Kyozukayama

Isawagawa Onsen Sakura no Yu

In November 2003, the bathhouse and some of the facilities within the building were renovated. Effective for neuralgia, muscle pain, joint pain, frozen shoulders, motor paralysis, joint stiffness, bruises, sprains, chronic digestive diseases, hemorrhoids, sensitivity to cold, post-illness recovery, fatigue recovery, health promotion, cuts, burns, and chronic skin diseases. , frail children, chronic women's diseases. In addition to the large bathtubs, the large public baths also have two cypress baths for one or two people, each of which is fed with 100% hot spring water. Accommodation facilities and rest rooms are also available. There is also a ``Rose Garden'' where you can enjoy approximately 3,000,000 seasonal roses, and an IPGA-certified ``Park Golf Garden,'' which can be enjoyed by both adults and children.

Tendai Sect Myokenyama Kuroishi Temple

It is said to have been founded by Gyoki Bosatsu in the first year of Tenpyo (729) in the Nara period, and was called Tokozan Yakushiji, but it was destroyed by fire. Later, in the second year of the Kasho era (849), Jikaku Daishi rebuilt this ancient temple of the Tendai sect. The principal image of the temple, the Yakushi Nyorai Seated Statue, which is designated as a nationally designated important cultural property, is the only Jokan-inscribed Buddha in Japan and is inscribed in the 4th year of the Jokan era. Additionally, from the night of the 7th day of the lunar new year to the next morning, the Kuroishiji Somin Festival, a festival of naked men and flames, is held to pray for warding off misfortune and a good harvest.

Kimura Sakae Memorial Museum

Memorial hall for Sakae Kimura (1870-1943), the astronomer who discovered the "Z term". In order to honor the achievements of world-famous Dr. Sakae Kimura, who was the first director of the Latitude Observatory and discovered the observational unknown ``Z term'' in 1899, the observatory will remain as it was when it opened (1899). It was preserved in its original form and turned into a memorial museum. From Mizusawa-Esashi Station, transfer to the Iwate Prefectural Transportation Haneda Ofunato Line Mizusawa Ekidori bus stop and head to Tenmondai-mae bus stop.