Kitadate cherry blossoms

Haku Goto Memorial Community Center

It is known as the first "community center" in Japan. It was constructed and donated in November 1941. The donor was Matsutaro Shoriki, the president of Yomiuri Shimbun at the time, who was a close friend of Shinpei Goto, and the gift was given to him on the 13th anniversary of Shinpei's death as a token of gratitude for his past kindness. After that, it was used as the Mizusawa City Community Center, and since October 2001, it has become the ``Mizusawa City Haku Goto Memorial Community Center.''

Former Iwayado Kyoritsu Hospital and Mukoyama Park

The former Iwayado Kyoritsu Hospital was built in the 7th year of the Meiji era as the prefecture's first hall of Western medicine, ``Iwayado Kyoritsu Hospital.'' This pavilion-style building, which uses Western-style techniques, is the motif of Kazuo Kikuta's ``Kane no Naru Oka,'' and the melody of ``Kane no Naru Oka'' plays every morning and evening. Mukoyama Park, located on a hill nearby, has a spectacular view, and within the park are the former Goto family residence, which is a nationally important cultural property, and the Yasunari Kawabata Literary Monument.

Samurai housing

In the early modern period, Mizusawa was a castle town with a population of 16,000 koku, and the townscape still remains reminiscent of those days. Mizusawa Castle was a flat castle, also known as Wagyu Castle, but it was surrounded by samurai residences, and was a key point for the defense of the northern part of the Sendai domain, with key-shaped roads and squares that served as key points of defense in battle. . Even now, there are still remains of the castle ruins, including the Ubagisugi, samurai residences, Hibagaki streets, and merchant storehouses.