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Ashikaga / Sano / Tochigi

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Soshuji Temple (Sanoyakuyoke-daishi)

3.5

142 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Tochigi Pref. Sanoshi Kanaikamichou 2233

Sanoyakuyoke-daishi is the popular name of this Tendai Buddhist temple in Sano City, Tochigi Prefecture. The name was made famous via TV commercials. A protective statue of the priest Ryogen is installed, so the temple has become associated with warding off misfortune. It’s one of the three main Tendai temples of the Kanto region for improving your luck, so every New Year’s Day people pour in for Hatsumode, the first prayers of the New Year.

佐野に行った帰りに立ち寄りました。次々に人が参拝にやってきます。おみくじの自動販売機があって子供たちも楽しんでひいていました。いつでも稼働している感じが賑やかでいいですねお祓いをしてもらっている人もいました。聞いているだけで心鎮まります。
Ashikaga Orihime Shrine

4.0

124 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Tochigi Ashikaga-shi Nishinomiya Cho 3889

"This Shinto shrine is sung of in the ""Ashikaga Ondo,"" a song about the local area: ""If you come to Ashikaga / Look for Orihime's red shrine / Clatter-thump-thump / Clatter-thump / Ashikaga, town of pictures / Town of machinery."" Boasting history and traditions stretching back 1,300 years, the shrine is seen as the guardian shrine of the textile town of Ashikaga. The current main shrine building, which celebrated its 80th anniversary in 2017, was rebuilt in 1937 after its predecessor was destroyed in a fire in 1880. From the crimson-lacquered shrine, visitors can get a sweeping view of the Kanto Plain. In 2014, the shrine was designated a Lover's Sanctuary and was also selected for inclusion in the Japan Nightscape Heritage list."

この神社の名物は、２百十余段の参道階段。カップルで上ると別れるという変わった縁結びの神社。鍵に二人の名前を書き、神社につるし、鍵は持ち帰ることもできます。
Bannaji Temple

4.0

153 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Tochigi Pref. Ashikagashi Ietomichou 2220

This Buddhist temple in Ashikaga City, Tochigi Prefecture, was founded by Ashikaga Yoshikane in 1196. A Shingon sect Dainichi school temple the principle object of worship is Dainichi-Nyorai. The main hall was declared an Important Cultural Property in 1950 and was declared a National Treasure in 2013. The temple is a great place to see the sakura cherry blossoms in the spring and yellow gingko leaves in the fall.

Being an ancient samurai castle this is a true marvel of Japanese culture and heritage. Beautiful and tranquil.
Ichigo no Sato Farm (Strawberry Farm)

4.0

51 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Tochigi Pref. Oyamashi Okawashima 408

At this visitor’s farm, located in Oyama City, Tochigi Prefecture, between the months of December and the end of May, one can enjoy picking Skyberry and Tochiotome strawberries, as well as seasonal fruits such as cherries, blueberries, peaches, and grapes. Located on the same grounds is Berry Berry Marché, a gourmet complex housing a buffet restaurant, a cafe, and confectionary shop.

4月29日昭和の日に、ツアーでスカイベリー狩りに参加。ショウジョウハエ？何しろ小虫の大群。いたんだいちごをそのまま放置してあるので、子虫の温床になり、さらには真っ黒になっているものまであった。たぶんカビ。昨日今日手入れしていないと言うわけではなく、ほぼ手入れしていないと言う感じ。ハウスだから雨の心配は無いが、畝にも水たまりがあり滑って危険だった。4月の末のいちご狩り、味は推して知るべしだが、施設...
Coco Farm & Winery

4.0

81 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Tochigi Pref. Ashikagashi Tajimachou 611

This winery is located in Ashikaga City, Tochigi Prefecture, complete with a vineyard, a brewery, a wine shop and restaurant. The winery got its start in 1958 when a middle school teacher and his students started a grape farm in the forest. Currently, it brews high-quality wine that has even been used at dinners for major summits. You can buy some wine at the shop, or try lunch with wine while looking out over the vineyard.

