Spots in Matsusaka / Tsu Area

  • Shitennoji Temple
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    3.5
    22 Reviews
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    Mie Pref. Tsushi Sakaemachi 1-892
    The oldest temple in Tsu City, it is located in Sakae-machi, Tsu City, Mie Prefecture and said to have been built by Prince Shotoku at the imperial request of Empress Suiko. It originally had larger premises, but the majority of it was burned down during WWII. It includes the grave of Kaokujuei Zenni, Oda Nobunaga's biological mother, the statue of Prince Shotoku, an important cultural property, and the statue of Bhaisajyaguru. There are many valuable cultural properties that remain such as the mountain gate that is a tangible cultural property of the city. In addition, the temple also conducts a Zen experience course where you can get an easy taste of the atmosphere of a Zen temple, and sutra copying.

    歴史あるお寺らしく寺宝が一杯のようです。山門、梵鐘、他にも絵画などが文化財に指定されています。境内の自然も見所です。

  • Gojoban Yashiki
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    4.0
    101 Reviews
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    Mie Pref. Matsusakashi Tonomachi 1385
    Gojoban Yashiki is a samurai residence in which the 20 Kishu top-ranking samurai who guarded Matsusaka Castle at the end of the Edo period lived along with their families. An unusual kumiyashiki (residence for low class samurai enrolled in one of the police forces) even across all of Japan, it still remains inhabited by the samurai descendants, and only one part of the residence on the north side of the west building is open to the public. It is located approximately 15 minutes on foot from JR Matsusaka Station.

    A short street with some historical house. Worth to stop by if u stay in the city and you love Japanese stuff. Also, no good for parking

  • Roadside Station Iitaka-eki
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    4.0
    40 Reviews
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    Mie Pref. Matsusakashi Itakachoumiyamae 177
    A roadside station located in Iitaka-cho, Matsusaka City, Mie Prefecture opened as a local specialty products market in 1990. Facilities include a tourist information center, shop selling local farm-fresh produce and specialty products, cafe only open in the morning, and a restaurant which serves Matsusaka beef. Visitors can also ease away the fatigue of their journey using the station's massage service or the Iitaka no Yu natural hot spring bath house, which has 11 bath varieties, including an outdoor bath and steam bath. Also offering short soba noodle making classes, the station is a destination where families can relax and have fun.

    温泉も併設している道の駅。野菜などの地元の方々用のお買い物仕様になっていますが、伊勢うどんなど三重県の名産品も多く取り揃えてて観光にも対応しています。横に長い割と大きな道の駅という印象。ゴートゥートラベルにも対応していました。

  • Matsusaka Agricultural Park Bell Farm
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    4.0
    62 Reviews
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    Mie Pref. Matsusakashi Isederachou 551-3
    You can enjoy the various appearances of flowering trees throughout the year, and purchase fruits and vegetables grown through the hard work of local producers in Matsusaka. The five restaurants each have their own specialties, so you can choose according to the purpose and your mood. In addition, you can also participate in various experiential classes. (advance reservation required) It is located two minutes by car from the Isewangan Expressway Matsusaka Interchange.

    登録犬数ほぼ毎年一位の三重 考えが固くふるくさい なぜこんな素敵な場所にわんこはいれないの? わんこ全てレストランもオッケーにしたら 利益でるまちがいないのにそれをせず 赤字

  • Mie Prefectural Museum (MieMu)
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    4.0
    50 Reviews
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    Mie Pref. Tsushi Isshindenkoudubeta 3060
    This museum opened in 2014. To reach it, take a bus for five minutes from the west entrance of Kintetsu, JR, and Ise Railway's Tsu Station and get off at the Sogo Bunka Center Mae stop. It's right there. The museum is designed to provide a comprehensive understanding of the prefecture. Its main exhibition room depicts Mie's characteristic natural environment around the perimeter of the room, and in the middle presents a comprehensive overview of its people, physical items, and history of cultural exchange. You can also see a fully reconstructed ancient elephant known as the Mie Elephant, consisting of the oldest fossils to be discovered in Mie prefecture. In the back yard there's a reproduction of the Torii Kofun burial mound's stone hut.

    凄くお金をかけて作られた建物ですね。 一時間ほど時間が余ったので、行ってみました。 コロナ禍なので展示内容にも色々制限がかかっていましたが、 510円の入場料としては、それなりに楽しめる内容だったと思います。 ただ、非常に平べったい展示なので、もっと尖った特徴のある内容の展示の方が人を呼べるのでは?と思いました。例えば伊賀忍者とか...

