I Go to Mohka City on a Rainy Day

 

My wife and I went to Mohka city. 

We visited Chourenji temple, a cotton museum, Kubo Memorial Museum and a hot spa house on a rainy day.

It was even on Sunday, we met few people in those sites due to both COVID-19 and bad weather.

It was our first visit to the sites. We were able to spend very meaningful afternoon and had an enjoyable drive.

I Go to Imamiya Shrine in Sakura City

 

My wife and I dropped in for a short visit to Imamiya shrine in Sakura city.

There was a famous sake brewery "Senkin" near the shrine.

I once drank sparkling rice wine produced by the brewery more than five years ago.

I still remember how tasty that rice wine was.

I Go to the Biwazuka Kofun in Oyama City

 

The Biwazuka Kofun (ancient tomb) is located in Oyama city, Tochigi prefecture.

The city was the central region of ancient Shimotsuke province, and contains many kofun and the ruins of the provincial capital. 

The Biwazuka Kofun uses a natural hill as its base. 

The length is 123 meters, width is 70 meters and 9 meters high; it is said the second largest in Tochigi prefecture, estimated that this kofun dates from the first half of the 6th century.

I Go to a Restaurant, "10 Picnic Tables"

Murasaki Shikibu was a Japanese novelist, poet during the Heian period. 

She is best known as the author of The Tale of Genji, widely considered to be one of the world's first novels, written in Japanese between about 1000 and 1012.

The board in the above picture, located near "10 Picnic Tables" says that those are called tomb stones of Murasaki Shikibu.

But, according to Wikipedia, her tomb was built in Kyoto region. 

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I Go for a Mountain-Walking

My wife and I went to Tomatsuri-Ryokuchi for a trekking. 

We enjoyed walking along the mountain trails for several hours.

It was a little too early for seeing mountain cherry blossoms.

We met only one guy during the hiking.

All photos of today's post were taken by my wife, Kiyono using her smartphone. 

I Go to Koumyouji-Temple and Sakura-City Museum

It is said that the Koumyouji temple was built in the year of 1427 and was moved to the current place in 1597 at the same time when Katsuyama castle was destroyed.

Sakura City Museum is quite new comparing to the temple. Less than thirty years have passed since it was built.

Pictures painted by famous Japanese artist Ikuo Hirayam and others were exhibited there.

I Go to Japanese Folk House Museum

 

My wife and I went to an old style Japanese folk house museum in Takanezawa, just one-hour-drive away from home.

The house, now is a museum, used to be a farmer's  house. 

The farmer seemed to have kept a horse in his house.

There were many old farm tools displayed in the museum. Most of them were made of wood, bamboo and some part metals.

I Go to Izurusan-Manganji Temple

I went to Izurusan-Manganji the other day. 

Even the temple is very famous for their traditional Japanese festivals, there was no other visitor nor a prayer there at that time.

We enjoyed staying for about an hour, taking pictures and seeing religious monuments at the site surrounded by quiet mountains.

This is a parking lot near the entrance of the temple site. There was no other car parking there except ours.