(11) ShibaHoncho 6-11
Seseragi Walking route / (A) Rakujuen Area
Recommended Spots Nearby
Genbe River
The length of the Genbe River is 1.5 km.
The uppermost stream of the Genbe River is from the “Kohama pond” in the “Rakujuen Park” that is designated as a place of national scenic beauty.
Shirataki Park
Shirataki Park is located about a 5-minute walk from the south exit of Mishima Station.
It is a place for local people to relax while also allowing visitors to enjoy the “Water city Mishima”.
Tsukiya-no-Michi Path
The “Tsukiya-no-Michi Path” was named after water mill cabins called “Tsukiya” in Japanese.
Numerous watermill cabins were built around there to polish rice utilizing the river flow from the abundant spring water in Mishima City.
Kohama-no-Michi Path
There is “Kohama-no-Michi Path” on the south side of Rakujuen Park.
In terms of geology and topography, this area is considered a lava plateau, where piled up lava ejected from Mt. Fuji, itself a volcano, has accumulated.
The local residents have called the plateau Kohama since old times.
Enmyoji Temple
The Enmyoji temple was founded by Niccho Shonin in 1479 as a temple for the Nichiren sect of Buddhism.
The original mountain gate burned down in a big fire that spread in 1878, and it was replaced with the main gate from the Honjin* of Tokaido Mishima-shuku that was the eleventh of the fifty-three stations of the Tokaido Road during Edo period Japan.
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