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There are seasonal vegetables and fruits, such as sweet corn "Kankanmusume" which is so popular that a special sale event is also held in June, the sugar content is high in the fall and the juicy Taikyu persimmon, and the shrimp which is cultivated around Chiejima, Kamoshima-cho. Also, processed products such as miso made by JA Women's Club are popular products.

The "Passing Prayer Ticket" at JR Tokushima Line Gaku Station [Gakueki] is famous and is gaining popularity among test-takers. Amulet bags are set to five entrance tickets. The entrance ticket printed vertically at the right end of the entrance ticket and the character of "Study" at the school station can be read as "Entrance", and "5" cards are used to give "Entrance" and luck. I have. 850 yen per set. Since the current station is an unmanned station, it can be purchased at Tokushima Station and major JR stations in Shikoku.

The best place to know the Awa Washi paper, which has a history of more than 1300 years. In addition to being able to tour the traditional process of making hand-made Japanese paper in the work space, you can challenge the experience of making postcards and half-paper paper twice a day in an experience-training space located in a corner of the work area. There is a museum shop on the first floor that sells handmade Japanese paper products made in this workshop, and various exhibitions are held as galleries in the exhibition room and multi-purpose hall on the second floor. Once a month, you can also experience indigo dyeing, so if you are interested, please contact us.

Around the area near the peak of Mt. Koetsu, about 1200 strains of azaleas grow, and are designated as a national natural monument as an onazaleas community in Funakubo. The entire surface of the mountain is stained red from mid-May to late May.

The temple, where the main temple stands with a deep mountain on its back, is enshrined as the main statue of the Yakushi Nyorai, carved by Hiroho Daishi to remove his evils when he was 42 years old. The temple was given its name because it was struck by this place of the clear mountain stream, and the temple was established for 17 days by building a tutor on top of the eight-tatami rock, which was further into the mountains from the present precinct, and planted five-colored wisteria. During the Heian period, it flourished as a Dojo for Shingon Esoteric Buddhism, and was lined with Shichido Gage, but was destroyed by the soldiers of Chōsōgabe during the Warring States period. During the Yanbao Year (1673-81), the Nanzan Zen master of the Rinzai sect was re-emerged and changed to the current sect. The pilgrimage road from the ocatabiwa to the 12th place is famous as a difficult place.

A terraced field of masonry said to have been built more than 300 years ago. There are about 30 steps of stone walls all over the mountainskin, which is about 150m high and about 300m wide. It is one of the important cultural landscape areas of the country, and is one of the "Nihon no Sato 100". In April, Shivazakura is blooming and the gorgeous landscape is seen, and it is lit up on Saturday and Sunday in mid-December. On the day of light up there is free transfer from Misato Hotaru-kan.

梅の産地美郷では、2月中旬から梅の花が次々と咲き始める。3月までの開花期間中は「梅の花まつり」と称され、梅が彩る風景を目当てに多くの人が集まり、賑やかな雰囲気に包まれる。

吉野川の支流川田川の中流にあり、周囲は水田も少なくカワニナなどほたるの幼虫の餌が豊富。緑泥片岩からなる美しい山合いの清流に、ほたるが多数発生する。観賞できる種類はゲンジボタル、ヘイケボタル、ヒメボタル、オオマドホタル、オバボタル。村をあげて保護運動を行っている。

夏は冷たく10℃前後、冬は暖かく20℃以上になるという異常水温現象で県の天然記念物に指定されている江川の湧水源。水温が変化する原因は諸説あるが今もって謎のまま。冬には水温と気温の温度差で湯気が発生する不思議な光景が見られるかも。全国名水百選にも選出されている。

Sports facilities that aim to eliminate daily stress and lack of exercise in swimming and training. There is a 25m pool, a children's pool, a jacuzzi, and a sleeping bath.