Culture / Tour Spots in Kumano / Owase Area

  • Oningyo no Ie
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Mie Owase-shi Kodonocho 1-21
    This doll museum is situated on National Route 42 in Kodono-cho, Owase City. The museum operates out of a structure built in the Meiji period to serve as a villa for the Doi, a forestry family from Owase. The museum displays local traditional Owase bushi dolls, other Japanese dolls, and dolls gathered from countries around the world. The museum also adjoins Doi Bamboo Forest, a bamboo forest planted by the very same Doi family.
  • Mie Owase Kaiyo Shinsosui Aqua Station
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Mie Owase-shi Furuecho 806
    This deep ocean water intake facility is situated on National Route 311 in Furue-cho, Owase City. The only water intake facility in the Chukyo area, the facility intakes and supplies Mie Owase deep sea water from 400 meters below the surface. The facility supplies five varieties of deep sea water of differing salinities and hardnesses. The facility also serves as a center for information on deep sea water and holds activity classes and events which make use of a touch pool in the facility's courtyard.

Mie Areas

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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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