and made from its own ripe, delicious strawberries. The four varieties are differentiated by features such as the addition of honey and whether they are smooth or chunky. In addition, the farm offers strawberry picking from February until the Golden Week holidays in May. Ordinarily, a reservation is required to go strawberry picking, but occasionally visitors may be able to enjoy strawberry picking the day of their visit even without a reservation.
  • Sunshine Farm
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    Wakayama Hidaka-gun Inami Cho Inanbara 5640
    A 10-minute drive from Inami Station and the Inami Interchange. This tourist-oriented farm can be reached be heading west out of the Kirime River-encircled residential area of Inami Town and taking a left at National Route 425. From early January through early May, visitors can go strawberry picking, while grape picking is offered from late July through late September. The farm grows highly sweet Koi strawberries and, depending on the time of year, variously Delaware, Kyoho, and Rosario grapes. Large groups require an advance reservation to go fruit picking. The farm also offers a jam-making activity, and barbecuing.
  • Hidakagawa Town Gengo Fireflies
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    Wakayama Hidaka-gun Hidakagawacho Gengo
    Fireflies can be seen in the Genko district on the west side of Hidakagawa Town. The fireflies can primarily be seen around the Hidaka River, as well as around small streams and irrigation channels in the district. The fireflies appear in most years from late May to around mid-June. The Genko district is famous for its abundance of fireflies, and it holds firefly watching events in late May in the evenings. During the events, visitors can also listen to traditional music performances played on the koto and shamisen.
    Hidakagawa Town Gengo Fireflies image
  • Shishigase-toge Pass Stone-paved Path
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    Wakayama Hidaka-gun Hidakacho Haradani
    "A 15-minute drive from JR Kii-Uchihara Station. This stone-paved path goes through Shishigase Pass 4.1 kilometers away from the Iseki bus stop. One of many stone-paved paths created as part of the various ancient Kumano Kodo pilgrimage routes, it is 503 meters long, making it the longest still in existence. Also designated a Historic Site by Hidakagawa Town, the area around the pass happens to be a border between surrounding municipalities. The historically important path is mentioned in the ancient ""Taiheki"" and ""Genpei Josuki"" historical epics, and those walking it can view historic sites such as the ruins of a mountain castle along its length and imagine what the area looked like in the distant past."
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  • National Historical Site Hiromura Teibo
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    Wakayama Arida-gun Hirogawacho Hiro 1267
    This breakwater has been designated a National Historic Site. After the 1854 Nankai Earthquake, local Goryo Hamaguchi paid out of his own pocket to build it. Some 600-meter-long, five-meter high, and around 20 meter-width at the base, the oceanside breakwater is part of a system of multiple tsunami defenses. To build it, Goryo paid a 56,736 villagers daily wages which in total came to 1,572 ryo coins, preventing the dispersal of the disaster-stricken villagers after the tsunami generated by the earthquake devastated the area. Visitors who apply at the Inamura no Hi no Yakata can receive a guided tour of the breakwater along with the Taikyu-sha academy founded by Goryo and a statue depicting Goryo.
    National Historical Site Hiromura Teibo image
  • Hiro Hachimangu Shrine
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    Wakayama Arida-gun Hirogawacho Kaminakano 206
    This Hachiman shrine is located in Wakayama Prefecture. Just when it was founded is unclear, but it has served locals as a guardian shrine of safe childbirth since ancient times. Shrine structures such as the wooden, Hinoki cypress shingled Honden front shrine and Wakamiya-sha secondary shrine built in the distant Muromachi period, as well as a tanto short sword in the shrine's possession made by Rai Kunimitsu, have been designated Important Cultural Properties. During the shrine's annual major festival in autumn, a type of traditional music and dance performance called the Shippara Odori is performed for the gods; believed to have originated in the Muromachi period, the ancient dance reenacts the rice farming process from seedling planting to harvesting. The shrine is also famously the place where local man Goryo Hamaguchi lit rice straw on fire to guide local villagers to safety when a huge tsunami was headed for the village after a great earthquake in 1854. Accordingly, the shrine holds a fire festival during which bales of rice straw are lit on fire each year in October.
    Hiro Hachimangu Shrine image
  • Yuasa Toy Museum
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    Wakayama Arida-gun Yuasacho Yuasa 679-2
    This museum is housed in a traditional Japanese home building which once also operated as a tofu shop. The facility was opened as part of the Agency for Cultural Affairs' Kominka Model Business project, which aims to repurpose old Japanese homes which are no longer used but which are of cultural value into businesses. The museum retains as much of the original home architecture as possible and displays old toys, particularly from the late 1950s to early 1960s, including kendama cup-and-ball games, beigoma tops, and retro action figures and dolls. There's even an area where visitors can actually play with some of the toys. In addition, the museum has an old-fashioned dagashi cheap sweets shop and a cafe area, making it a space that is fun for children but also a place where adults can revisit their own childhood.
  • Tokushoji Temple
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    Wakayama Arida-shi Itogacho Nakaban 229
    This Seizan Jodo-sect temple is located in Arida City. It is also known as the Chujohime Temple. There are many versions of the story, but according to legend, Chujohime, daughter of Minister of the Right Fujiwara no Toyonari, was cast away by her father's second wife but was sheltered by Ito Harutoki, one of the family's retainers, and lived her life in hiding here in this area. The temple possesses varies items connected to Chujohime. The temple also holds a memorial service on May 14th, the date of her death, and during the event children between the ages of five and 12 put on masks and robes to dress as 25 bodhisattvas and parade around the grounds. The ceremony has been designated an Intangible Folk-Cultural Property by Wakayama Prefecture.
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  • Jinoshima Beach
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Wakayama Arida-shi Hatsushimacho Chisaki
    This swimming beach is located on an uninhabited island in the Kii Channel. The island can be reached via a ferry which leaves from Hatsushima Fishing Port. The beach is 500-meters-long and its waters are extremely clear. The beach has toilets and showers are available from inns near the fishing port. Also, rare for a beach, barbecuing and camping are allowed on the shore. Equipment rentals are available, meaning you don't even have to bring anything yourself. You can also rent fishing gear and the beach is a place where you can experience and out-of-the-ordinary time surrounded by natural beauty.
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  • Tanabe Tourist Center
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    Wakayama Tanabe-shi Minato 1-20

    The persons at the desk were extremely helpful and provided much more advice than what we had found in a guidebook.

  • Roadside Station Minabe Ume Promotion Hall
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    Transportation
    Wakayama Hidaka-gun Minabecho Taniguchi 538-1

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Wakayama prefecture unites pilgrims, food lovers, and culture buffs in a tranquil corner of Japan at the base of the Kii Peninsula. The setting for many a Kumano Kodo pilgrimage trail, Wakayama invites those in search of spirituality from one side of the prefecture to the other, from the 100-plus Buddhist temples of the sacred Mount Koya in the west to the inspiring temples of the Kumano Sanzan set among breathtaking nature in the east. Once the grueling hike is complete, make a beeline for Wakayama city to savor some of the country’s most delicious ramen noodles.

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