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A roadside station in the mountain village of Otaki, which connects Sotobo and Uchibo. There are many Yamasato-like materials such as shiitake, chestnuts, stalagmites, and boar. In addition to selling at a direct sales shop, you can also enjoy local ingredients such as curry with wild boar menchi (1000 yen) and ramen with plenty of bamboo shoots (620 yen) at the cafeteria. They are also enriched with souvenir items such as rich ice cream and bamboo work, local sake and sweets. * Lunch can be booked for up to about 50 people, and there is also a reservation-only menu for groups using plenty of festival sushi and seasonal ingredients, "Sato no Ugozen" (1200 yen ~).

A shop specializing in raw yuba, which is attached to the factory, where you can sample freshly made yuba and jokudoki tofu. All products are made from domestic soybeans and handmade. The main raw yuba for sashimi has a soft texture with a unique flavor and sweetness of domestic soybeans. It is unusual to have raw yuba made from domestic blue soybeans and black soybeans, as well as yellow soybeans. Popular tofu that allows you to fully enjoy the sweetness and richness of soy without adding soy sauce. You can visit the factory until 13:00 (free, check required). You can also eat yuba and soba noodles.

There are about 1000 items on permanent display, including materials such as the station name plates of the Kihara Line and the Sotobo Line, which operated from the early Showa period, as well as moving railway models. There are also two kinds of giant dioramas, the N-gauge and the HO-gauge, which represented from rural landscapes to urban landscapes. You can see the largest diorama in the prefecture, where up to 11 trains run, at a distance of within reach.

Renovation of the Tozo-built merchant house, which displays the tools of old life and other items under the theme of "business and living in a castle town."

An all-weather glass house garden over 4500 square meters. Throughout the year, you can also see, touch, and taste about 400 herbs and vegetables grown by sticking to the soil. In the garden, there are restaurants using fresh herbs and vegetables, seeds, safe seedling shops grown from old trees, original herbal products, and more than 200 herbal shops and aromatic balm shops. Pets OK, with dog runs. You can also drink fresh herbal tea with a herbal garden barbecue or herb picking, and you can enjoy a variety of things such as Agatonbe City.

Total area 61ha. A forest park spread over lush green hills. Facilities to interact with nature, such as a campsite and a wild bird observation hall, are set up in the park, and there is also a bamboo arts center where you can experience the processing and crafting of bamboo, like Otaki-cho, where crafts using bamboo have been thriving since ancient times. From the promenade and observation deck located along the ridge, you can get a full view of the town of Otaki.

A representative residential building (important cultural property) located in the Kubo district, Otaki-cho, which still retains the image of the castle town period. It is the residence of the Watanabe family, an Australian merchant who used to keep the Otaki clan's royal money, and the building is a two-story hipped building built in Kaei 2 (1849). The books, desks, and so on are left intact, telling the old-fashioned state of the merchant house in the late Edo period. Inside is private.

The museum was built on the site of the Otaki Castle Honmaru, imitating a three-tiered, four-story tower tower. The museum provides historical materials on the castle, samurai society and other items from the medieval period to the early modern period of Boso, as well as cultural objects of the Sōnan region. It displays weapons and weapons such as armor and swords, as well as costumes, household items and old documents. Take one hour.

In the morning market, which is held every month on the day of 5 and 10, you can get fresh mountain and sea good from the neighborhood of Otaki at a discount.

A Pintaro direct sale store that handles special strings along Route 128. They are vacuum-packed one by one so that they do not escape the taste. Among them, secret series such as Ajiden Secret Dried and Hokke Secret Dried, which are pickled in special secret sauce, are very popular. In addition, "Easy Cooking Series in the Range" was very well received. The products are favored by busy housewives, including Kanburi-ni Taro, Kinme-ni Taro, Saba Miso-ni, Silver Salmon Yaki Taro and Saba-yaki Taro.