Naritasan Park
This park, extending at the back of Shinsho-ji Temple covers an area of 165,000 square meters and has three ponds and various trees and flowers. While you can enjoy different kinds of flowers and greenery according to the season, it is especially famous for its plum-blossoms. From the late February to early March, plum festival is held here, when tea ceremony is performed in the open air.
Boso Fudoki-no-oka
This extensive park of 300,000 square meters, located in Hokuso Plain, is a place of historic interest. Iwaya ruins is in the park as well as 120 big and small tumuli. There is also a reference hall, where archaeological, historical and folk materials are stored. Hundreds of clay images and a model skeleton of a Naumann elephant are exhibited here. Moreover, the former auditorium of Gakushu-in and an old house from Boso have been brought and reassembled here for preservation. There are more than enough things to see in this park.
Admission: free / Open from 9:00a.m. - 4:30p.m. Closed on Mondays and the beginning and the end of the year (closed on Tuesdays when Monday falls on a national holiday) / 0476-95-3126
Boso-no-mura Museum
This museum, located next to Boso Fudoki-no-oka, presents old rows of merchant houses, a warrior residence and a peasant's house exactly as they were from the late Yedo Period (1603 - 1867) to the early Meiji Period (1868 - 1912). You can experience customs practiced then and technical arts such as paper-making and straw work. You might feel as if you were transported back to the old age.
Jinbei crossing, Lake Imba-numa
It is the remains of a ferry where Sakura Sogo is said to have crossed the lake on a boat when he went for direct appeal to the shogun. Jinbei is the name of the ferryman who took Sogo to the other side of the lake and later threw himself into the water. It is now a part of Prefectural Imba-numa Nature Park, and there is a memorial pagoda and a stone monument here. The lake is well-known as a fishing spot for carp and other fishes.
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