History / Culture / Tour Spots in Yamanashi Area

Area

Yamanashi
- Japan
- Hokkaido / Tohoku
  
  Hokkaido
  
  Aomori
  
  Iwate
  
  Miyagi
  
  Akita
  
  Yamagata
  
  Fukushima
- Kanto
  
  Ibaraki
  
  Tochigi
  
  Gunma
  
  Saitama
  
  Chiba
  
  Tokyo
  
  Kanagawa
- Koshinetsu / Hokuriku
  
  Niigata
  
  Toyama
  
  Ishikawa
  
  Fukui
  
  Yamanashi
  
  Nagano
- Tokai
  
  Gifu
  
  Shizuoka
  
  Aichi
  
  Mie
- Kinki
  
  Shiga
  
  Kyoto
  
  Osaka
  
  Hyogo
  
  Nara
  
  Wakayama
- Chugoku
  
  Tottori
  
  Shimane
  
  Okayama
  
  Hiroshima
  
  Yamaguchi
- Shikoku
  
  Tokushima
  
  Kagawa
  
  Ehime
  
  Kochi
- Kyushu / Okinawa
  
  Fukuoka
  
  Saga
  
  Nagasaki
  
  Kumamoto
  
  Oita
  
  Miyazaki
  
  Kagoshima
  
  Okinawa

Category

Travel / Tourism

History / Culture / Tour

Kofu Fujimura Memorial Museum

3.0

4 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Yamanashi Kofu Kitaguchi 2-2-1 Kofu Sta. Kitaguchi Hiroba

This historic building in Yocchabare Plaza at JR Kofu Station's North Exit is located in Kitaguchi 2-Chome, Kofu City. It was constructed in 1875 as the Mutsuzawa school building in Kamezawa, Kai City. After being designated as an Important Cultural Property of Japan in 1967, the building was moved to its current location in 2010 and is currently used as a cultural exchange guidance facility.

甲府駅北口前にあるこの建物は、国の重要文化財に指定されています。西洋風の建築を、当時の日本の建築技術で再現された建築様式で、偽西洋建築と呼ばれています。明治時代の日本の建築技術を知る貴重な建物です。建物内は無料で自由に見学できます。ギャラリーとして使われている箇所やまた当時の学校の様子も再現されている箇所もあります。
Former Ando Residence

4.0

8 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Yamanashi Minami-Alps-shi Nishinango 4302

"This farmer's residence built in 1709 is located about a 30-minute walk from the Furuichiba Bus Stop or the Ichigenjaya Bus Stop. The Ando family is an old family that served as the chiefs of Nishinago Village for generations. The home is an incredibly valuable building that offers insights into the life of wealthy farmers in the late Edo Period. The main building, which features a thatched Irimoya-style roof, has been preserved just as it was centuries ago. It as well as the front gate, earthen storehouse, tearoom, central gate, and wooden fence have all been designated as national Important Cultural Properties. Yokosawa-bina, a style of hina doll unique to Yamanashi, are displayed with other hina doll collection at the residence during the ""Ando-ke Jutaku Hinamatsuri (Doll Festival)"" held there each spring."

I visited the Ando Residence in May 2017. It is now owned by Yamanashi Prefecture and open to the public. Seasonal events are held here and we went to see the May boys day celebration props from the...
Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Literature

5.0

1 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Yamanashi Kofu-shi Kugawa 1-5-35

10月位に山梨のFMを聞いていたら、山梨県立文学館にて「まるごと林真理子展(9/11〜11/23)を行うので、皆様来て下さいね。」と真理子様がゲストとして、言ってました。興味があったので、今回初めて文学館を訪れました。文学館は山梨県立美術館の真向かいにあります。「るんるん買っておうちに帰ろう」から「大河ドラマ西郷どん」など、エッセイから歴史小説、トレンディドラマになった小説などなど様々な内容を...
Country of Grape Museum/Culture Center

4.0

7 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Yamanashi Koshu-shi Katsunumacho Shimoiwasaki 1034-1

This museum is located in the Shimoiwasaki area of Katsunuma-cho, Koshu City. It exhibits related materials and life-size wax figures concerning the history of grape cultivation and wine making in Katsunuma. In addition, it holds special exhibitions on grapes and wine. The Koshu City Katsunuma library is next to it.

