History / Culture / Tour Spots in Mito / Kasama Area
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- Kasama Inari Jinja
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4.0141 Reviews - Travel / Tourism
- Ibaraki Pref. Kasamashi Kasama 1
- Located in Kasama City, Ibaraki Prefecture, this shrine has long been the object of adoration for the god of rich harvest and mercantile success. Considered to be one of Japan’s Top Three Inari Shrines, it hosts 3.5 million visitors every year, and is one of the prefecture’s best spots for New Year’s worship. A number of religious ceremonies like yabusame and bugaku are performed during the “Kasama Chrysanthemum Festival” held in autumn.
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I was here with a cruise ship shore excursion April 28. This wa a restful place to be after the crowds and noise of other venues during Golden Week, the time of the Emperor abdication/ coronation...
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- Art Tower Mito
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4.0102 Reviews - Leisure / Hobbies
- Ibaraki Pref. Mitoshi Gokenchou 1-6-8
- The Art Tower Mito is a joint art facility located about 10 minutes by car from Mito Station. It has an art museum with mainly modern art exhibits, a concert hall complete with pipe organ, and a stage for musicals and traditional arts like rakugo. Uniquely composed of equilateral triangular panels, the Symbol Tower features a lookout deck with a view of Mito City and vicinity. You can get a tour of the interior (includes the tower) even as an individual.
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We were pleased to see the tower, and the whole art centre complex, but it was very quiet with not a lot going on. The tower was closed, as was the contemporary art gallery. The foyer with the...
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- Tokiwa Jinja Shrine
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3.5119 Reviews - Travel / Tourism
- Ibaraki Pref. Mitoshi Tokiwachou 1-3-1
- "A Shinto shrine dedicated to Tokugawa Mitsukuni, the second lord of Mito Domain and star character in the fictionalized popular historical television drama ""Mito Komon;"" and Tokugawa Nariaki, the ninth lord of Mito Domain and a man considered one of the great intelligences of the closing days of the Edo period. The origins of the shrine date back to a small lay ancestral hall built on the grounds of Kairakuen Park in the early Meiji period by parishioners who idolized the two lords. Exhibits on Mitogaku, a school Japanese history and Shinto studies which emerged in Mito domain; as well as articles which belonged to Mitsukuni and Nariaki; calligraphy by the two men; and other historical items are displayed in the Giretsukan museum on the shrine's grounds."
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Tokiwa Shrine is located in Mito. It is easy to go from Mito Station. The shrine was built in Meiji era and is dedicated to Mito -Koumon. There are four kinds of shrines on the grounds in addition...
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- Kasama Nichido Museum of Art
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4.552 Reviews - Leisure / Hobbies
- Ibaraki Pref. Kasamashi Kasama 978-4
- "An art museum located a three-minute walk from the ""Nichido Bijutsukan Iriguchi"" bus stop on the Kasama Loop bus in Kasama City, Ibaraki Prefecture. The museum's large collection of artwork by domestic and international artists includes Renoir's ""Girl at the Fountain"" and ""Venus Victorious,"" Ryusei Kishida's ""Maruyama-kun,"" and Hiroshi Okutani's ""Fusei."" In addition to the museum's standing exhibition of French artists and a special exhibition hall, the museum has more unique facilities, such as an outdoor sculpture garden, and a palette exhibition which presents palettes used by various painters."
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板谷波山が展示されていた茨城陶芸美術館のついでに見学しました。ウォーホルのC夫人像が面白いと思いました。新美術館で開催されたキミコパワーズ夫妻のコレクション展を見ていたのでC夫人像を見た時ウォーホルが随分塗っている、と思いました。珍しいものを見ました。
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- Ibaraki Prefectural Archives and Museum
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4.058 Reviews - Leisure / Hobbies
- Ibaraki Pref. Mitoshi Midorichou 2-1-15
- "A facility which serves as both an archive and museum located a two-minute walk from the ""Rekishikan Kairakuen Iriguchi"" bus stop on the bus leaving from Mito Station on the JR Joban Line. The facility presents the results of research into materials and artefacts connected to the history of Ibaraki. The facility's spacious grounds also enclose an Edo period farmhouse and Meiji period Western-style school house which were dismantled and moved here. The facility's standing exhibit focuses on the history of Ibaraki. Easy to understand videos, graphic panels, and other exhibits present the prehistoric, ancient, near-modern, and modern history periods of the prefecture. The facility also holds lectures and activities for elementary and junior high school aged children."
