Yamagata Photo spot The shrine's scroll picture of the Endo-no-Gesoten Photo spot Prefecture Miyagi Strolling Around Amitabha Tathagata is said to Endo at the Uzen-Chitose grant a person one great wish in Station is a supermarket Prefecture Jogi Area map C their lifetime. After visiting the Yamagata ⇔ specialized in "gesoten," squid shrine, enjoy walking around the leg tempura.There is no end to Jogi garden and trying the different Yamagata citizen's fondness of Gojunoto ○ gesoten.It is eaten as a toping ① food on offer. 48 map C ○ From Ayashi Station, about a 40 min. ride 279 on soba and ramen, as a snack Yamagata's Best 100 Mountains Joginyorai Saihoji Temple from Ayashiekimae bus stop to the final stop or as appetizer, and is loved on the bus to Jogi Yasuragi by people of all generations.En- Mt. Ookayama Ariji Kokeshi Store Tea Room○ ① Joginyorai Saihoji Temple do is the leading shop for This impressive mountain has an Photo Homei Shijuhachi spot Cafe Norah○ ○Juri Taira no Sadayoshi, vassal of Taira no Sendai Toshogu Shrine gesoten in Yamagata.Please try trapezoidal shape that conveys a sense of Taki Falls ② Shigemori, lived as a priest at Saihoji 天童 the getosen fried in healthy rice Nikkawa River stability. From the peak, you can see the This series of waterfalls is Temple after being spared by the Minamoto Enshrining the shogun Tokugawa oil!Locals gather in the eat-in Yamagata Basin, the Asahi Mountain Range, Yamagata's Best 100 Mountains Sendai City Clan following the war, changing his name formed of dozens falls in a wide Joginyorai Saihoji Temple Ieyasu, the Sendai Toshogu has corner where sometimes Mount Gassan, Mount Hayama, and beyond. Mt. Omoshiroyama Waterworks Museum to Jogi. This is why the region is now foreign tourists coming off the range of shapes and sizes. ○Sadayoshi Mausoleum called Jogi and why Saihoji Temple is also been a fixture amongst the silent Climbers can view Oriental Swamp Pink, Photo known as Jogi Nyorai. The temple has Senzan Line when heading for This mountain has multiple trails suited for Shinchaya spot groves of Sendai for more than Dogtooth Violet, Golden-rayed Lily, and ○ Get off at the Homei Shijuhachi Sanmon○ ④ tearooms where you can enjoy matcha Ginzan also come to take a climbers of all ability levels. When the Taki Iriguchi bus stop Jogikan 360 years. This ancient shrine other flowers along the trails. The conditions are right, you can see Mount Chokai Tennozuka○ ⑤ green tea while viewing the Gojunoto represents the pinnacle of the break. Kaempferi azaleas bloom beautifully in May. Marukan Shoten ③ Pagoda on the shrine's grounds. ○ About 1 min. walk from from the peak. Mountain Stream ○ Hayatomi technical prowess of the Date Shimizukan ⑥ Uzen-Chitose Station ○ About a five min. walk from Tateyama Station ○ About a 11 min. walk from Omoshiroyama Kogen Station Fishing Spot culture established by Date Map ○ TEL. 023-686-2001 (Tateyama Community Center) Aoshita River Daiichi Dam ○ Open Hours: ○ TEL. 023-695-2816 (Yamadera Tourism Association) (See the front ⑦ Jogi Tofuten Masamune. Photo Credit: Tateyama Community Center page for details.) ②Ariji Kokeshi Store 10:00 - 19:00 Photo Credit: Mountain Information ○Hayasaka Liquor Store ○ Closed: Sundays, Mondays Portal Site "Yamagata Yama" These Zao Takayu-style kokeshi ○ About a three min. walk from Toshogu Station ○Gosuke Tea House ○ TEL. 023-681-7711 