Mataichi Falls and Fudo Falls

Tono City Museum

This museum is divided into three exhibition rooms: ``The World of Tono Tales,'' ``Tono People, Landscape, and Culture,'' and ``Special Exhibition Room,'' where you can learn about Tono's history and folklore in an easy-to-understand manner. It features a variety of elaborate exhibits, including video theaters and dioramas.

Five hundred arhats

In the 5th year of the Horeki era, in addition to the flood, there were over 60,000 people who died of starvation and disease in the entire domain due to a major crop failure that was considered one of the four major famines in the southern domain, and the following year, as a result of this, 2,500 people died of starvation in Tono territory alone. It is said that the number of harvests has increased, and poor harvests and bad harvests have continued since then. In the 3rd year of Tenmei, the 19th head priest of Daiji Temple, Gizan, carved 500 large and small natural stone statues of Arhats to repose the souls of those who died of starvation due to repeated poor harvests.

Birthplace of Kiyoshi Sasaki

Yoshiyoshi Sasaki dictated the folklore and folk tales of the Tono region to Kunio Yanagida, the author of The Tales of Tono. The house where Kiyoshi Sasaki was born is located in Yamaguchi, Tsuchibuchi Town, and although it no longer has the thatched roof of the past, it still stands in its original location. His grave is located in a mass cemetery on a hill called ``Yamaguchi Dannohana'' near his birthplace.