Lovely range of wines and reasonable prices and other products such as local cheeses and hams. I only stopped there for an hour or so to pick a few bottles of Japanese wine as I was passing through...
Roadside Station Mibu

3.5

34 Reviews

Transportation

Tochigi Pref. Shimotsugagunmibumachi Kuniya 1870-2

A roadside station in Shimotsuga County, Tochigi Prefecture. Along with offering tourist information they also sell local vegetables and souvenirs and there's a restaurant making this a great place to refresh yourself when out on a drive. From a large field and greenspace, to a park and toy museum, there are facilities for everyone from children to adults to enjoy. A popular item for sale is soft serve ice cream made with Tochigi's famous lemon-milk.

おもちゃのまち駅から暫くあるいてわんぱく公園に行き、お昼になったなで近くにあった道の駅を利用しました。『蘭々亭』でごぼうメンチカツ定食を食べました。ごぼうの食感もあり美味しかったです◯
Ohirasan Shrine

4.0

42 Reviews

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Tochigi Pref. Tochigishi Hiraichou 659

This shrine is in Tochigi City, Tochigi Prefecture. Located at the summit of Mt. Ohira, the shrine was founded by Ennin in 827. The stairs leading to the temple have almost 1,000 steps and a variety of hydrangea lining the way has led to it also being called Hydrangea Hill. The shrine is known as a famous place to view the sakura cherry blossoms in the spring and you can enjoy the Ohirasan Tochigi Sakura Festival while looking over the Kanto Plain.

大平山桜まつりの途中に行きました。大平山遊覧道路沿いの無料駐車場に駐車し、真っ直ぐには戻らず、少し遊覧道路を歩いて赤い随神門から急な石段を登って本殿へ行きました。石段の両側には紫陽花が植えられていて、紫陽花が咲く時期も良さそうでしたが、行った時には随神門からすぐ下の椿の大輪の花がとても綺麗でした。折からの好天で本殿からの景色も良く、登った甲斐がありました。参拝後は謙信平の方へ下りました。
Mibumachi Toy Museum

4.0

26 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Tochigi Pref. Shimotsugagunmibumachi Kuniya 2300

"This toy museum is located in the Mibu-Machi Comprehensive Park, and has a cute appearance reminiscent of a medieval castle. The museum houses play areas with slides and play equipment with net, etc. and also displays approximately 9,000 valuable toys, including those made of tin plate. You will also find a corner where you can actually play with toys, a corner where you can create your own original ""Licca-chan"" doll, and a ""Railway Model Room"" with one of the largest dioramas in the north Kanto region, making this museum a place where both adults and children can have great fun all day long."

お天気悪く家で過ごしたくない日は、車を走らせてでも来る価値有り！プラレールやシルバニアなど子供が喜ぶおもちゃが時間無制限で使いたい放題！室内型アスレチックや乳幼児が周りを気にせず遊べるフロアもあり一日中いても全く飽きない施設です！
Sano Tourist Farm Agritown

4.0

28 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Tochigi Pref. Sanoshi Ueshimochou 802-4

Come pick seasonal fruits such as strawberries, blueberries, and peaches at this sightseeing farm. There's also a produce shop on site that sells freshly picked fruit and vegetables as well as a cafe area and farm-style restaurant. During the summer they also make a very popular sunflower maze from a field of 70,000 sunflowers.

いちごの食べ放題もそろそろ終わりですね。子供連れの家族が多く見られました。ジェラートを頬張るのはカップルの方達があちこちにいます。みんなが楽しめるファーマーズマーケットです。季節的なのか植物は少なかったです。デコポンは甘酸っぱく美味しかったです。
Roadside Station Domannaka Tanuma

Transportation

Tochigi Pref. Sanoshi Yoshimizuchou 366-2

This roadside station’s name derives from its location at the center of the Japanese archipelago. It hosts a farm stand selling a variety of products, fresh local vegetables, and brand rice. It’s also well equipped with facilities like a food court for casual dining, as well as a foot bath and a restaurant. Popular items include fried potatoes and Sano ramen noodles, a delicious local specialty. Visitors pour in throughout the year for its various events, including a summertime haunted house and an illuminated garden in winter.
Kurita Museum

4.0

33 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Tochigi Pref. Ashikagashi Komabachou 1542

This world leading porcelain art museum's collection includes works by Imari, Nabeshima, and Kakiemon and is surrounded by 100,000 square meters of natural greenery. The main building is characterized by its white plaster walls and with over 400 exhibits you can see their entire collection on display. There's also the history hall with its porcelain tiled walls, which has a showroom of large porcelain pots by Imari and an observation deck on the top-most floor.

