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   Sunpu Castle

   Sunpu Castle Park is the site of the castle where Tokugawa Ieyasu spent his last years. A reconstructed turret, the garden and a statue of Ieyasu make it the axis of a walk through central Shizuoka.

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   Kunōzan Tōshō-gū

   Kunōzan Tōshō-gū is the polychrome shrine where Ieyasu was first buried, and a national treasure. It is reached up 1,159 stone steps or by the Nihondaira ropeway.

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   Shizuoka Sengen Shrine

   Shizuoka Sengen Shrine is a great shrine of the Mount Fuji cult, and its group of lacquered halls has earned it the name of the Nikkō of the east.

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   Miho no Matsubara

   Miho no Matsubara is a component of the World Heritage site, a beach of thirty thousand pines with Mount Fuji beyond them. It is also the setting of the Hagoromo legend of the feathered robe.

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   Toro

   The Toro site is an open-air museum around a reconstructed Yayoi rice-field settlement. It is the textbook site walked through at full size.

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   Tanaka Castle

   A castle that stood at Fujieda in Shizuoka prefecture. It was the seat of the Honda family, who held the Tanaka domain in the late Edo period.

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   Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art

   The prefectural art museum in the city of Shizuoka, built to mark the centenary of the founding of the prefectural assembly. Its Rodin wing holds a cast of the Gates of Hell.

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   Shizuhatagayama Kofun

   A round burial mound in the grounds of Shizuoka Sengen Shrine in Aoi ward in the city of Shizuoka, designated a national historic site in 1953.

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   Shōgen-ji Temple

   A temple of the Myōshin-ji branch of Rinzai Zen in Shimizu ward in the city of Shizuoka, founded about 817.

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    Yaizu Shrine

    A shrine at Yaizu in Shizuoka prefecture, also called Irie Daimyōjin, holding its great festival on 13 August each year.

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   Seiken-ji Temple

   A temple of the Myōshin-ji branch of Rinzai Zen at Okitsu in Shimizu ward in the city of Shizuoka. Its principal image is a Shakyamuni, and it is also known as Kiyomidera.

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   Rinzai-ji Temple

   A temple of the Myōshin-ji branch of Rinzai Zen in Aoi ward in the city of Shizuoka. Its principal image is an Amida, and it was the mortuary temple of the Imagawa, the daimyo family of the Sengoku period.

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   Katayama temple ruins

   A site at Ōya in Suruga ward in the city of Shizuoka. It is the site of a temple of the late Nara period; the temple itself has gone, but the ground was designated a national historic site in 1965.

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   Saioku-ji Temple

   A temple of the Myōshin-ji branch of Rinzai Zen at Mariko-juku in Suruga ward in the city of Shizuoka. Its principal image is an eleven-headed Kannon, and its garden was designated a national historic site and place of scenic beauty in 1936.

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