Tokoan

Former Goto family residence

This is a typical straight-style private house that divides the style of private houses in the Tohoku region into two, along with the curved houses in the south, and is estimated to have been built between the Genroku and Hoei years (1688-1711). (National/Important Cultural Property) Reservations are required to tour inside.

Nagahide Takano

A doctor from Mizusawa Ward, Oshu City, and a Dutch scholar and Enlightenment thinker. During the period of national isolation, he preached the dawn of Japan and was suppressed by the shogunate.

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.