dolls feature cute flat heads and Omoshiroyama-Kōgen Sakunami Onsen bracken fern patterns on their Takatama 13 14 Oku-Nikkawa bodies. Jogi Cultural Shirakawa River Jokaen Exchange Center○ ○ 22 map D ○ Take bus bound for Jogi ○ Jogi Kokeshi Dolls Sendai 6cm dolls From ¥1,000 at the Ayashi Station mae Environment See the“Flavors of the Senzan Line” ○ Visiting Hours: 7:00 - 16:30 Tachiyagawa24 Yamadera 13 bus stop,alight at ○ Open Hours: 9:00 - 16:00 section on the front page ○ (Operating hours are subject to Izumi-chuo Sakunami “Otemon iriguchi.” and ○ Closed Irregularly change during the New Year period.) Ou Main Line River Deep silence, the shrill of cicadas, ○ Open / Hours that entry is Development ○ TEL. 022-393-2405 for information on ③ - ⑦. ○ TEL. 022-393-2011 map E permitted to dam water Okura Damm seeps into rocks. source: 9：30 - 1 6：0 0 Matsuo Basho 12 ○ Closed: Mondays (Closed Urushiyama the following day if falls on Safflowers of Takase District nationalholiday) 19 December 1 - March 31 Let’s go to Akiu Onsen 275 ○ TEL.022-393-2188 15 This district was Matsuo Basho and Yamadera from Ayashi Station! 37 Akiu Onsen is a 15-minute ride 457

the model for the Tohoku Expressway 276 Yamadera Yamadera, one of the Tohoku region’s from Ayashi Station on the Sendai Minami-Dewa setting of the most notable ancient temples, is where Kumagane City Bus “Akiu Onsen/Futakuchi” 16 route. Subway 17 anime film "Only the poet Matsuo Basho For further details please visit the Namboku Line 19 Yesterday." The composed his haiku "Deep silence, the Akiu Tourist Information Center Takase 11 ○ TEL. 022-398-2323 20 Tateyama Yamagata shrill of cicadas, seeps into rocks." There Safflower Festival are 1,015 stone steps to the inner is held here in late sanctum where the Great Buddha Hall is Kitayama Kita- Uzen-Chitose 18 July each year. located. Due to the shade of the trees Sendai 13 growing there, the stone steps remain Rikuzen 4 112 １7 4 ○ About a 20 min. walk from Takase Station cool to the touch even during summer. Tōhoku ○ Viewing Season: July ○ Free entry -Shirasawa

Expressway Yamagata Try thinking about Basho’s words as you 55 Rikuzen Fukushidai Mae 3 Aterazawa Line ○ TEL. 023-686-3341 (Takase Safflower Fureai Center) ⒸDate Bushotai 5 tread each step. ニッカウヰスキーNikka Whisky Hirose RIver -Ochiai Mamigasakigawa River Ayashi

Higashi-Kanai 10 "Fruit Line" Miyagikyo Distillery 457 48 2 Tōshōgū 宮城峡蒸溜所 9 8 Kuzuoka 6 The Miyagikyo Distillery was built map A Hojusan Risshaku-ji Temple(Yamadera) map E by Masataka Taketsuru and his 7 Kunimi Kita-Yamagata 19 Get around fellows to realize the further future Senzan Line map B 45 Yamagata City on the ○ About a 7 min. walk from Yamadera Station ○ Admission: Adults ¥300 / Children ¥100 1 2 3 of whisky. Hirose RIver 48 Visit the Sendai's Beni-chan Bus! Yamadera, officially known as Hojusan Risshakuji, is a mountain temple of the ○ About a 25 min. walk from Sakunami Station 8 tourist spots on Rikuzen -Ochiai map B map F East Route-West Route Tendai sect of founded in the year 860 by the priest Ennin on the ○ A free shuttle runs between JR Sakunami ① 48 ⑥ Tsutsumiya Ochiai Main Shop 1 This bus departs from request of Emperor Seiwa. Famous for its long stone steps and inspiring Station and the Miyagikyo Distillery on Photo Noodle Man Loople Sendai Saturdays, Sundays and national holidays spot the East Exit of ②Ito Shoten