(16) Mishima Taisha Shrine ④




Seseragi Walking route / (D) Mishima Taisha Shrine Area

Recommended Spots Nearby

Old Kamakura Road


The “Kamakura Kodo” is a road that was developed to connect Kyoto and Kamakura when "Minamoto no Yoritomo" started Japan’s first Shogunate regime in Kamakura (Kamakura Shogunate), and it became the essential road for east-west traffic.


House of Mishima Lunar Calendar Publisher


The “House of Mishima Lunar Calendar Publisher” is a small museum that introduces the “Mishima-goyami calendar” that is a Japan’s oldest calendar as a printed calendar with kana characters.
It is located 300 m east of the Mishima Taisha Shrine.


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.


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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