[Tono sightseeing model course] – Strangely shaped rocks and stone monument course –

Opened in July 2001 in Tono, where you can experience rich nature, folk tales, and legends throughout the four seasons. You can enjoy folk tales told by storytellers for free in front of the coloring page. (Guests only)

This small shrine is often visited by couples as it is said to be the god of love. It is said that if you can tie the red cloth sold at the unmanned shop in the shrine grounds to a tree using just your left hand, you will be blessed with the fulfillment of your unrequited love.

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.

On top of two rows of stones, on the left side is a huge stone about 7 meters wide, 5 meters deep, and 2 meters thick that acts as a capstone. In the 11th chapter of Tono Monogatari Shui, it says, ``Zokuishi closely resembles what scholars call dolmens these days.'' It is also said that the tombs of ancient people were made of large stones, but Musashibo Benkei There is also a legend that a man got his foot caught and placed a capstone on the base stone.

Legend has it that when a 9-meter-tall giant rock compared its height with an arrow-tate pine tree, a Tengu kicked the rock with its geta because it was so outrageous that it had to fight with a tree at the stone's edge, and the top part of the rock was chipped off.