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尊皇攘夷の先駆の藩、水戸藩の詳しい資料があるかなと思い来ましたが、市販の歴史書の方が詳しいですね。どちらかというと明治以降や石器時代の方が広くスペースを取っているようです。更にほとんどが撮影禁止です。少し残念ですね。
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- Ibaraki Ceramic Art Museum
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4.027 Reviews - Leisure / Hobbies
- Ibaraki Pref. Kasamashi Kasama 2345 Kasama Art Forest Park
- "A prefectural art museum located inside Kasama Geijutsunomori Park a five-minute drive from JR Kasama Station. Dedicated to the concepts of ""excitement,"" ""understanding,"" and ""fun,"" the museum presents the history and techniques of Kasama ware. The museum's standing exhibition consists of pieces by recipients of the Order of Culture and Living National Treasures. The museum also displays famous pieces by potters closely connected to Ibaraki Prefecture in addition to holding special exhibitions of primarily pottery from within the prefecture and beyond. Bright and with a quiet atmosphere, the museum also has a shop and restaurant, making it easy to visitors to take their time, have fun, and enjoy the works of ceramic art on display."
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見学者は息を凝らして板谷波山の作品を見つめていました。じっと佇み作品に目を凝らして用意に動こうとしません。こういう雰囲気の展示会は稀だと思います。途中で集中力を解放しようと休憩しました。圧巻の展示だったと思いますし見終えて心地よい疲れを感じました。 此処へは上野8時半の特急に乗り友部駅から笠間周遊バスで来ました。上野駅で特急券を販売機で買いましたが下車駅の友部駅が表示されないので石岡まで買い友部駅...
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- Hitachinokuni Izumo Taisha Shrine
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- Ibaraki Pref. Kasamashi Fukuhara 2006
- About a seven-minute walk from Fukuhara Station on the JR Mito Line, Hitachinokuni Izumo Taisha is a shrine for worshipping mainly the Okuninushi, dedicated in 1992. There is the main hall where the presiding god sits in repose, as well as the Yakushin Shrine for medical needs and Ryujya Shrine for protection from water. The grounds include multiple cemeteries—even a pet cemetery—for religious and funeral ceremonies, as well as a restaurant serving Inaniwa udon, a glass studio— “Izumokan,” and an art gallery— “Sakurabayashi-kan.”
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- Shunpu Banri-so
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4.019 Reviews - Travel / Tourism
- Ibaraki Kasama-shi Shimoichige Art no Mura
- An old Japanese home located a 20-minute drive from the Iwama Interchange. The thatch roof home was once the residence of Rosanjin, an artist active from the Meiji through the Showa periods. The home was moved here from Kita-Kamakura in 1965. The interior of the home is kept in the same state it looked when Rosanjin lived here. Furniture created by the artist and other articles which belonged to him are also on display. As a special event, tea ceremonies are held in the Mukyoan teahouse designed by Rosanjin once to twice a year. Visitors can also enjoy matcha powdered green tea and sweets like anmitsu sweet beans and fruit in syrup while taking in flowering cherry and plum trees, fall foliage, and other seasonal scenery of a rock garden from the Shunpuan teahouse.
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陶芸家北大路魯山人がかつて住んでいた古民家を昭和40年に鎌倉から移築し笠間日動画廊の分館として公開されている。内部は大広間とそれに続く魯山人の作品を展示した部屋、馬屋を改造した洋間、風呂場と厠、そして本来は独立していた茶室「夢境庵」などなど。また茶室から眺められる竜安寺を模したという枯山水の石庭は見事なものだ。その他広い敷地には2つの池もありその1つには庭に配された石組の間から水が流れ落ちている...
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- Toshogu Shrine
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- Ibaraki Pref. Mitoshi Miyamachi 2-5-13
- "A Shinto shrine dedicated to the mighty shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu which was erected in 1621 by Tokugawa Yorifusa, the first lord of Mito Domain. Today, Yorifusa himself is also enshrined here. The shrine owns many precious historical artefacts connected to the Tokugawa clan, including a copper lantern donated by Yorifusa, a temple bell known as the Tokiwayama Jisho which was caste on the order of Tokugawa Mitsukuni, and an ancient horse-drawn tank called the ""Anjinsha"" invented by Tokugawa Nariaki."
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- The Tokugawa Museum
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- Ibaraki Pref. Mitoshi Migawa 1-1215-1
- This museum is located near Senba Park, a 10-minute drive from Mito Station. Along with belongings from Tokugawa Ieyasu other works of art related to the Mito-Tokugawa family, including swords and a war-fan decorated with a pine tree painting, and various historical records are stored. You can also experience a tea-ceremony in the Tokugetsutei tea house, a tea house which had deep ties to the Tokugawa family and which has been relocated here. With reservation you can enjoy the Nariaki Gozen meal on the garden terrace, a contemporary arrangement of a recipe from the Shoku Sai Roku book written by Tokugawa Nariaki, ninth head of the Mito-Tokugawa family.
