9 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 is a Soto Zen temple located in Oi Town, Ena City, Gifu Prefecture. Its mountain name is Inariyama. It is the fourth of the Ena Thirty-three Kannon Sacred Sites and an auxiliary temple of the Chubu Forty-nine Yakushi Sacred Sites.

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Ryugoji Temple is a temple of the Rinzai sect of Myoshinji (Ryusen-ha) located in Akechi-cho, Ena City, Gifu Prefecture. The name of the mountain is Daming Mountain. It is known as the Bodhi Temple of the Akechi Toyama clan of Hatamoto.

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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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Ryusoin is a Jodo sect temple located at 1450 Iwamura-cho, Ena City, Gifu Prefecture. The stone chamber with a thousand Buddha statues, designated as a historic site by Ena City, is managed by Ryusoin.

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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.

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Entsuji Temple is a Soto Zen temple located in Nagashima-cho, Ena City, Gifu Prefecture. The mountain name is Choshoyama. It should be noted that there is another Entsuji Temple in Hara, Yamaoka-cho, Ena City, but it is not related to this temple.

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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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Choeiji is a Soto Zen temple located in Nakano, Nagashima-cho, Ena City, Gifu Prefecture, with the Holy Kannon as its principal deity. The mountain name is Hochozan. It is the second of the Ena Thirty-three Kannon Sacred Sites.

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