Nice and beautiful museum. Lots of porcelaine and informative. However, not suitable if you are going in for more knowledge on porcelaine. They have great pieces and history on it. But no translation...
Tochigi Dashi Kaikan

3.5

35 Reviews

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Tochigi Tochigi-shi Yorozucho 3-23

This museum, which opened in 1995, exhibits and preserves festival floats, a prefecturally designated tangible cultural asset. Three floats are always on display and are regularly rotated. The museum recreates the semi-annual Tochigi Autumn Festival by combining the real floats that are on display with digital audio and video, allowing visitors to experience the intensity of the festival and the beauty of its festival floats.

More than half of Tochigis traditional festival floats are on display here, which enables visitors to see them even though the festival is only held in November of even-numbered years. The overview...
Taihei Kikan

4.0

28 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Tochigi Pref. Ashikagashi Isechou 3-6-4

A tourist information facility in Ashikaga City, Tochigi Prefecture. Built to commemorate the 1991 broadcasting of the Taiheiki historical drama, here you can find information about Ashikaga as well as local souvenirs for sale. Along with regional sweets, original goods, and finished goods for sale you can also rent bicycles.

足利学校、鑁阿寺に近い、無料駐車場のあるみやげもの店。平日でしたので土日の混みぐわいはわかりませんが、かなり、駐車できます。
Ashikaga Information and Communication Space

3.5

21 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Tochigi Ashikaga-shi Tori 1-2673-1

This facility was established to familiarize visitors with Ashikaga's history and culture, and to contribute to the liveliness of the city area and the revitalization of the community. The building, renovated in 2016, offers exhibition and rest areas, conference rooms, and a variety of tourist information. Visitors can try on Ashikaga Meisen, silk textiles that predominated the late Taisho (1912-1916) through early Showa (1926-1989) periods, and enjoy walking around town dressed in kimono or armor.

こちらは足利の歴史や文化、自然に親しみ、楽しみ、そして学んでいただく施設として、平成15年3月にオープンしたそうです。無料で入場でき、展示物としては機織り機が素晴らしかったです。また、大正末期から昭和初期にかけて一世を風靡した「足利銘仙」を中心とした着物の着付け体験できます。
Yokoyama Kyodokan

4.0

18 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Tochigi Tochigi-shi Irifunecho 2-16

This local culture hall contains exhibits concerning the Yokoyama family, a wealthy Meiji period merchant family. The right half of the facility was once used as a hemp wholesale store, while the left half was used as a bank, and inside visitors can see things such as a reception area restored to look as it did when it was in use. Kura storehouses built of Fukaiwa stone from Kanuma stand on either side of the facility's stone main building, which has a 7.2-meter-wide frontage and which is nine meters deep. The facility's establishment areas, residence area, storehouses, and Western-style building have been designated a Tangible Cultural Property by the Agency for Cultural Affairs. In 2018, a tourism information area, multilingual video, and multilingual informational panels were added to the facility, with visitors noting this increases ease of use and understanding for international tourists.

こちらが《国登録有形文化財》であることから訪問しました。店舗[右側：麻苧（あさお）問屋、左側：銀行]の左右に石造蔵（深岩石、鹿沼市産、内部の説明文には大谷石より水に強く、うずま川の氾濫が多いことから使用されたとのことです）を持つ栃木市にある数多い蔵の中でも珍しい様式になっている上に庭園内に外観が洋風（内部は和風装飾、但し天井は洋風、添付写真参照）の離れがあり 4月21日訪問時 [桃の...
Suga Shrine

4.0

18 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Tochigi Oyama-shi Miyamotocho 1-2-4

This shrine was founded in 940 with the transfer and enshrinement of a division of the tutelary deity of Kyoto's Gion Shrine (now called Yasaka Shrine). Its Daidai Okagurasai festival held in early April and its Gion Matsuri festival held from July 14 to 21 each year are well known. On the third Sunday of July, 25 portable shrines including one massive one that weighs in at two tons are carried through the city.