Loople Sendai is a loop bus and visitｓ tourist spots in the scenery, it is one of the most popular sightseeing spots in Yamagata. After throughout the year, Sendai To Arai western part of the city service that loops around your walk, enjoy trying the different foods on offer at the foot of the ○ Free Tour Hours: 9:00 to 11:30, major tourist spots in Sendai City. (West Route), and 12:30 to 15:30 31 the city center and eastern parts mountain.If you travel west, you can enjoy some of what Yamagata's orchards Okunoin Hall Niomon Gate Godaido Hall ⑤ The looping route is quick Subway Tozai Line 20 *Tours are conducted every 15 to 20 minutes. Orikyu and convenient. Yamagata (East Route), respectively. have to offer. (Orchards located in the area of the map are marked by ) Mizusawaya Inquiries: 4 5 5 ○ Fee: Free *Required time: About 70 min. Daini Hirosegawa Bridge ③ Inquiries: Yamagata City Planning and ○ Closed: New Year's holidays Sendai Transportation Bureau Tohoku Main Line Coordination Section (about. 2 weeks) and Factory Holidays (Kumagane Railway Bridge) TEL. 023-641-1212 "Yamadera and Safflowers" were certified Information Center Tohoku Shinkansen Photo as a Heritage in FY2018. ○ TEL. 022-395-2865 TEL. 022-222-2256 *See the model courses on the front page Menkobo Kiwamiya spot 1 Safflowers are said to have been brought ○ See the Nikka website for details. for details. 132 348 286 to the region by the Buddhist priest https://www.nikka.com/distilleries/miyagikyo/ Ayashi Bypass ④ Japan's Ennin, the founder of Risshaku-ji Temple Tasting lecture tour is also available See the front page (Yamadera). The trade of safflowers to (see the front page.) 48 for restaurant information. Exploring Highest Ramen map F the went on to become a To Akiu Onsen Between major industry following the Nokyodo Hall and Kaisando Hall Midahora Rock Kita- Consumption! establishment of water transportation on Stations Kita-Yamagata Station the by the samurai warlord 6 7 8 ⑧ Onsen Town Sakunami Tourist Information Plaza Lasanta and Kitayama Station Mogami Yoshiaki, bringing safflower Sakunami Onsen map D merchants vast wealth and culture. In addition to providing tourism ① Sakaeya Bunten to Yamagata Station Secret Hot Spring of the information and selling local Kitayama Gozan Area ○ Hours: 11：30 - 18：00 (approximately) Lord's of the Sendai Clan products, this roadside rest stop also ○ Irregular Holidays ○ TEL. 023-643-8866 Ramen Walk holds events on the last Sunday of When , the first lord of the Sendai Clan, ② Kuramai Tanuki each- month from spring to fall. founded Sendai he followed the Five Mountain System ○ Hours: 11：30 - 14：30 Aterazawa Line ○ Open Hours: used in Kyoto and Kamakura when deciding the locations ○ Closed: Mondays ○ TEL. 023-645-9557 To Sendai Sta. 3 Risshaku-ji Temple Gate Konponchudo To Yamagata 9:00 - 17:00. "Fruit Line" Hombo Building (Main Hall) The free-flowing hot spring ○ Closed during the New Year period of temples. This is the reason for the high number of ③ Aji-butai Ennichi 2 foot bath (free of charge) is ○ TEL. 022-391-4126 ○ Hours: 11：30 - 14：00, 17：30 - 20：00 View from (Monk's Dwelling) popular. (Closed during historic and ancient temples in the Kitayama area. ○ Closed: Sunday evening, Mondays Godaido Hall ○ About 1.8km between Kita-Sendai Station and Kitayama Station ⒸDate Bushotai ○ TEL. 023-643-6761 Giant Hotpot Nidaime Nabe-Taro