  • Roadside Station Okuise O-dai
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    3.5
    34 Reviews
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    Mie Taki-gun Odaicho Sawara 663-1
    Located approximately a three-minute drive from the Ise Expressway Omiyaodai Interchange, this roadside station sells specialty products unique to Oku Ise centered on seasonal vegetables. The cafeteria has many kinds of noodles and set meal items, and the daily lunch item filled with handmade side dishes using seasonal vegetables is especially popular. There are many recommended items, four kinds of local burger using plenty of specialty products, such as venison, sweetfish, green tea, wasabi and shiitake mushrooms harvested in Odai-cho, Uchiyama Ranch soft-serve ice cream, and old-fashioned handmade mochi rice cakes including naisho-mochi and pocchari-mochi.

    駐車場が広くてトイレ休憩・ショッピング・食事にも最適な道の駅です。比較的新しい施設だけでなく、休憩所や観光案内センターまであるのがすごい。産直市場には地元で取れた新鮮な野菜果物などが並び、種類もたくさんあってちょっとしたスーパーのよう。ランチメニューが充実したレストランも併設されていて、食事をするお客さんで混んでいました。

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    Mie Taki-gun Takicho
  • Tsu Kairaku Park
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    3.5
    43 Reviews
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Mie Pref. Tsushi Koumeichou 147-1
    Tsukairaku Park is just a three-minute walk from Tsu Station on the Kinki Nippon Railway. The second home that Todo Takayukiko, the 11th daimyo of Tsu Clan, built during the late 1850s has been turned into a park that makes use of the effects of the surrounding hills and valleys. The park is a favorite spot for viewing the blossoms of the 1000 or so Yoshino cherry trees that have been planted there, and during the blossom season, from late March to early April, the grounds are lit up with 250 or more standing and hanging paper lanterns, attracting large numbers of visitors. They can also see the purple Korean rhododendrons planted near Mt. Suzuka Ino and Mt. Shibumi.

    津駅からすぐにある丘になっている公園 お花見スポットとしては小屋があるので、屋内で飲めます 最高です。 お花見のシーズンは装飾がしてあるので簡単にわかります

  • Mie-ken Sogo Bunka Center for the Arts
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    3.5
    12 Reviews
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    Mie Tsu-shi Isshindenkozubeta 1234
    This cultural facility is located in Isshindenkozubeta, Tsu City. The facility consists of a fine arts center, lifelong learning center, gender equality center, and open spaces. Facilities include a 1,900-seat auditorium, as well as a multipurpose hall, conference rooms of various sizes, seminar rooms, and a library. There's also a restaurant, cafe, and shop. Flea markets and other events are held in the open spaces.

    少しは苗えら所に、回送用の観光バス専用の駐車場があるのは良いのですが、駐車場に面した道路を左折では、長い車両が回りきれず、右折して入るしか方法がないのですが、高越整理の要員がいないので、今度は、直進車両が居て、右折できずに、バスの後ろが大渋滞となっている場面を散見します。道路から右左折せずに、直進して入場・退場ができるように改善が急務です。

  • Matsusaka City Tourist Information Center
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    3.5
    30 Reviews
    Travel / Tourism
    Mie Pref. Matsusakashi Kyoumachi 507-2
    This pilot site delivers tourism information for Matsusaka City. The landmark for the center is the cylindrical building lined with blue glass windows. The signboard also includes the mascot for Matsusaka City, Chachamo. Many different pamphlets are placed on the counter, and they show attractions in the city. With a luggage storage facility, you can temporarily store large travel bags to freely enjoy sightseeing. They also conduct bicycle rentals for tourists, and have several bicycles with electric power assist.

    JR松阪駅の改札を出てお城側に進む通り沿いに有ります。時間にしたら1分もかからないところに有ります。いつものことですが、観光MAPを頂いての観光です。

  • Saiku Historical Museum
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    4.5
    27 Reviews
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Mie Pref. Takigunmeiwachou Takegawa 503
    This historical museum run by Mie Prefecture is located about a 15-minute walk from Kintetsu Railway's Saiku Station. The place where the museum is built is the site of the palace for the ancient imperial princesses serving at the Ise shrine from ancient times until the period of the northern and southern dynasties (1336-1392). The exhibits are centered on Shinto rituals, history and culture related to the princesses serving at Ise Jingu Shrine. The research results of the townscape at the time based on over 30-year excavation survey of the site are also on display. Special exhibitions and lectures are also held, and among them is a unique one where you can tour an actual site currently being excavated.

