YASUGI AREA SIGHTSEEING SPOTS

YASUGI AREA SIGHTSEEING SPOTS

The Yasugi area, once a center of tatara ironmaking and a thriving port town, has long fostered a rich culture of arts, craftsmanship, and tradition. Even today, you can still feel the unique atmosphere of its historical port heritage. Highlights include the Adachi Museum of Art, renowned for having Japan’s best garden, and Kiyomizu-dera Temple, which draws crowds during the cherry blossom and autumn foliage seasons. Just a short trip from Matsue, Yasugi offers a rewarding experience for those looking to explore beyond the usual routes.


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Adachi Museum of Art

It holds modern Japanese paintings, including Taikan Yokoyama, and contemporary Japanese paintings, centered on painters from the Japanese Academy of Fine Arts, ceramic art by Rōsanjin Kitaoji, as well as fascinating works such as children's paintings, lacquer art, and woodcarving. It is also famous for its vast Japanese garden, which boasts 50,000 tsubo. It has received the highest rating in Japan since 2003 in consecutive years in a ranking by the American journal dedicated to Japanese gardens.
You can enjoy a variety of landscapes throughout the four seasons of the garden, and the view from inside the museum feels like a single painting. Not only the works of the masters, but also the beauty of the garden created by nature and people.
There is also a tea room called "Jūraku-an" in the hall, where you can enjoy tea in a lively space. Matcha made in a pure gold tea pot here is said to "invite fortune" and to be effective in extending life ", and has become a popular spot.

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Kiyomizu Temple

In a deep tree stand, at the back of the cobblestone approach, Kiyomizu-dera is located. It was reportedly inaugurated by Emperor Yomyeong Two Years (587) by Sonryu. Buildings other than the main hall were burned to the ground during the Sengoku period when they were met by the war fire of the Battle of Amako and Mohri, but the reconstruction of the Edo period brought them into their present form.
In the precincts, there are many important cultural treasures of the prefecture and the country, including the main hall, and the three-story pagoda, which you can see when you climb the approach, is the only wooden multiple pagoda in the mountain, and is overwhelmed by the beautiful figure of the sokeyaki.
In addition, Shimizu Park, which is said to be a precinct of 50,000 yotsubo, shows beautiful colors through the four seasons, and "Autumn", where the precinct is dyed with crimson, is particularly popular. The restaurant in the park also specializes in the meat of the Terabo tradition and healthy, refined dishes that do not use any fish.

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Anrai Festival Entertainment Hall

The Yasugi Festival Festival was opened in January 2006 in Yasugi, Shimane Prefecture, its birthplace, as a hall of fame for the "Minkyō-Yasugi Festival", which is familiar with singing throughout the country. The hall, which is based on the image of the pier seat, has about 200 seats, and is built with tatami mats so that you can enjoy it in a relaxed manner. Each seat has a contrivance such as a row of chairs, and the second floor is arranged in the style of a rising seat. A song by the Anrai Festival Preservation Society, the dance "Folk Song Anrai Festival" is performed twice a day on Saturday, Sunday and public holidays, and you can enjoy the live Anrai Festival (song and dance). On Sunday, May 26, 6, the Grand Open was decided. The Anrai Festival performances will be two performances a day on Saturday, Sunday and public holidays.

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Wa Steel Museum

It is a museum about the traditional technique "Tatara iron making", which creates "steel" from iron sand using charcoal as fuel. The hall consists of five exhibition rooms, and the first exhibition room is the national important tangible folk cultural property "Libra Fuigo" and various iron-making tools, how steel has been made, it is displayed in an easy-to-understand manner while following the history.
The second exhibition room features a flame-blowing robot, while the third exhibition room provides a model and footage of the transition of the port and the port of Yasugi, which flourished as an iron-loading port.
There is also a special exhibition room that displays the research materials of Dr. Kuniichi Tara, a native of Shimane Prefecture and named "Wajin" with numerous achievements in metallurgical research, and a special exhibition room that holds planned exhibitions every season.
In addition, many visitors come to Japan's premier general museum of iron culture, including the Hi-Vision Theater, which introduces a vivid image of the operation of Hippo Tata, which you can't usually see, and a full-fledged voice.

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Kanō Museum of Art

On display are works by artists, Kanon Guan Bud, who boasts a local area, and writers from local Hirose-cho Fube, as well as works by people who have been designated as more important intangible cultural property than Okayama Prefecture, related to the owner of the house, and antiquities by potters of the Momoyama period.
It also displays the works of Takezao Ono and Tokuson Ikeda, both painters from Okayama Prefecture and recipients of the Order of Culture. It also displays famous potters and dozens of tea-oyu name bowls.
In the annex "Guan Bukan", there is an exhibition of works by Kanō Guan Buto, as well as a service of matcha. The museum goods corner has a complete collection of pottery and paintings, as well as original goods such as postcards and puzzles that you can enjoy your work close by.
The museum is located in a beautiful natural environment where the clear stream flows in front of you and the flowers of the four seasons are in full bloom, and the museum is attractive with a group of lively and free-spirited inscriptions with the theme of "exchange of culture through art."

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Site of Gassan Tomita Castle

Located on the right bank of the Iinari River, Gassan (at an altitude of 184m) was built a long time ago by the onjō and Gassan Tomita castles of the successive Amagi clan, who ruled the 11 provinces of Sanyo and Sanyo. At that time, it was famous as one of the most impregnable castles in the world during the Sengoku period due to its design that made use of the terrain, but it finally fell before the repeated onslaught of Mr. Mohri, and now there is only a small memory of that time.
Kannan (Kannan) It is also famous as the castle where Shisuke Yamanaka was told as a warlordship of sorrow to endure hardship, and his palace remains, among others. In addition to his statue, there is a memorial tower, stone walls and cobblestone antiquities that remain throughout, and you can feel the image of that time. In 1934, it was designated as a National Historic Site, and in 2006, it was also selected as the "100 Japanese Great Castles". In the spring, the "Taikonodan" (Taikonodan) ", where drums were placed to signal the coming of time and enemies, is also a place where many cherry blossoms bloom.

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Gegege's Wife's Hometown Otsuka

The town of Otsuka attracted attention from all over the country due to the "Gegege no Wife" effect, which was made into a TV drama and into a movie and caused a whirlwind.
The authors of "Gegege no Kitaro", Shigeru Mizuki and Mr. Fueda, were arranged at Mr. Fueda's birthplace and married five days later. At the place where the two met fatefully and connected, a "bridge stone" is set up as a symbol of the couple's harmony, and by putting in and connecting with important people through the holes on both sides, the couple's harmony, health longevity, The best couple's wishes are fulfilled, it has become a curb spot.
■ Address… Otsuka-cho, Yasugi-shi, Shimane


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