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Gotsu / Hamada

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Roadside Station Yuhi Park Hamada

4.0

56 Reviews

Transportation

Shimane Pref. Hamadashi Haraichou 1203-1

Visitors can eat and shop here overlooking the majestic view of the Sea of ??Japan. There is a very popular restaurant on the second floor offering fresh seafood from the Sea of ??Japan as well as the regional specialty, Iwami pork. At the market on the first floor you can buy Hamada brand items including many fish and processed goods. Various kinds of experience classes are also held.

バイパス沿いにあり、利用後もバイパスに戻れる便利な場所。駐車場も広く、車中泊と思しき車がたくさんいた。ゆうひパークの名の通り夕日が綺麗らしいが、訪問が夜だったので夕日どころか海が見えるのかすら確認できなかった。新しいようで、設備も綺麗。
Hamada Children's Museum of Art

4.5

9 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Shimane Hamada Nobara Cho 859-1

"An art museum designed with an image of ""a ship of creation and beauty floating on the Sea of Japan"" in mind. In addition to various feature exhibits devised to facilitate both ""seeing and creating,"" the Museum School helps them enjoy watching and creating all day long. The museum is located at the Umi no Mieru Culture Park overlooking Hamada Port and was established in 1996 for the children who will become the leaders of the next generation. They seek to cultivate creativity and artistic sensibilities by having children interact with art from an early age."

海外の様々な子どもたちの作品が見れます。企画展もいろいろ、開催されています。子ども連れのご家族で、賑わっていました。
Craft Kan in Koboku no mori

3.5

4 Reviews

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Shimane Pref. Ochigunonanchou Yakami 7154-10

This facility is located in the Koboku no Mori Park surrounded by nature and herbs. It is a tourist information center and also sells products made from the herbs grown in the park as well as popular sweets made in Onan Town and local crafts. It also offers classes to make your own original craft items and is a popular spot.

石見町として出来た頃に来た以来から気に入った場所です。一番はラベンダーが咲いている頃でしょうが季節の花とか有って癒されます。訪問した時には松江市や三次市でコロナウイルスの感染者が増えていて施設とかは臨時休業していましたが庭園は良かったです。
Hanzake Nature Museum of Mizuho

3.5

4 Reviews

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Shimane Pref. Ochigunonanchou Kamikamedani 475

"This Japanese giant salamander museum is located an approximately 20-minute drive from the Oasa Interchange on the Hamada Expressway. It is also called ""hanzake"" in Shimane Prefecture and more commonly ""living fossils,"" the museum has a Japanese giant salamander breeding exhibit. Besides the large water tank where they are bred that is about five meters wide and reproduces the river in Onan-cho, there is a corner there you can learn about the behavior of the giant salamander by experiencing their smell and other things. In addition, it is also a facility where you can learn about the rich nature of Onan-cho. In addition, they also sell cute souvenirs of Japanese giant salamander figurines."

島根県ではオオサンショウウオのことを「ハンザケ」と呼んでいるそうです。今年9月に生まれたばかりの赤ちゃんから、30年前に動物園から譲り受けたお父さんまで、「3千万年前の化石と今の姿がほとんど変わっていない世界最大の両生類」を見ることができました。
Kinta Farm Berryne

5.0

2 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Shimane Hamada Kanagicho Shichijo I735

This tourist farm is a five-minute drive from Kanagi Smart Interchange off the Hamada Expressway. Run by the Chudenko Group's Berryne Inc., they offer strawberry and grape picking. Their greenhouses, embraced by verdant nature, are among the biggest in the prefecture. You can pick strawberries from January into May, and Pione grapes from late August to early October. The elevated strawberry planters are at eye-height for children, and grow a variety of strawberries like popular Benihoppe, low-acidity Akihime, and vitamin-C-rich Sachinoka. Picking is by reservation only for leisurely fruit fun.

This farm offers pick-and-eat strawberries at 2000yen (adult) for 45 minutes. You will be given a small container to contain the fruits as you walk along to pick. At entrance of the greenhouse, you...
Iwami Tatamigaura Beach

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Shimane Pref. Hamadashi Kokubuchou

"This is ""Iwami Tatamigaura"" beach, a nationally designated Natural Monument, where visitors can walk along the rock formations from around 16 million years ago. It is a place where visitors can see rare sights such as the fossils of shells and whales and traces of nodules and magma. Free tours from a volunteer guide are available on Sundays and national holidays from March to June and September to November. "
Roadside Station Mizuho

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Shimane Pref. Ochigunonanchou Shimotadokoro 260-3

This roadside station is popular with people travelling from Hiroshima. The building is designed to look like an old-style sake brewery. Next door is a market selling 400 varieties of freshly caught local seafood and agriculture produce. In addition, the lunchbox of generous amounts of Iwami Beef, as well as the large dishes of sushi, are also popular.
Misumi Obirazakura

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Shimane Hamada Misumicho Yabara 1257 Tono
Hamada Castle Ruins

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Shimane Hamada Tonomachi 123-10

A five-minute drive from the Hamada Interchange on the Hamada Expressway and a 20-minute walk from JR Hamada Station. The ruins of Hamada Castle stand on a small, 70-meter-high hill. During the approximate 250 year span from when it was constructed in the early Edo period until it fell during a battle with the forces of Choshu Domain, the castle served as the main stronghold for the Hamada Domain government. Today, the stone base and walls of the castle still remain, and a park has been built around them. This park is also a popular cherry blossom viewing destination in spring. The site has been designated a Cultural Property by Shimane Prefecture and was also selected as Continued series of Japan's Top 100 Castles in 2017.
Iwami Adachi Museum

4.0

1 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Shimane Hamada Kushirocho 1655-28

This museum stands on the border between Hamada City and Gotsu City. The white-walled building holds a collection of ancient art like swords and pottery centered on pieces from the Iwami region. A single-story steel reinforced concrete building standing amidst white sand and green pines, it was registered as the prefecture's third museum in 1979 in accordance with the Museum Act. To this day, it stands as a hall of arts in Iwami in both name and fact. It offers clear introductions to the cultural history of the Iwami region, including ancient art, folk crafts, and more. Their collection of Iwami Nagahama dolls has a reputation for its number and is particularly impressive.

