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A hiking course that connects Jōreno Waterfall ~ Yukeno. The world of "Izu no Odoko" can be realized, such as "The Road of the Spelling", which appears at the beginning of the novel "Izu no Odoko", followed by the old Amagi Tunnel where 19-year-old Yasunari Kawabata actually met the dancers. The Motoya River flows along the road, and there are also wasabita fields and beautiful waterfalls. If you enter it on your right from the Inoue Yasushi Literature Monument, there is also a forest-side promenade of 2.6km round trip to Tarōsugi (Natural Monument, Shizuoka Prefecture). Buses on this section can stop at other than the bus stop if you raise your hand. I want to use it when I'm tired to walk.

Two mobile homes, a small private campsite with eight lots of tent sites; in the middle of the Izu Peninsula, close to the Jōreno Falls famous for "Amagi-kōki", and unique experience classrooms are also being held, such as the Stone Kiln Pizza Grilling Experience 2000 yen (reservation required).

You can have a wasabi harvest experience, a wasabi pickling processing experience (1080 yen each, reservations required), and a wasabi soft 300 yen with raw wasabi topping grated in front of you is a must.

With the "Showa no Mori Kaikan" as its core facilities, a natural resting forest that makes use of the rich primeval forest of Amagi, the Amagi Green Garden (Rhododendron/Yamano grass), the information building of the forest, the Izu Museum of Modern Literature (Yasunari Kawabata, Yasushi Inoue and others 120 people, entrance 300 yen, there are plenty of attractions around the area such as 100 yen for a child. In addition to shops and mountain restaurants, wasabi soft from "Amagi Wasabi no Sato" and shiitake croquettes from "Takenoko Kasan" are also popular.

A direct sales shop on the roadside station, Amagi-go, where there are many items handmade by local moms such as pickled wasabi, sweets, and crafts. Top-selling Shiitake croquettes and wasabi-leaf croquettes (11-May holidays) for 120 yen each.

A stone tunnel opened in 1905. The interior, with a total length of 445.5m, was cool even in the summer, and the novel "Izu no Odoko" says that "the cold drop was falling down." it is said that the teahouse where the dancer stayed in the rain was near the entrance of the tunnel. It is also possible to drive by car in the tunnel, but large cars are impassable.

Facilities located within the roadside station "Amagi-gai". It exhibits materials such as Yasunari Kawabata and Yasushi Inoue, including raw manuscripts by 120 modern Japanese literary writers who are closely related to Izu. In particular, there are many exhibits on "Izu no Odoko", including raw manuscripts and first-edition books by Yasunari Kawabata.

A nature park with an area of 50,4072 sq m, adjacent to the roadside station Amagi. Flowers representing Amagi, such as purple azalea, ebine, and water birch, bloom. Among them, the rhododendron garden is stunning. It is a masterpiece from mid-April to late May, when 500 species and 13,000 trees are planted and the flowers are seen. There is a promenade in the park where you can walk up a gentle slope and enjoy the seasonal flowers.

Facilities located within the roadside station, Amagi. There is the Forest Information Center, which provides a commentary on the plants and animals that inhabit Amagi, and the Izu Museum of Modern Literature, which displays materials from about 120 writers and literary scholars who have a connection to Izu and Amagi.

The literary monument, which stands in a tussle in a cedar forest along the old road, is carved with a horizontal relief of Yasunari Kawabata and the famous opening part of "Izu no Odoko".