Hello! This is the Matsuzaki Town Tourism Association!
Matsuzaki Town, Kamo District, Shizuoka Prefecture is a town located in the southern part of the Izu Peninsula.
On Mt. Fuji Day, February 23, Heisei 24, we declared "the town where you can see Mt. Fuji the most beautiful in the world".
Please come and see the large panorama of Mt. Fuji that can be seen over Suruga Bay.
We will send out information that will make you captivated by Matsuzaki Town, Shizuoka Prefecture, so thank you!
Matsuzaki Town, Kamo District, Shizuoka Prefecture is a town located in the southern part of the Izu Peninsula.
On Mt. Fuji Day, February 23, Heisei 24, we declared "the town where you can see Mt. Fuji the most beautiful in the world".
Please come and see the large panorama of Mt. Fuji that can be seen over Suruga Bay.
We will send out information that will make you captivated by Matsuzaki Town, Shizuoka Prefecture, so thank you!
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![[Image1]Ushiharayama Townspeople’s Forest1. This Ushiharayama Townspeople’s Forest was created for learning](https://img.cooljapan-videos.com/files/member_posts/image/97b23336014f289860f3ba148bea718ac89267dc.jpg)
Ushiharayama Townspeople’s Forest
1. This Ushiharayama Townspeople’s Forest was created for learning about and appreciating nature, and for soothing the body and mind.
2. Stay on the trail and avoid dangerous actions.
3. Be careful with fire; smoking while walking is prohibited.
4. Cherish the natural environment.
5. Please take all your trash home with you.
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![[Image1]Site of AioidōThis is the place where Minamoto no Yoritomo and the priest Monga met in secret to dis](https://img.cooljapan-videos.com/files/member_posts/image/23b74bef3c2c478f35d1cedaa810c9f85215bc2f.jpg)
Site of Aioidō
This is the place where Minamoto no Yoritomo and the priest Monga met in secret to discuss the revival of the Minamoto clan. It is said that Monga urged Yoritomo here to defeat the Taira and repeatedly pressed him to resolve to act.
However, after the Meiji Restoration the hall was abolished, and before long it fell into ruin.
Buddha Path
These statues were placed here to console the spirits of unclaimed travelers who died in this area.
Every year they hold memorial services during the spring and autumn equinoctial weeks and pray for the safety of visitors.
To commemorate his meeting with Monga, Yoritomo had a hall built here and enshrined Kannon Bodhisattva. This came to be called the so‑called “Aioidō.”
In Kenkyu 3 (1192), after destroying the Taira and the Fujiwara and establishing the Kamakura shogunate, Yoritomo did not forget the day he met Monga and donated two hundred koku of temple land to Aioidō.
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![[Image1]During the Edo period, an epidemic swept through the area and many people died. This monument was er](https://img.cooljapan-videos.com/files/member_posts/image/410743cc847e766d7ec9f0e3905f246c909531cd.jpg)
During the Edo period, an epidemic swept through the area and many people died. This monument was erected to pray for their souls, and even today many visitors come to pray for children’s health and for safe childbirth.
This place is also the birthplace of Watanabe Kihei, the Izu naval commander entrusted with the important task of escorting the lord and his retainers when, 383 years ago, Ukita Hideie, a senior retainer of the Toyotomi clan and lord of Bizen-Okayama Castle (570,000 koku), was exiled to Hachijo Island along with thirteen of his vassals.
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![[Image1]This Trowel Monument was built as a facility to enshrine the trowel, the soul of master plasterers,](https://img.cooljapan-videos.com/files/member_posts/image/c5e9ac5f719b298195513ca5beea22c1d0d48db9.jpg)
This Trowel Monument was built as a facility to enshrine the trowel, the soul of master plasterers, with the Japan Federation of Plasterers’ Associations serving as the sponsoring organization. It was completed in November 2005. The building is a cylindrical structure 5.5 m high and 3.4 m in diameter. Under the design and technical direction of Katsumi Kimoto (construction committee chair), craftsmen adhered to traditional plastering techniques, concentrating the finest plastering skills on both the interior and exterior.
The work was carried out mainly by plastering artisans from the Kanagawa Prefecture Plasterers’ Association together with plasterers from Matsuzaki Town. The exterior walls feature namako-style tiling, the entire façade is finished with an arare (seigaiha) exposed-aggregate wash, and the ceiling—centered by a phoenix motif—is crafted using seven-treasure star gypsum molds. Masterful shikkui (plaster) trowel paintings depict dragons and tigers, peony blossoms, and flocks of cranes in flight. The characters reading “Trowel Monument” displayed on the front were brushstroked by then-Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi. This nationwide-scale Trowel Monument is unique in Japan, and there is no other monument of this kind constructed by plastering work. Housed inside the shrine is a 60 cm-long “Mitama Trowel,” the only black-forged trowel in Japan, forged and dedicated by a trowel smith specifically for this monument.