winter) ⑧ L'Albero Cafe ① 3 4 ④ Midoriya 19 Kita-Yamagata To Subway ○ Hours: 11：00 - 15：00 5 You’ve got to try This pot was used from 1993 to Sakunami Shop Kitayama Izumi-chuo Sta. ○ Closed: Sundays, Obon and New Years holiday the konnyaku balls 2018 every September at "Japan's 48 (located inside Lasanta) ○ TEL. 023-622-4079 Biggest Imoni-kai Festival" in map A Android at Yamadera! Enjoy a coffee or meal in the warm ⑤ Imoni Soba Restaurant Sato-ya Yamagata city. In August 2019, after 4 Kitayama Cemetery ¥100 (One Skewer) 11 To Sendai Sta. atmosphere created by the Kitayama Tsutsumimachi-ten Shrine○ ○ Hours: 11：30 - 15：00 the pot was retired, it was relocated attached cafe's naturally-finished Tunnel ○ Closed: Mondays, has temporary closures to Yamadera as a symbol to promote Located between the historic Sakunami and Sekiyama Nichijoji Temple○ ○ TEL. 023-622-2321 ○ Hiraga Kokeshiten interior and the antique tools that the regions' Imoni culture. ⑥ Photo 22 ② highways (currently National Route 48) that connect Yuzukushi Salon Yugami Shrine decorate it. ⑥ Mendoda Get push Ichinobo ❶ ⑦ spot Rinnoji ○ Hours: 11：30 - 14：30, 18：30 - 0：30 Sendai City and Yamagata City, Sakunami Onsen has ○ Coconut and Tomato Spiced Chicken Curry and Drink Set Temple⑥ ③ Subway Yosenkaku Lasanta ⑤ Kita-Sendai Sta. 11：30 - 16：30, 18：30 - 02：00 (Fri/Sat) ③ notifications 8 Senjuin COZABKannon→ Iwamatsu Ryokan❷ ⑧ ¥1,100 (Individual ¥950) ④ ○ Closed: Sundays, One Monday Per Month been a favorite hot springs destination of the people of Mangetsu○ ○ Operating Hours: 11:30 - 16:00 (Last Order 15:30) Shifukuji ② ① ○ (Irregular) ○ TEL. 023-673-9109 Bunshokan about WiFi GELATO Temple Kakuhanji Sendai for centuries. In addition, it is also said to have ○ Closed： Irregularly Temple Toshoji Komyoji To Sendai Sta. ④ iOS 7 Miyako no Yu ○ TEL. 022-395-3430 Temple Temple Kashima 3 ⑦ Goju-Ban Hanten ❸ hotspots been the secret hot springs of the lords of the Sendai Yunohara Hotel ❸❺ Shrine ○ Hours: 11：00 - 02：00 Kajo Park Police Box○ ❷Yamagata Museum○ of Art in Yamadera! Yamadera-yaki, Nagase Tobo Clan.The abundant hot spring waters there are known LaLa Resort Hotel ⑩ Les Copains de Campagne Shurinji ○ Closed: Sundays ○ TEL. 023-623-0050 ② To Yamagata Sta.Green Green ❹ Kita-Sendai ○ Get special Yamadera ※Check out the Spend some time Temple○ ❶ Fumotoya Activities section Photo for their cosmetic effects. Whether it's a wooden ⑧ Ramen Nakamuraya ⑤ Yamagata area content via the spot relaxing at this Mogami on the front page for details. ○Kitayama Post Office ○ Hours: 11：00 - 14：30, 17：30 - 19：30 City Office "Free Wi-Fi YAMAGATA" Honten○ open-air bath, natural stone bath, or a standing-depth hand-made log cabin ○ Closed: Mondays (Closed the following business ⑧ Yoshiaki 6 day if Monday is a holiday) smartphone app! bath, each of the different inns has a different style to restaurant. Onkeiji ⑨ Historical Museum Mitoya Maidoya ○ Hours: 11:00 - 13:00 Shrine○ ○ TEL. 023-646-5231 ⑥ The exterior of enjoy. Sakunami Temple○ ⑦ Shokudo ○ March to November / Rinnoji Temple To Subway Sendai Sta. ⑨ Ramen Nu-Bou Yamagata Ekimae Store ⑪ Yamadera Basho Open: Saturdays, Sundays, 20 Yamadera Tourism Association ① ○ Memorial Museum ⑧ Yugami The temple grounds contain the grave of Hasekura Tsunenaga, who was ○ Hours: 11：00 - 14：00, 16：00 - 20：00、 ⑩ ※Check out the Yamagata Ramen ⑦ Hiraga Kokeshi Store Mondays ,Tuesday s 16：00 - 21：00 (Fri/Sat) ○ Closed: Wednesdays ⑫ 12 Komyoji ordered by the feudal lord Date Masamune to travel to Europe as an envoy. ○Takifudo Ki-Soba Guide on the front page for details. features a great view of Shrine December to January/ ① ⑩ Ramen Keiryu Yamagata Ekimae Store Yamagata Tachiyagawa Yamadera.The backdrop The history of Sakunami kokeshi dolls The white snake is an ⑨● Open: Saturdays, Sundays, Temple It also contains a monument to the Franciscan friar Luis Sotelo. (There are River of the Senzan Line’s goes back some 150 years. You can national holidays competing theories about Hasekura's grave.) ○ Hours: 11：00 - 15：00, 18：00 - 02：00 ○ Closed: Wednesdays offering to Yugami Tsutsumiya February: Closed ○ TEL. 023-616-5123 trains with the mountain watch the entire process, from carving to Sakunami Shop 11 Shrine's spirit of hot ○ TEL. 022-395-3110 Toshoji's temple grounds are filled with trees, one of which is the marumigaya, ⑪ Shuchan Ramen Yamagata Sta. main shop ←Fruit orchard temple scenery certainly painting. Toshoji makes this view worth water. The shrine is ⑨Tsutsumiya To Sendai Sta. ② a large 500 year-old tree said to have been planted to protect the castle town ○ Hours: 11:00 - 02:15 ○ Closed: Tuesdays ○ TEL. 023-632-5308 Endo Bussan○ ○ Sakunami Kokeshi Dolls Temple from evil. The tree is a designated national natural monument. ⑫ Kiwami Chukasoba Hirota, Yamagata Station Store seeing. 6cm dolls beloved by locals as a Sakunami Shop Yamadera Post Office○ From ¥1,000 Aoba Shrine enshrines the deified spirit of ○ Hours: 11：00 - 14：30, 17：00 - 22：00 ○ Closed: Sundays ○ Open Hours: spiritual place that This is Tsutsumiya's first location. ⑩● Aoba ○ TEL. 023-666-7627 Takefuruhiko-no-mikoto (Date Masamune, First 7:00- 19:00 gives them strength. See the front page for Les Copains ● de Campagne ③ Shrine ○ Closed Irregularly restaurant and shop information. Lord of the Sendai Clan). A grand spring festival is Nikka Whisky held on the 24th and 25th of May in commemoration of the anniversary ○Enzo ○ TEL. 022-395-2523 Miyagikyo Distillery ❸ Bunshokan Yamadera of Masamune's death. Hotel Name TEL Hot Spring Day Use Fee (w/tax) *We recommend calling ahead and making reservations before going. On the third Sunday of May, the "Sendai Aoba Festival (main festival)" This historic brick building Store (organised by the Sendai Aoba Festival Sponsors' Group) is held and a was built in 1916 in the portable shrine from Aoba shrine is carried around downtown Sendai. ❶ Kajo Park British modern revivalist Yamadera 022-395-2131 Currently not accepting day-trip bathers style. Railway Turntable 9 ❶ Yuzukushi Salon Ichinobo ○ https://www.ichinobo.com/sakunami/ Kakuhanji Shrine enshrines the father of Date Masamune, Date Terumune, （Yamagata Castle Ruins） Kakuhanji ○ About a 25 min. walk at Yamadera Station Adults ¥1,670, Children (Elementary students) ¥800 who died an untimely death. The shrine also contains the grave of Date This park features a number of from Yamagata Station 15 9 Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum 022-395-2211 Hours: Weekdays and Saturdays /11:00 - 15:00 (Last entry at 14:00) ④ Temple Masamune's mother, Hoshunin, and a memorial tower for his third son athletic and cultural facilities and ❷ Yamagata About a 5 min. walk ❷ Yosenkaku Iwamatsu Ryokan Sundays and Holidays: 11:00 - 14:00 (Last entry at 13:00) ○ https://ssl.iwamatu-ryokan.com/ Munekiyo. is a popular place for rest and from Hatagomachi Museum of Art Nichome bus stop This memorial museum was built in 1989 to Weekdays: Adults ¥800 , Children (Age 2 and Up) ¥400 Weekends/Holidays: Adults ¥1,200, Children (Age 2 and Up) ¥600 relaxation for city residents. 