Introduction
There, a green land suddenly appears in the mountains. By the end of the 19th century, British travel explorer Isabella Bird called the Okitama area in Yamagata the Arcadia of Asia. Why ?
President Kennedy reportedly raised Youzan Uesugi, Yonezawa lord, as a Japanese politician he respected in his inaugural interview. There are many Japanese who do not know this person, but the following sayings, rather than as a poem written by him, have been heard at least once .
“If you try to do, it can be achieved, if you don’t, it will never be achieved. Achieving nothing is due to one’s own intention to not try.”
Furthermore, 150 years ago, there was a capable leader named Kanetsugu Naoe. What they have in common is that they value people and do not restructure. The Arcadia may have been created by people who were carefully protected in countryside.
Detail
1st day
09:30 Start from Fukushima Station by car
10:30 High-speed railway suddenly appears at the lonely station building in deep mountains*
*)This station was found by chance looking for Namegawa Hot Spring and waterfall running down the monolithic with 80m hight.
13:30 How the Arcadia was created by the Uesugi family*, the lord occasionally transferred by the highest authority ?
*)Everyone knows that a pioneer warlord of Uesugi family, Kenshin Uesugi, had ruled Niigata area. What happened the move to Yonezawa ?
16:00 Sasano Kannon(Temple), Thatched roof of which looks like a helmet of battle, is a symbol of faith*
*)Hawks carving was a souvenir and the technology has been passed down to the present and has become a representative folk craft of Yonezawa.
17:30 Eat Yonezawa Beef (Wagyu) in Shirabu Hot Spring*
*)Soak in a hot spring that springs like a flood at a thatched-roof house
2nd day
09:00 start from Shirabu Hot Spring
10:00 Buddha’s wisdom bag, Monjyu Bodhisattva*, is a children’s playground. One of Japan’s three major Buddha Bodhisattvas.
*)Is the world of Buddha made up of tough hierarchies?
13:00 The quarry of the warm-colored Takahata Stone* is a labyrinth.
*)Takahata Stone is used not only for the base of a house, a fence and a tombstone, but also for the old station building. Also pay attention to the new station building in fairyland.
**)The fan-shaped terrain is a fruit production area, especially grapes. Do not miss tasting of wine !
17:00 go back to Fukushima
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