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Sights in Shimogo, Fukushima
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道の駅しもごう
Roadside Station Shimogo
Roadside station on Route 289 with mountain views over Minamiaizu, food and local products.
塔のへつり
To no Hetsuri
The finest scenery on the Okawa Line, with strange rocks standing like towers.
猿楽台地のそば畑
Sarugaku Plateau Buckwheat Fields
About 40 ha of buckwheat fields at 600 to 700 m that burst into white bloom.
湯野上温泉駅
Yunokami Onsen Station
A rare thatched-roof station on the Aizu Railway.
戸赤のやまざくら
Mountain Cherries of Toaka
Oyamazakura cherries carefully protected by locals as boundary trees since the Meiji era.
鏡ケ沼
Kagaminuma Pond
A 3 ha hand-mirror-shaped pond west of Mount Sudate.
日暮の滝
Higurashi Falls
Falls on the upper Katoyagawa in two drops of about 40 m and 15.6 m.
大内ダム
Ouchi Dam
A multipurpose dam forming the upper pond of the Shimogo pumped-storage plant, generating up to 1 million kW.
大川ライン
Okawa Line
Part of Okawa-Hatori Prefectural Nature Park, with gorge scenery along the clear Okawa River.
大川ダム
Okawa Dam
A multipurpose dam for flood control, water supply and 1 million kW of power.
小野川渓谷
Onogawa Gorge
Flows from Ouchi pond past the foot of Mount Ono to join the Aga River.
大内宿町並み展示館
Ouchi-juku Townscape Museum
A large thatched building in the middle of Ouchi-juku, rebuilt on the site of the old honjin inn.
大川ダム西公園
Okawa Dam West Park
A park on the left bank of Lake Wakago at Okawa Dam along Route 121.
下郷町養鱒公園いこいの広場
Shimogo Trout Park Ikoi no Hiroba
Varied leisure facilities on spacious grounds.
鶴沼川渓谷
Tsurunuma River Gorge
A stream from Lake Hatori that gathers mountain brooks and joins the Aga River in Shimogo.
大峠
Otoge Pass
In Nikko National Park, an old Aizu road where the western army entered Aizu in the Boshin War.
観音沼森林公園
Kannonnuma Forest Park
Park with nine trails around Kannon Pond, spring cherry blossoms, glacial-relic bogbean flowers and birdlife.
湯野上温泉
Yunokami Onsen
A hot-spring village famous for its rare thatched-roof station.
観音川渓谷
Kannongawa Gorge
Breathtakingly beautiful in fresh green and autumn color.
下郷町物産館
Shimogo Products Hall
A local products shop at the entrance to To no Hetsuri on Route 121.
万願寺
Manganji Temple
A Soto Zen temple built in the mid-Edo period.
中山風穴地特殊植物群落
Nakayama Wind-Cave Plant Community
Cold air from gaps in columnar rocks lets alpine plants grow below 800 m.
中山の大ケヤキ
Great Zelkova of Nakayama
A zelkova about 1,000 years old, 36 m tall and 12 m around, in a garden on Route 131.
大内宿
Ouchi-juku
A thriving post town on the Aizu Nishi Kaido in the Edo period.
大川羽鳥県立自然公園
Okawa-Hatori Prefectural Nature Park
The Okawa river gorge and the upper Tsurunuma River dammed to form Lake Hatori.
小野観音堂
Ono Kannon Hall
A Soto Zen hall, the Daijiden, enshrining an Eleven-faced Kannon moved here.
高倉神社の大スギ
Great Cedar of Takakura Shrine
An 800-year-old cedar, 56 m tall, at Takakura Shrine west of Ouchi-juku.
五霊神社の大カラマツ
Great Larch of Gorei Shrine
A rare 500-year-old larch, 43 m tall.
嶽観音堂
Take Kannon Hall
By the pond in Kannonnuma Forest Park, said to have been founded by Sakanoue no Tamuramaro.
円福寺の大ケヤキ
Great Zelkova of Enpukuji
A zelkova partly scorched in a fire in the 1820s.
旭田寺中ノ沢観音堂
Kyokudenji Nakanosawa Kannon Hall
A full Japanese-style hall with surrounding corridor in Nanboku-cho style.