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A noted place of Ryuoh

The Shinto shrine which is famous for national treasure appointment, a building of the Kamakura era.
NAMURA Shrine
With patron saint of 33 neighboring villages,A big festival is performed once in 33 years.A thatched two-storied gate gets a lot of looks even from the distance. A lot of others are appointed to important cultural property. It is the Shinto shrine which can say a treasure house of cultural assets standing still in a forest of a local deity.
【Location】Ayado Ryuo town, Gamo-gun, Shiga Pref.
【Inquiry】0748-57-0160(NAMURA Shrine)
NAMURA Shrine


You can meet the song which Sadaie Fujiwara / Izumishikibu wrote.
Ryuo temple
In a temple of Tendai sect in Mt. Yukino Minamiyama , it was founded (711 years) for first half year. However, I was destroyed by a repeated fire, and it was rebuilt in the Heian era. Tthereafter it was checked with "Ryuo temple" by Yukino temple.
12 wooden twelve divine warriors statues and a temple bell are important cultural property appointment.
A legend of a beautiful woman and a large snake concerns a temple bell, and Sadaie Fujiwara and Izumishikibu, the song which Hitomaro Kakinomotono wrote are raised.
In addition, "a private temple" of a Ryuo temple is written in a song of Masafusa Oeno.
It is assumed that "Invocations and prayers with Sponge cucumber" performed to (mid-autumn) on August 15 in the old calendar work for asthma every year and is full of a large number of worshipers daylong.
【Location】Kawamori, Ryuo town, Gamo-gun, Shiga Pref.
【Inquiry】0748-57-1166(Ryuo temple)
A dragon king temple - 龍王寺


A building of the important cultural property appointment( Nanbokucho Period)
KAGAMI Shinto shrine
This neighborhood prospered as ancient morality Tosando, a post town of Nakasendo highway (the neighborhood of existing National highway No. 8), "an inn of KAGAMI". A sun spear of an enshrined deity is conveyed with the Silla prince who taught metalworking, ceramics technology. He was worshiped as an ancestral god because he tried for development of a village, and he has been defended and maintained veneration. A main shrine is called a building of Nanbokucho period, and it is appointed to important cultural property.
【Location】Kagami, Ryuo town, Gamo-gun, Shiga Pref.
【Inquiry】0748-58-0959(KAGAMI Shinto shrine)

A mirror Shinto shrine - 鏡神社


A pond of the Yoshitsune Minamoto, only a few person knows.

A pond of Yoshitsune rite to mark the attainment of manhood
On the way to Oshu from Kyoto, Yoshitsune Minamoto stayed at an inn of Honcho KAGAMI . He is famous for a battle of GENPEI. It is said that he dropped a forelock with water of this pond and had the ceremony of manhood.
【Location】Kagami, Ryuo town, Gamo-gun, Shiga Pref.
【An inquiry】0748-58-0959(Kagami Shinto shrine)


A pond of Yoshitsune rite to mark the attainment of manhood - 義経元服の池


Stand still at Saiko temple, Denkyo taishi( Buddhism Great Teacher)built

HOUKYOUINTOU and a stone lantern
Buddhism Great Teacher Denkyo taishi built Saiko temple by a divine message of a dream of Kannon. It is an old historic temple said that Yoritomo Minamoto and Takauji Ashikaga stayed.
IDon't talk about other HOUKYOUINTOU without watching this HOUKYOUINTOU, this is the best.-Everyone cries.
Buddhist images on four sides are carved, and concentrated elegant design still leaves a trace in a burning place of a fireplace. Important cultural property appointment.

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【Location】Oguchi, Ryuo town, Gamo-gun, Shiga Pref.
【Inquiry】0748-58-3706 Association of Ryuo town sightseeing
HOUKYOUINTOU and a stone lantern


"TOUJIN of a valley of Kagamimura of an Oomi country" which is left in the Chronicle of Japan.
Kagamiyama ruins of a kiln group - earthen vessel
A thing well-known as the Shiga bottom's greatest earthen vessel ruins of a kiln group is this Kagamiyama ruins of a kiln group. 50 ruins of a kiln are confirmed , there will be 100 in all.
IEarthen vessel ruins of a kiln group exists in Yakushi Ryuo town, Oguchi / Yamanaka / Shichiri / Sue / Yaomo / Kagami/ Iricho, Yasucho, Yasu-gun / Ou Shinohara.These ruins of a kiln group started earthen vessel production in the first half in the sixth century. In the beginning in the seventh century from the latter half in the sixth century ,it seem to have invited the golden age. Production will continue to the eighth century charges afterwards.
In addition, it is known even that some artisan groups of these ruins of a kiln group appear to "The Chronicle of Japan" (Emperor Suinin March, 3rd article) as "Toujin of a valley of Kagamimura of an Oomi country". An origin of the place name of current Sue Ryuo-cho district is informed that the place name was created as one of the ruins of a kiln of this earthen vessel.
【Location】Oguchi, Ryuo town, Gamo-gun, Shiga Pref.
【Inquiry】0748-58-3711(Ryuo-cho Board of Education, Education Section)
Kagamiyama ruins of a kiln group - earthen vessel - 鏡山窯跡群-須恵器


Built in the fifth century middle part, a scallop form old burial mound.
An Amemiya old burial mound
Located in the vicinity of an entrance of the valley which Sofu river of kishkes of plains of Ryuo-cho formed,
Amemiya old burial mounds are scallop form old burial mounds built from the south to the north on an offset of the shape of a tongue derived from a lengthening hill.
Length 82m, diameter 67m, height 9m, front director 22m, front region 35m in width, amount of front region 1.9m.
Excavation is not yet performed, but it is considered it to have been built in the fifth century.
ICharacteristic in a scale, form, construction technology and its good condition.
【Location】Okaya,Ryuo town, Gamo-gun, Shiga Pref.
【Inquiry】0748-58-3711(Ryuo-cho Board of Education, Education Section)
An Amemiya old burial mound - 雨宮古墳

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