勝沼で一番重要なスポットです。蝋人形も迫力あり。ここでぶどう栽培の起源を知り、天皇から賜ったという帽子の絵も見られます。ここで色々見ておかないと、後でワイナリー巡っても石像の意味が理解できず勿体ないですね。観光でまず一番最初に訪れたい場所です。しかも無料(笑)
Takeda Castle Ruins Museum (Shingen Museum)

3.0

1 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Yamanashi Kofu-shi Ote 3-1-14

武田神社の入口近くにある駐車場の傍にある通称「信玄ミュージアム」です。武田信玄や甲斐の国の歴史や地理について、解説書だけでなくビデオ等も使って分かり易く情報提供されていました。武田神社や恵林寺等を訪問する前に勉強していくと良いかもしれません。
Unpoji Temple

2.5

7 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Yamanashi Pref. Koushushi Enzankamihagihara 2678

"To reach Unpoji Temple, visitors should take the bus bound for Daibosatsu Tozanguchi from Enzan Station on the JR Chuo Line in the city of Koshu, Yamanashi Prefecture. A five-minute walk will bring them to Unpoji, a temple of the Rinzai sect of Buddhism. It was founded in 745 by the monk Gyoki. It was destroyed by fire in the middle of the 16th century, but the main building and the lecture hall were rebuilt in 1558. At present, the main building, library, and Nio Gate are designated as Important Cultural Properties. Among the historical treasures in its possession are the ""Sun Tzu"" battle flag of the Takeda clan, a clan that was affiliated with this temple, and the regimental flags. The ""Mine no Sakura"" cherry tree in front of the Treasure Hall was planted about 700 years ago and has been designated a Natural Monument."

朝、タクシーを飛ばして一人で尋ねました。すがすがしい雰囲気がとても良いと感じました。無人でしたので、本堂に行くと、文化財を大切に、土足厳禁とありました。お堂に上がるまでの階段は、お堂とは連結しておらず、風雨にさらされぼろぼろで（厚い木の板でしたが）また、磨かれて奇麗にされ、大事にされている雰囲気もありません。全国の文化財のお寺をめぐると、階段は靴のまま上がれるお寺も多く、この寺院も、階段までは上が...
Minami Alps Ashiyasu Sangakukan Museum

3.5

5 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Yamanashi Minami-Alps-shi Ashiyasu Ashikura 1570

This museum dedicated to the subject of mountain culture and nature is located about a 30-minute drive from Shirane Interchange on the Chubu-Odan Expressway. Its missions since opening in 2003 have been discovering, researching, and passing down mountain culture, promoting natural conservation and mountaineering safety, and realizing a variety of exchanges mediated by the mountains. The museum features an area where visitors can watch real time footage of Mt. Kita, an area with a collection of books on the subject of mountains, an area where visitors can sit around a sunken hearth and listen to a storyteller, and more. There is also an area that introduces the local Yamanashi wood used to build the museum.

芦安温泉郷内の宿に宿泊したら、無料券をいただいたので、翌朝行ってみました。施設はとてもきれいで広い。南アルプスについてのビデオ上映もやっていたり、山で命を落とした方の特集をしていたり。登山に必要な道具が昔-現代にかけて展示してあり、登山の知識や歴史がよくわかり、南アルプスの地形の大きな模型があるので、登山道など立体的でわかり易い。地図やパンフレットも無料でもらえる。
Yamanashi Prefectural Science Center

Leisure / Hobbies

Yamanashi Pref. Koufushi Atagomachi 358-1

The science museum located in Kofu City, Yamanashi Prefecture is also known as the science ship due to its unique ship-shaped building. The museum features a planetarium, a large telescope, various exhibit halls, and more, making it a fun and easy place to learn about science and space. The museum's lookout terrace offers a view of the entire Kofu Basin. You can even see Mt. Fuji on clear days.
Shinpu Castle Ruins

Travel / Tourism

Yamanashi Pref. Nirasakishi Nakadamachi Nakajou

These castle ruins in now Nakada-machi, Nirasaki City, were the site of the Takeda clan's last castle. This culmination of the Koshu style of castle architecture that represents the Takeda clan was tragically burned down by its lord Takeda Katsuyori only 68 days after it was built during an attack by Oda Nobunaga's forces. Today, only the castle's moat, embankment, and a few other elements remain. Shinpu Fujitake Shrine located near the site of the inner citadel is known for its beautiful cherry blossoms every spring.
Onmyoji Temple

4.0

4 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Yamanashi Pref. Fuefukishi Isawachouichibe 1016

"Onmyoji Temple, a temple of the Nichiren sect of Buddhism, is located in the city of Fuefuki, Yamanashi Prefecture, just a short walk from Isawa Onsen Station on the JR Chuo Line. It is known as the site of Ukai (The Cormorant Keeper), a Noh play that was revised by the famous 15th century playwright Zeami, and the story of the cormorant keeper is still a part of the temple's heritage. According to the legend, a man used cormorants for fishing in the Isawa River, where it was forbidden to take any lives, was put to death, and became a ""hungry ghost."" In 1274, Nichiren visited the temple and performed a memorial service and exorcism for the cormorant fisherman so that he could achieve Buddhahood. A powerful statue of the guardian deity Nio is placed at the Niomon Gate, and within the temple grounds, visitors can see the Ukaido (Cormorant Keeper's Hall) and the Kuyoto (Memorial Tower)."

