Location List

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

【hida/nature】【hida/others】 The road straddle the prefectures between Gifu and Toyama. If you use here, have to submit in-advance application.

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...

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...

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...

Famous for the only private general farm in Japan. There are various events through the year.

Designated as a national natural treasure. As it collapsed suddenly in September, 1999, some columnar joints have remained.

most famous dune in Japan

Small port located in Amatsu area in northwest of Usa city.

Misasa Onsen boasts the highest radon quantity of all the world’s hot springs and is also known as ‘the healing spring’, making this area a popular health resort. A kawara rotemburo at the riversid...

Running between Kooge and Wakasa Stations, this local railway, opened in 1930, features a wooden station house with old-fashioned waiting room and benches, and the old steam locomotive and its faci...

【hida,nature】【hida,others】 This is a path that it called Gaoro path. We can go down to the discontinued line, former kamioka rail line.

【hida,nature】【hida,others】 The footbridge over a prefecture road. It surrounded by trees.

If you walk a little south on “Otonoshirabedori” in Yokkaichi, Usa City, you will see a steep staircase on your right, and if you go up these 108 steps, you will see Jyuhozan Mahayana. The mummy of...

Otome Shrine is closely related to Usa Jingu.

Two wooden Kannon statues are enshrined in a cave.