Kokeshi-bashi Bridge (over Matsu-kawa River)

Kokeshi-bashi Bridge (over Matsu-kawa River)

Jul 21, 2023 | Utamakura - Poetry Places

  Kokeshi-bashi Bridge is a 91-meter long and 7.8-meter wide bridge, part of National Highway 457, which crosses the Matsu-kawa River. On both sides and at both ends of the bridge there are metal three-meter-high kokeshi dolls, made in 1971. Kokeshi are wooden...
Zao

Zao

Jul 21, 2023 | Utamakura - Poetry Places

Zao is short for the Zao Mountain Range, which is part of the larger Ou Mountain Range. The mountains seen from the Miyagi Prefecture side of the ranges are, left to right (south to north): Fubou-san (1705 meters), Minami, Byobu-dake (1810 meters), Byobu-dake (1825...
Aoso-san　(Aoso-yama）

Aoso-san　(Aoso-yama）

Jul 21, 2023 | Utamakura - Poetry Places

Aoso-san (799 meters) is an independent old bipyramid volcano on the eastern side of the Zao Mountain Range, southeast of the central Togatta Onsen district. It has several peaks, including the Akera peak to the west is 10 m higher than elsewhere on Aoso-san. It is...
Kitaharao

Kitaharao

Jul 21, 2023 | Utamakura - Poetry Places

Kitaharao is a dairy farming village, pioneered by people who once lived in what is now the Republic of Palau in the South Pacific; they were resettled here after World War II. Palau had become a Japanese colony in 1920, as part of the South Seas Mandate, which was a...