石和駅から徒歩だと20分強かかり、石和八幡宮の先にあります。この寺は歌曲「鵜飼」の舞台とのことで、鵜飼い翁の亡霊を日蓮上人が３日3晩の川施餓鬼(かわせがき)によって成仏させた物語です。この時に日蓮上人が作られた塚が遠妙寺の始まりと言われています。境内には、日蓮上人像、立派な仁王門、鵜飼翁の供養搭などがあります。
Takeda-jinja Shrine Treasure House

Travel / Tourism

Yamanashi Pref. Koufushi Kofuchumachi 2611

This treasure hall that opened in 1972 contains the historically and culturally valuable collection of historical treasures donated to the shrine since its founding by people with connections to the Takeda clan from across the country. Its collection is full of must-see items such as a tachi sword by Yoshioka Ichimonji, a nationally-designated Important Cultural Property, as well as a seven-star war fan and the complete set of armor with a gilded western-style cuirass from the Warring States period.
Misogi-jinja Shrine

Travel / Tourism

Yamanashi Pref. Hokutoshi Kobuchisawachou Takahara

This shrine is located in Hokuto City, Yamanashi Prefecture. It was built in 1985 by the Misogi-kyo sect of the Shinto religion as a revival of its Inoue Shrine in Higashi-Ueno, Tokyo that was lost in 1974. Yamanashi Prefecture was chosen as the location due to its high number of sect members. The Noh theater located on the temple grounds is known for being the venue for concerts by the folk duo Yuzu.
Shiki-no-mori Oshino Park Koyo Okada Photo Art Museum / Koike Kunio Drawing Letter Art Museum

4.5

3 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Yamanashi Minamitsuru-gun Oshinomura Shibokusa 2838-1

"This art museum is about a ten-minute drive from Yamanakako Interchange or about a 15-minute drive from Kawaguchiko Interchange. Is located immediately next to Oshino Shinobi no Sato bus stop. The museum shares a building with the Koike Kunio Drawing Letter Art Museum. It exhibits a large collection of photography by Koyo Okada, a photographer who was enamored by the beauty of Mt. Fuji seen from Oshino Village. In addition to a permanent exhibit of 50 photographs includes his masterpiece ""Kohan no Haru"" (Spring on the Lakeshore), the museum also displays Okada's cameras, the writings of authors with whom he was close, and other items. The museum broadly introduces the achievements of Okada, who was known to many as ""Koyo-san."""

絵手紙の創始者の小池邦夫の作品を集めた美術館なので絵手紙をされている方は訪れる価値があると思います。忍野八海から近い割には観光コースではないので混雑とは無縁でゆっくり鑑賞できます。入館料は大人500円です。
Arayayama Shrine Okumiya

Travel / Tourism

Yamanashi Fujiyoshida-shi

A 40-minute drive from the Kawaguchiko Interchange and the Fujiyoshida Interchange. This Shinto shrine is located at Mt. Fuji's second station, commonly known as Heda no Tsuji. Frequently featured in the media in recent years, the shrine is believed to grant worshippers improved luck with money and business prosperity. The shrine is primarily dedicated to Oyamatsumi-no-Kami, a god of both mountains and sea, and the rear shrine is built on a site once used as a rest area by those who engaged in maintenance work on the mountain. The current shrine was newly built in 2011. A festival for the rear shrine is held in the morning of October 16. Note that in most years the shrine is closed to visitors from late November to the end of April because the path to the shrine is closed during this time.
Daizokyo-ji Temple

4.0

3 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Yamanashi Fuefuki-shi Isawacho Matsumoto 610

"A five-minute walk from Isawa-Onsen Station on the JR Chuo Main Line. Records state this ancient Shingon Chisan Buddhist temple was founded in 722 by the great priest Gyoki and is counted as one of the seven Shingon danrin educational temples of Kai. The temple's name, which means translates to ""Tripitaka"" (the Buddhist canon), is derived from a two tier Buddhist tower built by the samurai Kai Province governor Takeda Nobunari in 1370 in which was placed a copy of the Tripitaka as an offering. A Takeda clan family temple, the temple still possesses a Shogun Jizo statue the mighty Takeda Shingen donated to pray for success in the Battles of Kawanakajima. The temple is also deeply connected to the great Tokugawa clan and possesses treasures such as a three faced Mahakala statue which was personally used by Tokugawa Ieyasu himself. A colored silk work of art depicting the death of the Buddha, designated a National Important Cultural Property, is another of the temple's many cultural assets."

