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Unesco Intangible Cultural Heritage, famous as the "Japan's Noisy Festival", introduces the Ishitori Festival, a nationally designated important intangible folk cultural property; exhibits gorgeous late-Edo festival cars with a total peony carving; and the building is a national registered Tangible Cultural Property.

In Gyeongsang 6 (1601), Honda Tadakatsu, who was one of the Tokugawa Shitenno and became the first Kuwana feudal lord, along with the castle town of Wari, carried out the extended maintenance of the castle. Kuwana Castle was once credited as "Ogijō" and "Kaido no Meijō", but it was broken after the Meiji Restoration because it came to the shogunate in the wake of the Boshin War. The site of the castle was maintained as a Kukhua Park in 1928, and has beautiful cherry blossoms and azaleas, and is a familiar place for citizens to relax. Also in the park is the Zhenkokumori Shrine, which enshrines Matsudaira Sadozuna (koku) and Matsudaira Sadanobu (Raku-gō), and in the vicinity is the restored Banryū-ryū (a two-tiered tower with the roof tiles of the dragon, the guardian deity of the voyage. Utagawa Hiroshige) is also depicted in the "Tōkaidō Fifty-three-year Kuwana". Pets are not allowed to be free-range and use their manners.

It is a lawn square built on the site of Sannomaru in Meijo, and a bronze statue of Tadakatsu Honda is built at the entrance. Tadakatsu was counted as one of the Tokugawa Shitenno, and became Kuwana Castle in Gyeongsang 6 (1601), and undertook a major remodeling of the town, which was described as "Gyeongsang no Chōtō".

Combined playground equipment, lawn plazas, foot rowing boats, etc. can be used, and it is a park that is used as a place for recreation for local residents made up of plantings, etc.

At the mouth of the Ibi River, the site of a watari on the Tōkaidō, which used to be connected by a boat between Shichiri (about 28km) to Atsuta. The "Ise Kuniichi no Torii" stands today as the eastern gateway of Ise Province.

Banryu is a symbol of Kuwana, the town of the estuary built facing Shichiri Watari in Kawaguchi-cho. Faithfully restored Kuwana's symbol, which was once surely seen by people traveling along the Tōkaidō. The famous Utagawa Hiroshige's ukiyo-e "Tōkaidō Fifty-Thirteen" also symbolically depicts this building to represent the famous castle on the sea and the reputed Kuwana. A "banryū" is a dragon in a crouched state before it ascends to heaven. The dragon is widely used in China as a holy beast in charge of water as a decorative motif for temples and mausoleums. It is also believed that Banryū-kō was set up here as a patron deity of the voyage.

The residence, which was built in 1913 (1913), was opened to the public as the new residence of Seiroku Nidai, a Kuwana businessman who was called King Sanbayashi. The Yōkan, designed by Josiah Condor, the Englishman who designed the Kōraku-kan, and the Wōkan, which is connected to it, are national important cultural treasures, and the Ikeizumi Kaikyō-style garden, which stretches ahead of it, also has the national prestigious designation.

Kuwana-juku is the 42nd post of the 53rd Tōkaidō. It was also the castle town of Kuwana Domain, and was a large inn in the late Edo period, with two main houses, four side-by-side, and 120 bar-go houses. It was connected to Atsuta-juku, where the Atsuta Shrine is located, by a seaway, Shichiri, on Ise Bay, and the Tōfuna at Kuwana was also bustling as an entrance to the Ise Shrine. At present, the Torii and night lights of Ise Shrine Ichigami stand at the site of the Watari of Shichiri, and nearby, the Banryū-kō, which celebrates the restored guardian deity of the voyage, and the Ōtsuka-honkami, which operates as an inn, remain. If you wander along the outer moat of Kuwana Castle (Kuhua Park) and the Tokaido through the city from the site of Shichiri's Watari, you can feel the appearance of the post-stop town on the "History-Talking Park", the signpost, Yata-position, etc.

In the late 5th century, a shrine was built in the Imperial Palace of the Emperor Yuzhi. It is referred to as "Ose-sangba Otado-no-kake Otado-no-kake-no-kake-no-kake-no-kake-no-kake", and is also referred to as Kita-Ise-Daijingu. A shrine with a deep history that has received a strong respect from people all over the country, such as the fact that you always have to visit Tado Taisha Shrine. In addition, the white horse legend has been passed down as the "horse of the god who carries happiness", which is visited by worshipers who wish happiness throughout the year. It is held in the spring (May 4 and 5) by Todomatsuri and Raikuma Shrine. The Tado-style Bu Ma Festival is held in the fall (November 23).

Osugi, which is designated as a natural monument in Mie Prefecture, with a tree height of 30m and a trunk circumference of 9m, which is divided into two in a portion 2m above the ground; and a branch line extending as long as 5m each.