Ishikurayama Forest Plaza

Aoyagikura Monument

Bunzo Aoyagi built a paddy warehouse in Nakazato, his hometown of Matsukawa, in 1931 in order to save the people of Higashiiwai District who were suffering from hunger and disease due to a famine and poor harvest.He wrote the origin of the storehouse in front of it. It is a monument. It is said that thanks to this warehouse, during the Tenpo famine, relief efforts spread throughout the county, and there were no roadside deaths as seen elsewhere. In this way, Bunzo was not only a great benefactor of the disaster relief efforts, but also thought about the good of the world and people, and founded the Aoyagi Bunko in Sendai. He is considered the founder of public libraries in our country.

Himetaki

Himetaki, located halfway up the Mt. Murone mountain trail, is a small spring filled with spring water from Murone Shrine that looks like stretched white silk. The branch spirit of Kumano Nachi Taisha Shrine, one of the three Kumano Sanzan shrines, is enshrined there, and it is worshiped next to Himetaki as ``Takimiya''. There is also ``Ashitoyama Kagoiwa'' nearby.

Kenji Miyazawa Monument

In 1930, Kenji was invited to work as an engineer at a limestone factory in Higashiyama Town, but due to overwork he was sick in bed. In later years, young men who admired Kenji erected a monument in Niiyama Park that reads, ``First, we will all become the shining dust of the universe and be scattered across the endless sky.''