    名称として《斎宮》を知っていましたが 実際にどのようなことをやっていたのか よくわからず 今回 ゆったりと伊勢・志摩エリアを旅行したのを機会に《斎宮跡》内の3施設の1ケ所として訪問しました。こちらの内部は3つのエリア;映像展示室と展示室1&2...

  • Kazahayanosato Kappa no Furusato
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    4.5
    19 Reviews
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    Mie Pref. Tsushi Hekichou 4096
    This flower garden is located in the Ise Onsen Golf Club which is a five-minutedrive from HisaiInterchange on the Ise Expressway. As the first flower garden in Japan to incorporate horticultural welfare, it combines aspects of environment and welfare. From early February to late March, 500 plum trees of 45 types carpet the lawn with their red and white petals, and around Golden Week, the 1800 trellises of nine different types of wisteria tree blossom with their large clusters of flowers. The low rolling hills of the garden make it the largest in Japan, and in June, visitors can take a stroll through the soothing flowery lanscape, which with its 56 different types of 75,000 hydrangea flowers, entertains the eye with endlessly delightful changes of colors.

    紫陽花まつりに行って来ました。ゴルフ場内の広大な敷地に色とりどりの紫陽花が咲いていました。園内には池や湿地帯も有り自然観察も出来ます。入口から送迎用ゴルフカートも出ているので身体の不自由な方も近くまで乗せてもらえます。園内はアップダウンが有り、足場が悪い所も有るのでスニーカーで出かける事をお勧めします。

  • Motoori Norinaga Museum
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    4.0
    29 Reviews
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    Mie Pref. Matsusakashi Tonomachi 1536-7
    The Motoori Norinaga Museum is the former residence (Suzuya) of Motoori Norinaga, a scholar of ancient Japanese literature and culture who lived in the Edo period, and has a collection of approximately 16,000 items that include displays of his Commentary on the Kojiki, handwritten manuscripts, articles that belonged to him, and a self-portrait. Of the entire collection, 467 types and 1,949 items are National Important Properties, and 20 types of 31 items are Prefectural Tangible Cultural Properties. There are many displays and special events, and one can learn about Motoori Norinaga as well as Japanese culture after the latter half of the 18th century. It is approximately 15 minutes on foot from JR Matsusaka Station.

    松坂城址にある本居宣長記念館です。お名前だけは日本史のにおいて学びましたが具体的には説明できません。興味が有る方は寄られると良いかもしれませんね。

  • Tsu Kannon (Enichizan Kannonji Temple)
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    3.5
    16 Reviews
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    Mie Pref. Tsushi Daimon 32-19
    This Shingon Buddhist temple is located approximately a three-minute walk after getting off the Mie Kotsu bus at the Kyoguchitatemachi bus stop from the JR and Kintetsu Railway Tsu Station. Officially named Enichizan Kannonji Temple is one of the three major Kannon temples in Japan, along with theAsakusaKannon inTokyoand Osu-Kannon inNagoya. Having continued to protect the city of Tsu for over 1,300 years since the Nara period (710-794), it was repaired in 1580 by the lord of Tsu Castle, Oda Nobukane. In the adjacent museum, many treasures passed down with a long history are on display, including portraits of Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu, Buddhist paintings, crafts and old documents.

    桐の花がきれいに咲いていました。裏手に無料駐車場があり、気軽に行けます。五重の塔もなかなか見応えがあります。

  • Matsusaka City Museum of History and Folklore
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    4.0
    22 Reviews
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    Mie Matsusaka-shi Tonomachi 1539
    This museum tells the history of Matsusaka City and is located about a 15-minute walk from Matsusaka Station. Housed in the former Iinan County Library that was built in 1912, the building was renovated to become the museum it is today. The building has been designated a registered tangible cultural property of Japan. Centered on the history of Matsusaka City, it has exhibits about Matsusaka merchants, Ise face powder and Matsusaka cotton that were mainly handled by Matsusaka merchants. On the first floor, there is a restoration exhibit of the store of a Matsusaka merchant using large imitation leather and tobacco container signboard.

