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The museum adjacent to the Lotus Temple Pond Park. Introducing the history of Fujieda, which has been the center of the Shita Plain since ancient times, using materials and excavated items from archaeological sites. It is characterized by the exhibition following the period from the primordial period, and introduces it along themes such as a diorama that recreates the life of the Shita Plain during the Jōmon period, the appearance of Fujieda-juku and Tanaka-jo on the Tokaido, and the history of modernization after the Meiji era. It takes 40 minutes.

The park is centered around the Rengshaiji Pond, which is about 1.5km around the area. Boating and athletic play equipment are also full of flower attractions, such as wisteria in late April-early May and lotus in mid-July-mid-August.

A group of burial mounds built on a mountain at an altitude of 110m in the Renha Temple Pond Park. Circular mounds and mounds of 10 to 18m in each side from the 4th to 6th century, 28 mounds are densely arranged. It is unusual for a group of burial mounds centered on the old period of the 4th to 5th centuries, and has become a designated historic site in Shizuoka Prefecture as an important archaeological site due to the fact that few wheel stones have been excavated in eastern Japan.

A highway with a total length of about 28km, connecting the Katsugusa Bridge from the site of Sagara Castle in Makinohara City over the former Tōkaidō in Fujieda City. It was maintained by Yasuji Tanuma, the old man of the Edo shogunate and the lord of the Sagara clan. A stone monument by local volunteers is built at the confluence of the Tanuma Kaido and the former Tōkaidō.

The remains of the Nara-Heian period Suruga-kun Shita-gun government office [Ssuganokuni-shidagunga] (government office) discovered in Mikogaya in 1977. In one corner, there is Shita County Government Office Museum (Fee: free entry, time: 9-17).

The ruins of the lower house of the Tanaka Domain (about 40,000 koku) feudal lord, where the history of Tanaka Castle is remembered, such as the restoration of the garden and the relocation of the architecture related to Tanaka Castle. It takes 30 minutes.

Located at the entrance to the east of the Tokaido Okabe-juku, Daijabai Kashiya is a travel basket built in the Edo period Tenpo 7 (1836), and is a national registered tangible cultural property. Now it is being maintained as a historical museum, and the house, the kitchen, and the guests are reproduced in the atmosphere of the time, and you can also experience the dressing of the trip. The museum displays items from the Edo period to the early Showa period, as well as the history of Okabe-juku. In addition, there are also the goods house Kashibaya, the gallery Namako wall, and the restaurant Ichisho-an.

A famous waterfall in Shizuoka Prefecture that flows upstream of the Seto River that runs through Fujieda City. It is a great waterfall with a height of 70m on the middle of Mount Takane, and is known by the legend of the sad love and known as the "Okun no Waterfall". The promenade is maintained to the vicinity of the waterhole, and you can enjoy the four seasons, including fresh green in spring, fresh in summer, and autumn leaves.

A day-trip bathing facility using natural hot springs containing about half the concentration of seawater is also provided. In addition to inner baths, outdoor baths are popular. They are also effective for restoring fatigue and beautiful skin.

A Japanese-Western confectionery store that has been running for 110 years in Yaizu. The signboard product is "Katsuo Sabre" (1404 yen with 10 toro boxes), which was devised as "a souvenir to bring a long time with a Yaizu-like motif." the package, which looks like a toro box carrying fish in the fishing port, is also lovely, a beloved treat for more than 35 years. In addition to plain, flavors such as chocolate and cherry, tea and cheese depending on the season. Other efforts are also being made to develop new products, such as "Yaizu no Miso Manju", which has been familiar with fishermen for a long time, and "Amavier Manju", which hopes to destroy the plague.