徳川家康が「上杉を討つか、石田を討つか」を決した「小山評定」の舞台となった本陣跡があります。神社の創建は10世紀、藤原秀衡によるものであり歴史を見つめてきた社です。長い参道を過ぎると時節柄茅の輪くぐりがありました。広い境内はゆったりとしていて落ち着いてお参りできました。
Aguri no Sato Sightseeing Farm

4.0

8 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Tochigi Pref. Tochigishi Otsukamachi 128-1

Have fun picking Tochiotome and Tochihime strawberries at this fruit farm. Along with picking fruit you can make Christmas cakes with your chosen strawberries or, make miso during the winter months. You can pick and eat all the strawberries you'd like in a 30-minute period but please be aware that if you'd like to pick the Tochihime strawberries advance reservation is required.

急にいちご狩りに行きたい！っと思ってさがしたのがココ予約制でないので行きやすいし土曜日の12時に着きましたが大きなハウスが沢山あり案内されたハウスは私達家族だけで貸し切り状態で良かったです。
Kuzu Fossil Museum

4.0

16 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Tochigi Sano-shi Kuzuu Higashi 1-11-15

This fossil museum presents fossils discovered in Sano City and provides information on the types of minerals and wildlife in the area. Exhibits include a type of limestone found in the Kuzu area called Nabeyama limestone, examples of limestone from across the country, and animal fossils found in limestone caves and fissures. Limestone is widely found in the Kuzu region, and the area is also thought to have once been a habitat for elephants, rhinoceroses, and other large animals. The Japanese rhinoceros (Dicerorhinus nipponicus) skeleton displayed in the center of the first floor is the only one which has been found anywhere in Japan that is almost completely intact. Other exhibits include limestone fossils of Fusulinida and sea lilies which lived during the distant Permian period.

お勧めの文化施設です。特に化石や古代に興味を持つ人、そして子供には十分に楽しめる施設で、しかも無料です。葛生は石灰岩の街でした。たくさんの化石や鍾乳洞があって、ゾウやサイ、シカ、クマ他の動物化石が発見されています。とてもコンパクトですが、内容も充実しており、見ごたえもあります。市内、県内、そして県外の方々も楽しめますよ。
Watarase Reservoir

Travel / Tourism

Fujioka cho, Tochigi-shi, Tochigi prefecture

Watarase, the nation’s largest reservoir, is nestled within four prefectures: Tochigi, Gunma, Saitama, and Ibaraki. This reservoir was constructed in order to detoxify the mineral poisons, by deposition, flowing out of the old copper mines of Ashio. Encircled by reed grasses, the whole area is a haven for foxes, badgers, wild birds, insects, and other wildlife. Visitors enjoy cycling, fishing, water sports, bird watching, and other activities. The Watarase Reservoir was registered in the Ramsar Convention in 2012.
Iwashita New Ginger Museum

Travel / Tourism

Tochigi Pref. Tochigishi Honchou 1-25

The New Ginger Museum, is designed around the pickled ginger, which is a household brand. Entrance is free. The museum houses a corner introducing the history of new ginger, and a Ginger Shrine said to endear married and courting couples to each other, as well as various creative recipes for using new ginger. The annexed cafe, as well as the new ginger souvenirs are also popular.

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Tochigi Areas

Most visits to Tochigi revolve around Nikko, a small city home to the spectacular, lavishly decorated Toshogu Shrine and Nikko National Park with its mountains, lakes, waterfalls, onsen, and wild monkeys. Neighboring Oku-Nikko is an extension of the fantastic scenery famous for its autumn leaves, while Tochigi’s capital, Utsunomiya, is the only place in the world where you can find oya stone beautifully exhibited in temples and the Oya History Museum.