Best Architectures In Mitoyo-shi

A Rare Urashima ShrineKamonokoshi

On the other side of the beach where Urashima Taro helped a turtle, there is a small island named Maruyama Island you cannot walk into only at low tide. There are a statue of Urashima Taro and Urashima Shrine.

The Shrine for Children on the Setouchi Sea whose Door Opens only Once a YearTsushima Jinja Shrine

They enshrine the god for children's health and growth. Floating 250m from the seashore on the Stouchi Sea, it's gate is opened only once a year. Many people all over Japan visit this big event to pray for the children's good health.

A Post Office Where The Letters Gather Beyond The Time & SpaceMissing Post Office

Missing Post Office receive the letters written for yourselves in the future or someone you can't see any more. It's one of the art project, and exhibits the letters without addresses to be read by someone you don't know.◎5min walk from a port. It was used as a real post office. You can send a letter with no address and read exhibited letters here.

Retro & Photogenic Japan's First Sailor SchoolAwashima Ocean Memorial Hall

It's a Japan's first school for sailor (closed in1987). A nostalgic pale green building is now a memorial hall with exhibitions such as ship models.◎No entrance fee. 3min walk from a port and it's a symbol of Awashima.