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三重県 · Shrines & temples

Yamatohime no Miya

伊勢市伊勢志摩

It enshrines Yamatohime-no-Mikoto, who chose where Ise Jingu would stand.

三重県 · Shrines & temples

Kazahinomi no Miya

伊勢市伊勢志摩

It governs wind and rain. It was raised to the rank of miya for having sent the divine wind against the Mongol invasions.

三重県 · Shrines & temples

Mitakedera

菰野町北勢

At the foot of Mount Gozaisho. It was once a great temple with warrior monks of its own.

三重県 · Shrines & temples

Kuwana Sosha

桑名市北勢

The Ishidori festival is called the noisiest in Japan. UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage.

三重県 · Shrines & temples

Tsubaki Nakato Jinja

鈴鹿市北勢

One of the shrines claiming to be first of Ise Province.

三重県 · Shrines & temples

Shindaibutsuji

伊賀市伊賀

Founded by Chogen, who rebuilt Todaiji. It preserves a Nyorai figure by Kaikei.

三重県 · Shrines & temples

Mirokuji

名張市伊賀

An old temple of Iga.

三重県 · Shrines & temples

Tengurasan

尾鷲市東紀州

A great rock looking down on the Kumano Kodo.

三重県 · Shrines & temples

Jirozaka

紀北町東紀州

A pass on the Iseji route of the Kumano Kodo. Crossing the old provincial border was the hardest stretch.

三重県 · Shrines & temples

Keishoji

松阪市中勢

It claims to be the first Kannon of warding off misfortune in Japan. The Hatsuuma festival fills it with people.

三重県 · Tourism

Onigajo

熊野市東紀州

A great rock wall cut by the waves. Part of the Kumano Kodo World Heritage site.

三重県 · Tourism

Okage Yokocho

伊勢市伊勢志摩

Before the gate of the Inner Shrine. The streets of the Edo and Meiji eras have been recreated.

三重県 · Tourism

Ago Bay

志摩市伊勢志摩

Pearl rafts float on a rias coast. This is the sea where Mikimoto Kokichi first succeeded in culturing pearls.

三重県 · Tourism

Meoto Iwa

伊勢市伊勢志摩

Around the summer solstice the sun rises between the two rocks.

三重県 · Tourism

Nabana no Sato

桑名市北勢

One of the largest illumination displays in Japan, with a begonia garden alongside.

三重県 · Tourism

Iga Ninja Museum

伊賀市伊賀

A ninja house with revolving walls and hidden doors, moved here and rebuilt.

三重県 · Tourism

Matsusaka Beef

松阪市中勢

Only virgin Japanese Black cattle qualify. It is called the art of meat.

三重県 · Tourism

Ise Kaido

松阪市ほか中勢

The road of the Ise pilgrimage. There was an age when several million people a year walked it.

三重県 · Tourism

Kumano Fireworks

熊野市東紀州

Shells burst against the rock wall of Onigajo in what is called the sea self-detonation. It has run for 300 years.

三重県 · Tourism

Ama Hut

鳥羽市伊勢志摩

Huts where the free-diving ama warm themselves. More ama remain here than anywhere in Japan.

三重県 · Tourism

Akame Falls

名張市伊賀

A place of shugendo practice. Giant salamanders live here.

三重県 · Tourism

Suzuka Circuit

鈴鹿市北勢

The first full-scale racing circuit in Japan, with a figure-of-eight course that crosses over itself.

三重県 · Tourism

Banko Ware

四日市市北勢

Purple-clay teapots. Most of the clay pots made in Japan come from here.

三重県 · Art & museums

Mie Prefectural Art Museum

津市中勢

Systematic in Soga Shohaku, the eccentric Edo ink painter who stayed long in this province and left his work behind.