southern bay

Kojin Shrine

It is one of the places where the original scenery typical of Tono remains. There is a legend that Gongen-sama, who is enshrined in a thatched-roofed shrine nestled in a rice field, bit off one ear of a Gongen-sama from another land, and is also known as Kojin, the fierce god. It is a soothing landscape that you can see reflected in the rice fields in spring, green rice fields in summer, golden ears of rice in autumn, and pure white snow in winter.

Haguroiwa

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.

continuation stone

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.