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Katori City

The national treasure tour route

This route lets you tour Katori-jingu Shrine, which possesses and curates national treasures, important cultural properties, and over 200 national and prefectural cultural properties, as well as Ino Tadataka Museum, which also displays items designated as national treasures.

Time：
2Hour(s)30Minute(s)
Distance：
4km

  1. 1Sawara Katori IC

    Address
    Katori CityYoshiwara
    URL

    2. 12Minute(s)25Second(s)

  2. 2Katori Jingu

    This shrine has been worshiped as one of the oldest shrines since ancient times. This site used to be the most important military base of the old Japanese administration in the far north of Japan. There were a lot of soldiers dispatched from the central Japan, so that the art of handling swords, called 'Katori-shinto-ryu,' was created here by lizasa Choisai who lived at a hamlet near the shrine in the Middle Age. The main building and the gate to it were erected in Edo era. Enjoy a serene, tranquil air in the tree-covered precincts. The Treasure House contains the oldest bronze mirror (national treasure) in Japan.

    Address
    Katori City1697 Katori
    URL
    Web Site

    3. 39Minute(s)56Second(s)

  3. 3Ino Tadataka's Memorial Museum

    This museum houses a lot of Tadataka's exploits, such as maps of Japan, tools, and other things tracing the process of map making.

    Address
    Katori City1722-1 Sawarai
    URL
    Web Site

    4. 1Minute(s)10Second(s)

  4. 4lno Tadataka's former residence

    It is a house where Tadataka Inoh (1745-1821) who made an accurate Japanese maps for the first time in Japan lived for 30 years.

    Address
    Katori City1899 Sawarai
    URL
    Web Site

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