安達啓二氏のコレクションを中心にして５世紀ころからの石見地方の出土品である刀剣、陶磁器などを展示しています。石見地方の古美術、民芸など長浜人形を見られます。これは博多人形の技法を使っているそうです。福岡に住む自分には興味深いものでした。
Gotsu Honmachi Iraka (I Ra Ka) Kaido

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Shimane Gotsu Honmachi
Iwa Taki Ji no Taki

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Shimane Gotsu Hazumicho Hongo 178-12
Yamamoto White Weeping Cherry Tree

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Shimane Gotsu Kawahiracho Minamikawanobori
Miyauchi Gama Pottery

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Shimane Gotsu Ninomiyacho Kannushi 2211-3

"A pottery studio that has operated in western Shimane's Iwami area since the 1970s. They make Iwami-yaki pottery, a traditional Gotsu handicraft known for large and sturdy earthenware jars and water jugs. This area is called ""Sekishu,"" and pottery making has thrived in the region since ancient times. According to the Iwami region's pottery lore, the district where Miyauchi Pottery is located is said to be the oldest in the tradition. They also hold pottery workshops where you can make items like teacups and bowls under the careful guidance of a traditional craftsman. The methods traditionally cultivated for making larger items has been passed down to the present day where they make practical pottery for modern living like tableware, umbrella stands, and garden sets."
Ogawa-ke Sesshu Garden

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Shimane Gotsu Wakicho 165

A garden at the former Ogawa family residence in Waki -cho, Gotsu City. It is said that the original garden was created in the middle of the Muromachi period, but was redesigned by the master painter Sesshu, who stayed with the Ogawa family. The roughly 363 square meter garden can be viewed from the study. Combining many standing stone slabs of various sizes with a triad of stones at the center, the two-tiered viewing garden with a pond is incorporated into the hillside. At first glance, the layout of the stones looks random, but it's meant to represent the mythical landscape of Horai Sansui. It looks like the garden's been taken from an ink painting; one of the most famous in the San'in region, it's been designated a Shimane Prefecture Cultural Property.
Kuwanoki Kagura Shop

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Shimane Hamada Kanagicho Shimokurubara 1541-8

The Kagura shop is inside Yuya Onsen Refresh Park Kinta no Sato. They make and sell costumes and items for Iwami's traditional cultural art of Iwami Kagura. These extravagant brocade costumes, woven of costly silver and gold thread, are essential for the performances, and are marked by the meticulous care of every stitch, all of it done by hand. In addition to offering inspections of gold brocade samples, they also offer introductions to the various completed costumes and accoutrements used in Kagura. This shop not only produces goods for local Iwami Kagura, but all the various traditional performing arts around Japan. It's perfect for browsing after soaking in the onsen at Refresh Park Kinta no Sato.
Iwami Kokubunji Temple Ruins

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Shimane Hamada Kokubucho 1527

This is one of the provincial monasteries and provincial nunneries built all over Japan by decree of the Emperor Shomu in the Nara period. Part of the remains was excavated as part of a past survey, and now experts believe that a roughly eight meters square tower built over the podium, about 12 meters from the nature-shrouded brick area. It is now part of the grounds of Jodoshinshu Konzoji temple, and only part of the tower and foundation stones remain, so the original figure is unclear. The excavated roof tiles and pots demonstrate that this area was once the center of the Iwami state, as the location of the domain's government.
Roadside Station YuhiPark Misumi

4.0

36 Reviews

Transportation

Shimane Hamada Misumicho Orii 220-1

下関方面に向かう途中で車中泊するため道の駅を探した。こちらの方が目的地に近いかなと思ってナビを設定したが、バイパスから降りてしばらく走ったところにあるため、ゆうひパーク浜田を使った方が下関に行くには早い道を使えると思われる。浜田より小さめの道の駅で、車中泊と思しき車も浜田より少なかった。落ち着いて寝たいたらこちらの方がいいかもしれない。売店があるが、店が開く前に出発してしまったので内容不明...
Roadside Station Sun Piko Gotsu

Transportation

Shimane Gotsu-shi Ushirojicho 995-1
Hamada Tateishi Shiyo Art Museum

4.0

6 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Shimane Hamada Misumicho Furuichiba 589

石本正が、最後までアトリエで大切にしていた1万枚を超える未公開の素描の中から厳選された作品は、素晴らしかったです。なかなか、こだわりのある美術館だと感じました。

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What Shimane prefecture lacks in size and population, it makes up for in scenery and ancient mythology. Izumo-taisha, in the middle of the prefecture, is said to be Japan’s oldest Shinto shrine, where stories that delve into the creation of the Japanese race have been passed down over centuries. The 180 Oki Islands, a 40-minute ferry ride north of Sakaiminato, offer an undiscovered paradise well off the beaten track.