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taigaa001 Says: Yada is known as an academic and cultural community located on the lower flank of the Nihondaira Plateau. It has University of Shizuoka, a prefectural university, Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art and Prefectural Library. It is also known as a place where you can visit some...
Suehiro, Jirocho's Sailor's Lodge
taigaa001 Says: It is another of Jirocho related site, reconstructed in 2001 using the original materials used for Jirocho's lodging house for sailor's. It is a museum, souvenir shop and a community place for Shimizu-ku residents.
taigaa001 Says: The house where Chogoro Yamamoto, commonly known as Shimizu Jirocho was born is now a sort of museum that shows how the house might have been when Jirocho led the Shimizu family. Jirocho is known as the undefeatable swordsmen during late 19th century when Tokugawa Shogunate...
taigaa001 Says: It is known as a place where the tomb of Chogoro Yamamoto known as Shimizu Jirocho lies. The tomb area is a part of a museum adjacent to the temple main hall and to get there you are asked to pay admission fee of 300 yen. The statue of Jirocho is nice but it may be the place...
taigaa001 Says: A 1,300 year-old temple originally at the mountaintop of Mt. Kunozan (currently Kunozan Toshogu stands) was reconstructed by one of the notable figures of Meiji Period and known as the close friend of Jirocho, the folk hero of Shimizu. The treasure trove of the temple is not...
taigaa001 Says: Founded in 1670 as a Nichiren Buddhism sect temple, this temple is known by 1,100 year old cycads the oldest in Japan, 300-year-old cactus trees and a nice garden. Chogyu Takayama one of the major novelists of Meiji Period loved this temple and was buried there.
cheesecake17 Says: From nihondaria plateu there is a great view of Shimizu port and miho area...The port been around since the 7th century...But only until the 16-18 century that the famous Shogunate came to view it as an important strategic site and a trading center........ The modern harbor...
cheesecake17 Says: The peak of Mt. Udo, and "Nihondaira" was named after the old story that Yamato-Takeru-no-Mikoto" looked down the field from here when he was on the way of battles to the East.This is the best place to view the Port of Shimizu and Miho Pine Trees, as well as the mountains of...
cheesecake17 Says: SPULSE Plaza is in Shimizu . A city just before Shizuoka city..You can spend a few hours here...A few things available at the PLAZA..1.- Shimizu Sushi museum (the first sushi museum of Japan)-single ticket adult 400 yen-child 200 yen, 2.-"Teruhisa Kitahara Toy Museum" single...
cheesecake17 Says: There is also a reptile house with alligators. snakes etc...... chair lift is 100 yen for adult, ONE WAY and 50 for kids over 4 years old....You can take the chair lift up for that price and then come down by roller slider....which was more fun.....but there is a charge of...
SHIZUOKA MUNICIPAL NIHONDAIRA ZOO
cheesecake17 Says: The nihondaira zoo is located on the base of Mt UDO between shizuoka and shimizu city..Its a public zoo...so elememtary kids and smaller are not charged....There are about 195 species of 700 animals, pretty good size zoo to spend 2 or 3 hours....Besides the usual animals...
cheesecake17 Says: .....There is a little story to this yokan....Long, long ago while on a journey in the mountains of Hakone, Fukawa Shinsuke helped a priest recover from an illness. As a reward for his kindness, the priest taught Fukawa the recipe for Oiwake Yokan. The rustic yokan wrapped...
taigaa001 Says: From the park area near Shizuoka Prefectural Musuem of Art, you can enjoy walking in riverside trail of Yoshida River or even to the summit of Nihondaira Hill. Start the walk from Grassy Park of University of Shizuoka then you go down the hill around the museum and walk...
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A VISIT TO NIHONDAIRA ZOO
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Shimizu, Nihondaira and Kusanagi
Japanese people older than baby-boomer generation are well versed in the story of Shimizu Jirocho once a rogue but later became a successful businessman who built Shimizu what it is today. Jirocho in...
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