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- Mito Joshi
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- Ibaraki Mito-shi Sannomaru
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- Kodokan
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- Ibaraki Pref. Mitoshi Sannomaru 1-6-29
- This school, built by the ninth lord of Mito Domain Tokugawa Nariaki in 1841, was once one of the largest domain-sponsored schools in the country. During the Battle of the Kodokan, an internal struggle which occurred in 1868, the majority of the building was destroyed in a fire, but portions of the original facility, including the front gate, Shizendo hall, and reception hall, as well as stone monuments, still stand today. In 2015, the location was designated a Japan Heritage Site by the Agency for Cultural Affairs as part of the Educational Heritage from Early-Modern Japan group of structures. Inside, there is a museum space where visitors can view historical materials and artefacts such as Chinese poetry by esteemed intellectual Yoshida Shoin; and a picture of Tokugawa Yoshinobu, the last shogun of Japan.
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- The Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki
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- Ibaraki Pref. Mitoshi Sembachou Higakubo 666-1
- From Kairakuen, one of the three great gardens of Japan, head to the other side of Senba Lake to find this art museum which opened in October 1988. The museum’s collection of almost 4,000 pieces are displayed according to season and theme and contains works from local Ibaraki artists such as Yokoyama Taikan, Ogawa Usen, and Nakamura Tsune as well as western artists such as Monet and Renoir. On the south side of the grounds you will also find a reconstruction of Mito native Nakamura Tsune’s workshop with belongings and documents on display.
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- Omitama City Minkaen
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- Ibaraki Omitama-shi Shimotamari 1831
- "A historic building in Shimotamari, Omitama City. Built in the middle of the Edo period and moved to its current location, this former village headman's house features a rare floor design known as ""doma-magari.” The hearth and the kamado cooking area have been reconstructed, and mingu folk items to help you understand daily life during that period are on display. Entry is free. The building is available for meetings and classes, too."
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- Giretsukan
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- Ibaraki Mito-shi Tokiwacho 1-3-1
- This museum is located in 1-chome, Tokiwa-cho, Mito City. It can be found within the Tokiwa Shrine, which is where the second lord of the Mito Domain, Tokugawa Mitsukuni, and Nariaki, the ninth lord, are enshrined. The museum has exhibits of historical materials from the Edo period to the Meiji period relating to the Mito Domain, such as a draft manuscript called The Great History of Japan, which is a compilation of historical texts that was started by Mitsukuni, and Taikyoku, which is a cannon that was created by order of Nariaki.
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- Kobuntei
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- Ibaraki Mito-shi Tokiwacho 1-3-3
- A structure in Kairakuen, located on the grounds of Tokiwa-jinja Shrine in front of Kairakuen Station in Tokiwa-cho 1-Chome, Mito City. Said to have been designed by Tokugawa Nariaki, the 9th feudal lord of the Mito domain, it consists of a two-layered three-story wooden main building and a wooden single-story annex. The current building was restored after being destroyed by air raids during World War II. Open to the public, you can enter for a fee and enjoy the view from the third floor Rakujuro as well as the fusuma-e paintings on the sliding doors. A formal tea gathering is held once a month.
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- Gokoku Shrine
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4.028 Reviews - Travel / Tourism
- Ibaraki Mito-shi Migawa 1-chome 2-1
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市街地から離れた場所にある神社からか、ゆっくりと時間が流れるような空気をまとう神社。休日であっても訪れる人は多くなく、境内を散策しながら静かに時間を過ごすことが出来る。偕楽園内の桜山に位置するからか、春には境内の桜が見頃を迎える。 護国神社の名の通り、幕末から戦時中の戦没者が合祀されており、いくつかの鎮魂碑を見ることが出来る。戦争が終わり既に長い年月が経過し、それらの石碑もどうか長い幾年平和であり...
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- Mito Municipal hall
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- Ibaraki Mito-shi Izumicho 1-7-1
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- Yoshida Shrine
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4.011 Reviews - Travel / Tourism
- Ibaraki Mito Miyauchicho 3193-2
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梅まつり中の偕楽園を訪れる前に参拝しました。 ３月の９時頃でしたので人もおらず、ゆっくり参拝出来ました。 拝殿の手前にご祭神の日本武尊のご神徳がこもった願掛石が。一つ手に取り拝殿に参拝。 また違った季節に訪れたいと思います。
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- Mito Archaeological center (Okushi Kaizuka Fureai Park)
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3.516 Reviews - Travel / Tourism
- Ibaraki Mito-shi Shiogasakicho 1064-1
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各地にある大人（オオヒト、巨人のこと）の伝説を集めた展示がありました。だいだらぼうに上るには館内からあがるのですがなぜか一度肛門部分から出られるようになっています。絶対狙って作っていそうです。最上部まで登ると手の部分から顔をだすことができます。大きい建物は楽しいです。
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Just a stone’s throw from Tokyo, Ibaraki is a coastal prefecture that has mastered juxtapositions, where old shrines meet new scientific discoveries and traditional gardens are frequented by the inventors of some of the newest technology. Head to Mito City's Kairakuen - one of Japan's Three Great Gardens - in spring to experience the cellestial blooming of fantastic cherry blossoms at the annual sakura festival.
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