(6) Aka Bridge
Seseragi Walking route / (D) Mishima Taisha Shrine Area
Recommended Spots Nearby
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”.
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”.
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.
Riverside’s Literature Monuments (Mizukami-dori Road)
On the Mizukami-dori Street along the Sakuragawa River from Mishima Station to Mishima Taisha Shrine, there are 12 monuments of literary figures related to Mishima city, including the world-famous writers such as Dazai Osamu and Wakayama Bokusui.
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.
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