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Inuyama Yuen Station. Closest station to Inuyama Castle on the Meitetsu Line.
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Road to Inuyama Castle
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Kiso River with Inuyama Castle in the distance
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Inuyama Cultural History Museum犬山市文化史料館
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Inuyama Castle
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Karakuri Doll Museumからくり展示館
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Inuyama Castle
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Karakuri Doll MuseumThe karakuri dolls, set atop ornate floats, are controlled with strings.
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Haritsuna Shrine
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Entrance to Urakuen GardenThis garden has a few tea houses including one called Jo-an, a National Treasure. THe garden is close to Inuyama Castle and worth a visit. Admission 1,000 yen.

有楽苑
営業時間 9:00〜17:00(3/1〜7/14 ・ 9/1〜11/30)
9:00〜18:00(7/15〜8/31)
9:00〜16:00(12/1〜2/末日)
休日 無休   入場料 大人1,000円(呈茶別500円)
〒484−0081
愛知県犬山市御門先1
TEL 0568(61)4608
交通 名鉄犬山線犬山遊園下車徒歩7分
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Sanko Inari ShrineThe shrine provides a short cut to the castle.
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Urakuen Garden水琴窟
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Steps to castle gate
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Urakuen Garden tea ceremony house
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Steps to castle gate
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Inside Jo-an tea ceremony house, a National Treasure
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Reconstructed Honmaru Gate
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Jo-an tea ceremony house, a National Treasure. Built in 1618 by Oda Uraku, one of the greatest tea ceremony masters and younger brother of warlord Oda Nobunaga.Jo-an is one of Japan's three most famous tea ceremony houses. 如庵
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Inuyama Castle tower
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Castle tower
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Tea ceremony house
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Inuyama CastleNational Treasure
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Inside tea ceremony house
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Castle tower entrance
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Inside entrance
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More stairs
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Very steep
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Inside castle tower
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Road to Ooagata (Oagata) Shrine, famous for worshipping a rock shaped like the female sexual organ. It also holds the Honen Matsuri for a good harvest and fertility on the Sunday before March 15. 大県神社The shrine is the female counterpart to Tagata Shrine which worships the phallus in neighboring Komaki. The shrine is also noted for weeping plum blossoms.
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Oagata Shrine torii
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Top floorThe top floor was called the Koran Room.

高欄の間
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Honen Matsuri Festival banner depicting Hime-no-miya
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Portraits of castle lords and owners on top floorEleven generations of the Naruse Clan are shown here.
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Honen Matsuri Festival banner disguising the female organ.
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Ooagata Shrine grounds
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Top floor verandaThe fence is quite low and anyone can easily fall over...
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View of Kiso River
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Veranda
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View of castle grounds
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Himenomiya Shrine 姫之宮
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Kiso River
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Himenomiya Shrine 姫之宮
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Inuyama Castle roof
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Hime-no-miya Shrine 姫之宮
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On the right of Himenomiya Shrine, is a narrow, non-descript path going to the rear.
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There it is. The female rock. 女性器をかたどった石
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「姫石」(陰石)
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Oagata Shrine's Female Rock. 女性器をかたどった石
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Castle photo exhibition
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Oagata Shrine's Female Rock. Not a good likeness...「姫石」(陰石)
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More female rocks.
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Female Rock
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Meitetsu Inuyama Station, west entrance
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Mini torii. Pay money to crawl under the torii (looks like only a child can do it) for good luck.
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Lord's Room (Jodan no Ma)This room was used by the castle lord.
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Meitetsu Inuyama Station, east entrance
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Daikoku Ebisu Shrine 大黒恵比須神社
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O-sugisama Sacred Cedar TreeThis tree existed even before the castle was built over 650 years ago. It stood 24 meters tall, higher than the castle tower. It absorbed hits by lightning in place of the castle and also protected the castle tower from high winds. The tree then came to be worshipped as castle guardian.

The tree was severely damaged during the Ise-wan typhoon in 1959, and died in 1965.
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Inuyama International Sightseeing Center "Freude" 犬山国際観光センター“フロイデ”Near Meitestu Inuyama Station, a community center for international exchange, sports, and cultural activities.

犬山国際観光センター“フロイデ”
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Daikoku Ebisu Shrine 大黒恵比須神社
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Foundation of the Nana Magari-mon Gate
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Inuyama International Sightseeing Center "Freude"Restaurant
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Daikoku Ebisu Shrine 大黒恵比須神社
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Reconstructed turret永勝庵
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Inuyama International Sightseeing Center "Freude"
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Votive tablets
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Sister City Pledge between Inuyama and Davis, CaliforniaDisplayed at Inuyama International Sightseeing Center "Freude."
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Omikuji fortune
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Mikoshi portable shrine 神輿
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In the rear of Ooagata Jinja Shrine, a Plum Garden on a slope.
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Ooagata Jinja Shrine Plum Garden 梅園
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Japanese Immigrant's Assembly Hall at Meiji Mura. Originally built as a church next to Wailuku River in Hilo, Hawai'i at around 1889 by Okabe Jiro (岡部次郎), a Christian minister.
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Weeping white plum blossoms on a slope. 梅まつり
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Weeping white plum blossoms
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Weeping white plum blossoms 白梅
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Beautiful weeping pink plum blossoms
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Weeping pink plum blossoms
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View of shrine from plum garden
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Plum blossoms bloom in mid-March
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View of Komaki from the plum garden.
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View of Komaki from the plum garden.
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Mochi-nage area.
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Entertainment after the Honen Festival
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Meitetsu Railway Gakuden Station, nearest to Ooagata Shrine. 楽田駅(がくでん)
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Gakuden Station platform
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Gakuden Station platform
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