10 Hours: 11:00 - 16:00(Last entry at 15:00) Shuttle To/From Sakunami Station: Yes (Shuttle is not available for Shifukuji Temple is known as a place of learning of Bontenmaru (the childhood ○ About a 15 min. walk from (Take the Beni-chan Bus from To Yamagata Sta. commemorate the 300th anniversary of haiku 022-395-2241 Shifukuji Home to approx. 1,500 cherry JR Yamagata Station East Exit) ❸ Yunohara Hotel day spa only customers but is available to customers eating at the restaurant.) name of Masamune). More than 1,000 hydrangeas are planted on the Yamagata Station poet Matsuo Basho’s 1689 visit to Yamadera. Closed: Wednesdays (Subject to irregular closures, Please inquire in advance.) ○ https://www.yunohara.co.jp/ ⑤ blossom trees, it is also Yamagata ○ Open Hours: ○ Open Hours: 9:00 - 16:30 Temple grounds, giving it the nickname Ajisaiji, or Hydrangea Temple. City's biggest destination for This device was used to turn around the Writings of Basho and his disciplines are on Please inquire in advance in regards to closures. Adults ¥1,100, Children(3 y.o. to elementary age students)¥550 10:00 - 17:00 ○ Closed: 1st and 3rd Mondays This temple was established by Date Mochimune. The temple's large garden viewing. (Entrance closes at 16:30) (Closed on the following steam locomotives that ran between display in the hall along with documents on his 022-395-2011 Hours: Weekdays 11:00 - 15:00(Last entry at 14:00), ❹ LaLa Resort Hotel Green Green features a three-storied pagoda , pond, and arbor, and blooms with a variety of ○ About a 10 min. walk from Yamagata Station ○ Entry fee: General Entry ¥600 Tuesday if a holiday falls on a Yamagata and Yamadera. It was also used work "The Narrow Road to the Interior." You can Weekends/Holidays: 11:00 - 14:00 (Last entry at 13:00) ○ https://hotel-gg.com Rinnoji Monday) ⑥ seasonal flowers. Every Saturday, the temple holds seated meditation ○ Open Hours: (Differs depending on the to turn the D51 steam locomotive around. Stone Sauna ＋ Hot Spring Adults ¥1,800, Children (12 and Under) ¥1,200 Hot Spring Only Adults ¥800, Children (12 and Under) ¥600 exhibition) Closed during End of year also enjoy a cup of matcha in the tea room. Temple April - November: 5:00 - 22:00 Hours: 10:00 - 19:00(Last entry at 17:00) sessions that are open to the public. Visit the website for more details. December - March: 5:30 - 22:00 ○ TEL. 023-622-3090 New Year period (Dec.29-Jan.3) 022-796-8026 *Please watch your step when touring 10 ❺ Miyako no Yu Closed: Thursdays Fridays Has summer vacation and winter period closures ○ http://miyakonoyu.com/ https://www.rinno-ji.or.jp/zazen ○ TEL. 023-641-1212 ○ Admission: Free ○ Roaster Sakanoue Café ○ TEL. 023-635-5500 the area. ○ Garden Open Hours: 8:00 - 17:00 (Open Daily) ○ Admission: ¥300 (Children 12 and Under: Free) Kita-Sendai Oku-Nikkawa Rikuzen-Shirasawa Omoshiroyama-K Kumagane Kita-Yamagata Fukushidai Mae Uzen-Chitose Yamadera Rikuzen-Ochiai Yamagata Sakunami Tateyama Kitayama Tōshōgū Kuzuoka Kunimi Sendai Takase Ayashi Tōhoku

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