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![[Image1]View from the summit of Mt. EboshiFrom the summit of Mt. Eboshi, at an elevation of 162 m, you can t](https://img.cooljapan-videos.com/files/member_posts/image/2b5cf087e55cf3b4930d6d005c1610555629cdac.jpg)
View from the summit of Mt. Eboshi
From the summit of Mt. Eboshi, at an elevation of 162 m, you can take in sweeping views of the coastline formed by submarine volcanic deposits, including Mt. Eboshi and Senganmon, as well as the beautiful shores of Kumomi, Iwaji, and Dogashima.
The area is a trove of rare deep-sea life, including the giant spider crab (takaashigani).
Before you lies Suruga Bay, where the Philippine Sea Plate subducts beneath the Honshu plate; its deepest point reaches about 2,500 m, making it Japan’s deepest bay.
The area is a trove of rare deep-sea life, including the giant spider crab (takaashigani).
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![[Image1]Please note that the lights in this cave turn on at 8:30 AM and go out at 5:00 PM. Once the lights g](https://img.cooljapan-videos.com/files/member_posts/image/61d596773b02b6012e44ad6e0b08e3dd7b919db8.jpg)
Please note that the lights in this cave turn on at 8:30 AM and go out at 5:00 PM. Once the lights go out, the cave becomes completely dark, so for safety reasons please do not enter after 4:30 PM. If a power outage or other event causes the lights to go out unexpectedly, remain calm and proceed out slowly.
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![[Image1]Old Osawa SchoolhouseBuilt in 1873 (Meiji 6) with private funds, it opened as the public elementary](https://img.cooljapan-videos.com/files/member_posts/image/8c2eef89d82a6171babf6fdb61d9be764c5ed46d.jpg)
Old Osawa Schoolhouse
Built in 1873 (Meiji 6) with private funds, it opened as the public elementary school Osawa Schoolhouse.
Later, in 1889 (Meiji 22) it was repurposed as the Nakagawa village office, but the village office was abolished after the municipal merger in 1955 (Showa 30). It was relocated and restored to its current site in 1993 (Heisei 5), preserving the appearance it had when first opened.
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![[Image1]A Short Journey to Bentenjima: Submarine Volcanoes and Coastal Vegetation In the western and souther](https://img.cooljapan-videos.com/files/member_posts/image/3a698677f5b86ad54b94dfd21eec95bc326634bd.jpg)
A Short Journey to Bentenjima: Submarine Volcanoes and Coastal Vegetation
In the western and southern parts of the Izu Peninsula, deposits from ancient submarine volcanoes are widely distributed. After a long age of submarine volcanism, the whole of Izu experienced uplift and erosion, exposing volcanic internal structures that would otherwise have remained buried underground.
A short walk toward the sea brings you to a small hill called Bentenjima. Originally an island known in antiquity as Kyodai-jima, it became connected to the mainland in 1957 after river mouth engineering works.
Walking the roughly 200-meter promenade that circles the islet, you notice the rocky shore is made up of many angular rock fragments. When lava from an underwater eruption flows along the seabed, it cools abruptly in contact with water and shatters into pieces. It resembles what happens when a glass filled with a hot drink is plunged into cold water and cracks. The material formed by this process is called quenched fragmented lava, and it serves as evidence that lava once flowed underwater.
A stand of ubamegashi oak naturally growing on the rocks is another highlight of Bentenjima.
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![[Image1]Poet Noguchi Ujo visited this area in July of 1930 to give a lecture in the West Izu district. On th](https://img.cooljapan-videos.com/files/member_posts/image/dbfed21b31044262c03565913a6819baeccd11f2.jpg)
Poet Noguchi Ujo visited this area in July of 1930 to give a lecture in the West Izu district. On that occasion, he praised the shape of this mountain in a similar way. The villagers have affectionately passed down the poem, calling it "Tekkobuttakobu no Uta."
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![[Image1]Kyodo (Rotating Sutra Repository) This kyodo was erected in Bunka 7 (1810) by the sculptor Hanbee Is](https://img.cooljapan-videos.com/files/member_posts/image/0e28717508a0ea3cd8cf5ca080ae90256bca2fcc.jpg)
Kyodo (Rotating Sutra Repository)
This kyodo was erected in Bunka 7 (1810) by the sculptor Hanbee Ishida, who was born in Matsuzaki Town. The rotatable scripture chest has six faces, each fitted with drawers holding a total of sixty books. Each face bears symbols corresponding to the twelve zodiac signs.
This rotating style originated in China and came to Japan with Zen Buddhism. It is said that turning this sutra repository once confers the same merit as reciting the entire Buddhist canon.
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