
Hot Spring Temple
It is the beginning of the beginning that in the third year of Kagen (1305), the Tokuseki-shōkan [kokamperi] kokushi of Tōfuku-ji [Tōfukuji], Kyoto, stopped at this place on the way of a national tour and built a hermitage to teach people the efficacy of hot springs. It was later converted to the Sōtō sect, and Takeda Shingen had him spruiked Gagai [garan] in Eiroku 7 (1564).