Sights in Taragi, Kumamoto

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• Nakayama Kannon

  

  Taragi, Kumamoto · 0966-42-1267

  28th Sagara 33 Kannon stop. Sho-Kannon and Four Heavenly Kings are estimated Heian works and prefectural cultural properties.

• Seizan Kannon

  

  Taragi, Kumamoto · 0966-42-1267

  23rd Sagara 33 Kannon stop up 108 steps. Thousand-armed Kannon, largest in Kuma County, is a prefectural important cultural property.

• Shoren-ji

  

  Taragi, Kumamoto · 0966-42-2637

  Founded in 1298 by Sagara Yorimune. Thatched Amida hall shows Kamakura style; Amida triad is a national important cultural property.

• Ogu Shrine Tower Gate

  

  Taragi, Kumamoto · 0966-42-2529

  Said founded in 1416 by Sagara Yorihisa. Kumamoto's oldest Chinese-style thatched tower gate is a prefectural important cultural property.

• Taragi Town Cultural Properties Center Kodai no Kaze Kuro no Kura

  

  Taragi, Kumamoto · 0966-42-7520

  Restored 1942 tuff rice storehouse displaying unusual stone tools, pottery, and obsidian.

• Ota Family Residence

  

  Taragi, Kumamoto

  Said built in late Edo, with hook-shaped expansion for space under strict rules. Shochu production recorded at era's end.

• Taragi Sagara Clan Historic Sites

  

  Taragi, Kumamoto

  After entering, the Sagara main family was the Taragi Sagara clan from Kamakura to mid-Muromachi. Residence and irrigation sites remain.

• Kume Haruyori Shrine

  

  Taragi, Kumamoto

  Said built in the Sengoku period to memorialize exiled rebel Sagara Haruyori and his mother.

• Kobo Daishi Statue at Tsukinoki Daishi-do

  

  Taragi, Kumamoto

  A hall in mountains on the Miyazaki border. Early Muromachi Kobo Daishi statue commissioned by the Sagara clan.