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A large smelter site built in the year of the Meiji 28 (1895), which had modern modern equipment but closed after only a year and a half; remains of masonry on the slopes of the mountain.

The site of a silver mine, one of the largest in Japan, which was mined for about 400 years from 1526 to 1923. It is not only the site of the mine, where the site of mining and the work site for processing silver remains, but also the mining town spread in the valley at its base, as well as several castle sites where the offensive and defense over Mt. It is registered to include the port of Tomogaura and the port of Okidomari and the port city of Onsenzu, which are loaded and unloaded with silver ore, as well as the highway connecting them. After mining silver ore in this area, a large amount of high-quality silver was efficiently produced by a refining technique called the ash blowing method, so it was called Soma silver in the village of Samamura where the silver mountain is located.

One of the gait (mine shaft) known as Ojikiyama (Ojikiyama) in the Edo shogunate. While currently being published, the one who can pass through is this Ryūgenji-mō. 157m, which is about one third of the total length of 600m, has been published. In the technology of the time, the distance for the digger (miner) a day was about 30cm. The remains of the flea at the time remain on the wall of the mine shaft. The area has been made a country-designated historic site as the "Ishiki Ginzan Site" and is also registered as the World Heritage Site "Ishiki Ginzan Site and its Cultural Landscape".

In the Edo period, the museum stands on the site of the Daikansho, which reigned over the Ishimi Ginzan. The name of the palace is derived from the "Imo-dōkan", who encouraged the cultivation of sweet potatoes and avoided famine. The building is the former Choma County Hall of late Meiji architecture. The main gate and the main building are 12 years of culture (1815) and are of the Daijishō. In the hall, the work of the Daikansho and the history of the town of Omori will be introduced, focusing on materials related to successive Daikanshi, including Imo Daikanshi. Highlights can also be seen in the overhead view of the townscape, which condenses 500 years of history, and the Chronicles of Ishikami Ginzan. There are also planned exhibitions and courses and events held by curators. The museum shop sells books and ore specimens related to Ishigami Ginzan.

The residence of the Kawashima family, who were landowners; the house, which was built in the early 1800 s, was restored and opened to the public; and the character of the samurai residence, such as the arrangement of buildings and gardens, is well conveyed.

A town at the center of Ishimi Ginzan, which was a direct district of the shogunate during the Edo period. Although the mine was closed in 1923, a townscape with red-tile and earthen-walled houses along a trickle of the Yinzan River remains in good condition, and it has been designated as a Traditional Buildings Preservation District. It is quaint, lined with white-walled old travel baskets and merchant houses.

高野山真言宗の寺院。見どころは本堂の向かい側にある左右の岩窟内に250体づつ安置した五百羅漢像。中央には釈迦三尊を祭る。亡くなった坑夫を弔って、明和3年(1766)まで25年ほどかけて作ったとされる。当時から、五百羅漢にお参りすれば500体の顔の中に亡くなった親や我が子を見つけることができると言われ、今でもお参りが絶えない。本堂内では創建当時から、本尊さんの下をくぐる「胎内くぐり」も体験でき、その先の本堂裏には縁切り羅漢がある。縁切りと、縁結びの両縁参りの寺院である。

二代目銀山奉行竹村丹後守が大檀那となり開いた寺。境内には奉行や代官の墓があり、元禄時代に再建されたという東照宮には、家康から12代までの歴代将軍の位牌が祭られている。勝源寺本堂には極彩色格天井、隠れキリシタン地蔵やマリア観音も見どころである。

龍源寺間歩を通り抜けた栃畑谷に鎮座する神社で、鉱山の守り神である金山彦命を祭る。銀山を支配した代々の権力者の崇敬を受け、境内には豪壮な社殿や苔むした石段が残されている。

銀山支配をめぐって争った大内氏と毛利氏の崇敬を受けた神社。文化9年(1812)に再建された拝殿には天井に鳴き龍が描かれている。