Sights in Hanawa, Fukushima

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• 湯岐温泉郷の紅葉

  

  Autumn Leaves of Yujimata Onsen

  #1 ranked in Hanawa

  A spa known since Edo times, with cycling and driving routes through November color.

• 三角形の道

  

  Triangle Road

  #2 ranked in Hanawa

  A cycling course, the fourth certified in Japan by the Runners Information Lab.

• 河童のすり鉢遊歩道

  

  Kappa no Suribachi Trail

  #3 ranked in Hanawa

  A handmade trail maintained by Katagai residents.

• 那倉川渓谷

  

  Nagura River Gorge

  #4 ranked in Hanawa

  A gorge along Prefectural Road 27.

• 富永一朗はなわ漫画廊

  

  Tominaga Ichiro Hanawa Manga Gallery

  #6 ranked in Hanawa

  In the community plaza at JR Iwaki-Hanawa Station, easy to visit while waiting for a train.

• 塙町立あぶくま高原美術館

  

  Abukuma Kogen Art Museum

  #7 ranked in Hanawa

  Shows works by Hanawa-born painter Sugi Saburo and calligrapher Suzuki Seisui.

• 木の博物館

  

  Wood Museum

  #8 ranked in Hanawa

  Displays 300 items from 60 broadleaf species.

• 風呂山公園

  

  Furoyama Park

  #9 ranked in Hanawa

  Mountain azaleas planted after the Russo-Japanese War and tended by townspeople for 120 years.

• 塙町コミュニティプラザ

  

  Hanawa Community Plaza

  #10 ranked in Hanawa

  A building with eight forest-like roofs along Iwaki-Hanawa Station, symbol of the wood town.

• 湯遊ランドはなわダリア園

  

  Yuyu Land Hanawa Dahlia Garden

  #11 ranked in Hanawa

  About 5,000 dahlias of 300 varieties bloom from August to October.

• 向ヶ岡公園の桜

  

  Cherries of Mukaigaoka Park

  #12 ranked in Hanawa

  A park for all classes said to have been built in 1793 by the respected magistrate Teranishi Jujiro.

• 久慈川サイクリングロードの桜並木

  

  Kuji River Cycling Road Cherries

  #13 ranked in Hanawa

  At peak bloom, 5 km of the Kuji River become a splendid tunnel of cherry blossoms.

• 常世温泉　乙女姫の湯

  

  Otomehime no Yu (Tokoyo Onsen)

  #15 ranked in Hanawa

  Said to be a beauty spa because Princess Otome of Shibahara used its spring water.

• はなわ湯岐温泉 湯遊ランドはなわ

  

  Hanawa Yujimata Onsen Yuyu Land Hanawa

  #16 ranked in Hanawa

  Overnight stays and day-use hot-spring bathing.

• 塙ふれあいの森

  

  Hanawa Fureai Forest

  #17 ranked in Hanawa

  A 10.6 ha forest with 26,000 trees including cherry and dogwood.

• 陸奥代官塙陣屋跡

  

  Mutsu Magistrate's Hanawa Jinya Site

  #20 ranked in Hanawa

  Site of the shogunate office for 50,000 koku of direct-rule land, moved to Hanawa in 1729.

• 東浄寺薬師堂

  

  Tojoji Yakushido

  #21 ranked in Hanawa

  A hillside sacred site to which Tojoji was moved at some point.

• 田中愿蔵刑場跡

  

  Tanaka Genzo Execution Site

  #22 ranked in Hanawa

  Site linked to the 1864 Mito-domain uprising in the turbulent last years of the shogunate.

• 台宿薬王寺薬師堂

  

  Daijuku Yakuoji Yakushido

  #23 ranked in Hanawa

  A hall built with donations as Yoneyama Yakushi worship spread around Mount Yamizo from the 1670s.

• 常世観音堂

  

  Tokoyo Kannon Hall

  #24 ranked in Hanawa

  Kannon hall named after Tokoyo, one of the few local place names recorded in ancient chronicles.

• 古宿観音堂

  

  Furujuku Kannon Hall

  #25 ranked in Hanawa

  A hall of an Eleven-faced Kannon with an ink dragon on the ceiling painted by Kano Masunobu in 1742.