    松阪城跡の中にある歴史民俗資料館。建物は明治45年1912年に建てられた旧飯南郡図書館で、国の登録有形文化財にも指定されている歴史的建築物。2階が松阪出身の映画監督、小津安二郎の記念館になっていて、小津ファンには見逃せないところです。

  • Roadside Station Tsu Kawage
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    Mie Pref. Tsushi Kawagechoumiyuki 255-4
    Roadside Station Tsu Kawage opened in 2016 in the town of Kawage, which is considered the gateway to the city of Tsu in Mie Prefecture. It sells a wide variety of carefully selected items, including a section that sells freshly caught fish from Kawage Harbor, Shiratsuka Harbor and Karasu Harbor, and vegetables grown by local farmers, and a section that sells souvenirs of Tsu and locally produced sake. The onsite restaurant, Tsu-no-mono Kitchen serves such specialties such as shirasu (whitefish) Toast, hampen (fish sausage loaf)set meal, and the Tsu-no-mono prix fixe meal, which gives customers a chance to enjoy the day's catch from Ise Bay. On weekdays, customers are offered all the freshly baked bread they can eat.
  • Roadside Station Chakuraeki
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    3.0
    3 Reviews
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    Mie Pref. Matsusakashi Inanchoukayumi 452-1
    This roadside station is located in Iinan-cho, Matsusaka City, Mie Prefecture. You can feel the warmth of the wood from the log cabin-style walls inside, and it is packed with fresh vegetables, select locally produced green tea, and Ise-cha Iri Udon Chakura Monogatari kneaded with the Iinan-cho specialty, deep-steamed green tea. In addition to stores, there is also a meal space on the first floor where you can have the highly recommended Chakura set and ocha udon (noodles kneaded with green tea). In the cafe space on the second floor, you can relax with a cup of coffee while enjoying the Kushida River below.

    地元のとりたて野菜の品ぞろえっが充実していました。鮮度もよく価格も安い。とくにおいしかったのが「とまと」みずみずしくて味も濃厚。

  • O Yatsu Town
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Mie Tsu-shi Moricho 1945-11
  • Kitabatake Shrine
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    4.0
    7 Reviews
    Travel / Tourism
    Mie Pref. Tsushi Misugichoukamitage 1148
    This shrine is located in Kamitage, Misugi-cho, Tsu City, Mie Prefecture. The shrine is located inside the TageKitabatake Castle Ruins. The principle deity of the shrine is KitabatakeAkiyoshi of Ise Province, which prospered as Okuichishi'sTagegosho. It is also a Taiheiki Yukari shrine, and as such, many famous people have visited this shrine over the years. The Kitabatake Castle Ruins Garden inside the shrine is a famous garden of the Muromachi period which combines the traditional Kare Sansui style with the style of having a path around a pond. It is also famous as a spot for viewing the red Autumn leaves. It features illuminations for only a few days each November.

    日本史にはあまり詳しくないのですが、北畠氏とは、このあたりを治めていた戦国大名だそうで、その旧宅近くにある神社です。特に観光スポットというわけではないですが、コンパクトできれいなつくりでした。

  • Kitabatake Samurai Gardens
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    4.0
    7 Reviews
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    Mie Pref. Tsushi Misugichoukamitage 1148
    This ornamental pond style Buke-Shoin garden is located in a corner of Kitabatake Shrine, in Misugi-cho, Tsu City, Mie Prefecture. It is one of the three great Samurai gardens of Japan and was created by Hosokawa Takakuni, the grandfather of Harutomo Kitabatake, who was the governor of Ise in the Muromachi Period. This garden is reminiscent of Kitabatake's splendor in the way it embodies the aesthetics of the local prominent families of the time. Its charming beauty is simple and openhearted. As a garden representative of the Nanboku-cho period, it has been designated as a national place of scenic beauty and as a historical site. It is also very well known as a place to view the green leaves of spring and the red leaves of fall.

    続日本百名城巡りの一環として初めて行きました。北畠神社をお参りし、御朱印とスタンプをいただきました。せっかくなので300円払って庭園を鑑賞しました。巨木が木陰を作り、苔がきれいな緑のじゅうたんのように一面を覆っていました。

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Spread across the eastern side of the Kii Peninsula, Mie prefecture boasts hundreds of kilometers of pretty coastline comprising the oyster-rich Toba city and Shima National Park all the way down to Kumano, a city that marks the beginning of part of the Kumano Kodo pilgrimage, which runs into neighboring Wakayama prefecture. However, Mie is best known for the Ise Jingu Shinto shrine inland, one of the oldest and largest shrines in the country.

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