石和温泉駅の温泉街と反対側にあります。時間がなかったので少し寄りました。山門の像が立派でした。義民名主島田富重郎の墓があるそうです○
Minami-Alps Municipal Museum of Art

4.0

3 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Yamanashi Minami-Alps-shi Ogasahara 1281

This art museum is located about a five-minute drive from Shirane Interchange or Minami-Alps Interchange on the Chubu-Odan Expressway. It features a collection of nihonga (Japanese-style paintings), book illustrations, book designing and binding, and other works. The collection has a particular focus on the yakusha-e (kabuki actor pictures) of Natori Shunsen, a painter born in Ogasahara, Minami-Alps City. The collection also features numerous works of artists with a connection to the region who were contemporaries of Shunsen as well as contemporary artists. The museum also holds genreless exhibitions that celebrate freedom of expression. It also offers a rental gallery in the form of its Citizen's Gallery and conducts a variety of educational programs and other events targeted at people of all ages.

甲府からバスで４０分、片道￥６５０かけてミロ展を見に行った。小さな田舎の美術館であるが、体温測定、住所TEL記入、アルコール消毒と感染対策。荷物は受付で預かってもらえる。
Paul Rusch Memorial Museum

5.0

2 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Yamanashi Pref. Hokutoshi Takanechoukiyosato 3545

"The Paul Rusch Memorial Museum is devoted to the memory of Professor Paul Rusch, known as ""the father of the Kiyosato Educational Experiment Project"" (KEEP) and ""the father of American football in Japan."" In addition to valuable documents dating from the beginnings of Rusch's project, there is also an exhibition hall devoted to the history of American football in Japan. The house where Rusch spent his last years has been preserved and is open to the public, and it shows photographs of Rusch taken during his lifetime."

清泉寮の奥にあるので、あまり目立たないせいか、いつも空いています。ラッシュさんは清泉寮を一帯を開拓した人々の指導者となった人物です。開拓の歴史をここで学びましょう。
Kunpei Fairy Tale Museum

4.5

2 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Yamanashi Hokuto Kobuchisawacho Kamisasao 3332-930

A fairy tale museum in Kobuchizawa Town, Yamanashi Prefecture. Come meet the works of Higashi Kunpei, a well-known author of children's stories who passed away prematurely. Sink into the world of the stories as simple nostalgic inducing black and white illustrations and picture book drawings are presented on display with the text that accompanies them in the stories. The museum shop offers a number of goods that can't be found anywhere else including stuffed toys of picture book characters and calendar prints.

アットホームな感じで美術館と言うより、君平さんのお宅におじゃましているような感じです。前庭の花達が訪れた私達に優しさを分けてくれます。また行きたい❣️
Shosenkyo Gorge Kagee no Mori Museum

Leisure / Hobbies

Yamanashi Pref. Koufushi Takanarichou 1035-2

This art museum is located Kofu City, Yamanashi Prefecture focused on shadow pictures is notable for its underground gallery that shuts out all-natural light. The museum's first gallery exhibits with a fantastic background music, the works of Seiji Fujishiro, the world-class master of shadow pictures who supervised the museum's design. The museum's second gallery exhibits the works of Kiyoshi Yamashita, a painter who greatly loved Shosenkyo Gorge, as well as those of Yumeji Takehisa.
Fujisan Museum

Leisure / Hobbies

Yamanashi Pref. Fujiyoshidashi Kamiyoshida 2288-1

Focusing on display of materials related to worship of Mt. Fuji, the Fujisan Museum (Fujiyoshida City Museum of History and Folklore) depicts the industries, folklore, history and compositional assets of Fuji Yoshida region. The adjacent Oshi (Former-Togawa family House), whose main building was built in 1768 and whose back parlor was added around the end of Shogunate, still exists as it did then, so you can see it today and learn many important historical things.

Yamanashi

The Base of Mt. Fuji Around Lake Kawaguchi Around Lake Yamanaka Kofu / Shosenkyo Katsunuma / Isawa Onsen Kiyosato / Kobuchisawa Minobu / Shimobe Onsen

Travel / Tourism History / Culture / Tour

Reference/Local/Exhibition/Literature Museum Shrine Castle / Ruins of Castle Historical Monument Temple Church Ruin / Grave / Ancient Tomb Memorial Hall Cultural Property Event Hall / Public Hall Art Museum Museum / Science Museum Other Historic Site/Building

Yamanashi Areas

Yamanashi prefecture is the proud home of one of Japan’s most celebrated icons: Mount Fuji. Although the mountain straddles both Yamanashi and Shizuoka, the most breathtaking views of Fuji-san can be seen from the Fuji Five Lakes north of the mountain in Yamanashi prefecture. The plethora of outdoor activities in and around the lakes all have the benefit of the country’s highest mountain as their backdrop, and we can assure you that it is an unforgettable sight.