8 Sights in Ena, Japan (with Map and Images)

Iwamura Castle was located in the southeastern area of Mino Province in Japan. Its ruins can be found in the modern-day municipal subdivision of Iwamura, in Ena, Gifu Prefecture. Along with Takatori Castle in Nara and Bitchu-Matsuyama Castle in Okayama, it is regarded as one of the three best mountain castles, and at an elevation of 721 meters above sea level, it is one of the highest in Japan.

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Chokokuji Temple is a temple of the Soto sect located in Oimachi, Ena City, Gifu Prefecture. The name of the mountain is Mt. Inari. It is the fourth temple of the Ena 33 Kannon Shrine and the 49th Yakushi Shrine in the Chubu region.

Wikipedia: 長国寺 (恵那市) (JA)

The Nakasendo Hiroshige Museum of Art is a public museum in Ena, Gifu Prefecture. Centered on Utagawa Hiroshige, the museum has a collection of about 1,500 ukiyo-e prints by Utagawa Kuniyoshi and others. Ukiyo-e prints are vulnerable to heat and light and cannot be exhibited permanently, so they are open to the public as special exhibitions throughout the year, focusing on collections such as the Tanaka and Yoshimura collections.

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Tozenji Temple is a temple of the Yellow Wood sect whose main shrine is the eleven-sided, thousand-handed Kannon Bodhisattva located in Oimachi, Ena City, Gifu Prefecture. The name of the mountain is Mt. Huihi. Ena 33 Kannon Shrine No. 1.

Wikipedia: 東禅寺 (恵那市) (JA)

Ōi-juku was the forty-sixth of the sixty-nine stations of the Nakasendō connecting Edo with Kyoto in Edo period Japan. It is located in former Mino Province in what is now part of the city of Ena, Gifu Prefecture, Japan. From Ōi-juku to the next post town, Ōkute-juku, there are 13 hills to pass over. Travellers using the Shitakaidō (下街道) often used Ōi-juku, too, as they travelled on to Makiganetsui (槙ヶ根追) afterwards.

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Entsuji is a temple of the Soto sect in Nagashima -cho, Ena City, Gifu Prefecture. The mountain is Mt. Chosho. The Holy Kannon Bodhisattva is the principal. Ena 33 Kannon Sacred Ground No. 33. There is also Entsuji in Yamaokamachihara in Ena City, but it has nothing to do with our temple.

Wikipedia: 圓通寺 (恵那市) (JA)

Choeiji Temple is a temple of the Soto sect located in Nakano, Nagashima-cho, Ena, Gifu Prefecture, with the main shrine of the Bodhisattva Seikanseon. The name of the mountain is Mt. Hochang. Ena 33 Kannon Shrine No. 2.

Wikipedia: 長栄寺 (恵那市) (JA)

Takachigayajo (鷹萩谷城, Takachigayajo) was a castle in Japan located in the absence of Nobata Castle in Oimachi, Ena City, Gifu Prefecture, Japan. Ena City Designated Historic Site ("Oi Castle Ruins"). The name of the historic site designation is "Oi Castle Ruins", but another castle site on the site of Oi Elementary School in Ena City in the southeast is generally considered to be Oi Castle.

Wikipedia: 鷹撃谷城 (JA)