<Osaki Hachimangu> Osaki Hachimangu (大崎八幡宮) is built in 1607 by Lord Date Masamune. It is magestic shrine pavilion with brilliantly colored carvings on a base of deep black lacquer. Also it is oldest shrine constructed in Gongen-zukuri architecture sty</osaki>…

<Main entrance of Zuihoden with Momoyama culture style> Zuihoden (瑞鳳殿) is the mausoleum of Date Masamune, powerful feudal lords in Edo Period. Masamune was known throughout Japan as "One-eyed Dragon" during Edo. When Masamune was 70 years old, he commanded this be build one of his dying req</main>…

<Goshikinuma on cloudy day> Issaikyo peak (一切経山) elevated 1949 meters in Fukushima can be reached 80-min. hike from the Jododaira (浄土平) Marshland, where the parking place is located and several hiking trails starting point. <Entrance to the mountain area> <Unmelted snow trail> </unmelted></entrance></goshikinuma>

<Wood deck with Skunk cabbage> Continued to previous article of Oze National Park, we introduce this area. www.tohoku-guide.com Oze National Park consists of three parts, Oze area, Ozegahara Marsh, and Lake Ozenuma & famous mountain such as Mt Shibutsu, Mt Hiuchigatake</wood>…

<Lookout Mt Hiuchigatake> We visited Oze National park and introduce some of their attractiveness. Oze is a national park spanning the four prefecture of Gunma, Fukushima, Niigata and Tochigi. And it is a nice hiking destination where has several surrounding mount</lookout>…

<Look over mountain range from the top> As earlier introduced, we climbed up to Mount Adatara on the opening of a mountain to climbers of May 20th(Sun). And introduced the scenery of ascend route previous article. www.tohoku-guide.com This time, we introduce decend route that i</look>…