Sights in Sakegawa, Yamagata

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• Great Cedar of Kosugi (Totoro Tree)

  

  Sakegawa, Yamagata · 0233-55-2111

  A great cedar in Sakegawa's Kosugi district, long revered locally as a sacred tree and famous for its resemblance to Totoro from My Neighbor Totoro. It is estimated to be about 1,000 years old.

• Niwatsuki Kannon

  

  Sakegawa, Yamagata · 0233-55-2343

  Temple No. 33, the last of the Mogami 33 Kannon pilgrimage (Tendai sect, Teigetsuzan Gatsuzoin). It traces its origins to the Kannon statue that the lord of Mamuro Castle kept as his guardian Buddha.