(5) Shirataki Park ②

(5) Shirataki Park ②

Seseragi Walking route / (B) Komoike・Shirataki Park Area

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Mishima Taisha Shrine

The Mishima Taisha shrine is widely known as one of the most prestigious shrines in Japan.(“Ichinomiya”)
The date of its foundation is unknown.
Since ancient times, the shrine has protected the area of Mishima and hence on look the name “Mishima”.

Komoike Park

The Komo-ike Park is located about 300 meters eastward from the south exit of JR Mishima Station, to the north of Shirataki Park.
The spring water from Komo-ike pond in the park is the source for Sakuragawa River, which flows through the city.

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.

Goten River

It is said that the Goten River was given its name because this river flows to the east side of a palatial home where Iemitsu, the third Shogun of the Edo period, stayed when on the way to Kyoto.

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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