Location List

Sanbutsuji is a mountain temple on the premises of 900-meter high Mt Mitoku. The temple, built into the mouth of a cave on a sheer precipice, is a one-of-a-kind national architectural treasure furt...

<The Last Samurai> and popular television dramas have been shot. The historical and natural landscape could be used for various scenes.

Tokoji Temple was founded in 1362 as part of the Rinzai School of Buddhism. It is said to have then been rebuilt from ruins in the later 17th century after being destroyed in the war. Since that ti...

Sada Shrine is a mysterious shrine known to the locals of Ajimu Town in Usa City. The main hall and the torii gate, renovated in 1864, have been in use for more than 150 years. Remains of a reverbe...

Sadaki Itonaga donated the cost to build this pagoda as well as many artworks to his hometown. The pagoda was built in 1983 and is open to the public for free of charge.

Higashi Honganji Betsuin, a temple of the Shinshu Otani-ha, and Nishi Honganji Yokkaichi Betsuin, a templeof the Jodo Shinshu Honganji School, are adjacent to each other. The main hall of the Higas...

Gokuraku-dori is a small path between Higashi Honganji and Nishi Honganji Yokkaichi Betsuin, an area that flourished as a temple town of Kyushu Gobo.

The area where Takasu Suspension Bridge Park is located is famous for its beautiful landscape, including the Takasu Kannon-do (temple of the goddess of mercy) built against a cliff wall.

A cave that was handmade at the end of the Edo period, depicting heaven and hell.

Ryuganji Temple is a small wooden temple built inside an enormous rock cave. In the inner sanctum of the temple floats a triad of floating wooden Buddhas, said to have been built by Gyoki Priest in...

Takasu Kannon Onie is a festival held on January 4th. With a history of over 1200 years, the festival, held to pray for good health and rich harvest, has been designated as the city’s Intangible Fo...

Go-O Jinja Shrine, located within the Usa Jingu, is dedicated to Wakenokiyomaro who resolved a national crisis by receiving a divine message from the Hachiman deity when the Buddhist monk Dokyo att...

Kyoshuzuka Tumulus is a tomb said to be the place where the Hachiman deity buried a hundred heads of the Hayato people to memorialize them after suppressing their uprising. It was designated a hist...

The Enma Cave is located in the Fukugonji Temple. There are 16 Rakan (Arhat) statues inside the cave. The Rakanbashi Bridge is a stone bridge over a small pond in front of the cave.

The Mid-autumn Festival (Hojoe Ceremony = release of captive animals) is held at the vermillion-lacquered Wama Shrine Ukiden near the mouth of Yorimogawa River which runs near the Usa Shrine into t...

God for productiveness of grain, loads of fish and traffic safety.

Built from 1570 to 1573, this Kannon-do of Bandaiji Temple stands at the southern tip of Abuto Cape. Worshipped for years to pray for safe childbirth and safe voyages, the hall is in perfect harmon...

It’s located on the heights which covered with green trees. Old townscape’s omotesando becomes courses of the Kanazawa marathon. There are parking lot, toilet, and waiting room.

The temple that has a great view where people can overlook the city area of Kanazawa. The precincts with full of nature have the main temple, halls, vermilion bridge, observation deck, and “karesa...

Usa Jingu Sando is the approach leading to the Usa Jingu.

Legend "Rabbit in Inaba" is famous.

Built in 7th century.

The shrine which enshrines the first lord of the domain of Kaga, Toshiie MAEDA and his legal wife O-Matsu-no-kata. The Shinmon (shrine gate) is designated as a nationally important cultural proper...

These stone steps were used in the film ‘I Are You, You Am Me’ (also known as ‘Exchange Students’) for the scene where the minds and bodies of the boy and girl are switched.