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22nd Bando pilgrimage temple with a 1543 thatched hall bearing the Satake clan crest, an Important Cultural Property

Mountain shrine on Kanasa known for the Isode Grand Festival held once every 72 years, Japan's rarest interval

Ancient Hachiman shrine revered as guardian of Ota Castle by the Satake clan who claimed Minamoto descent

Tenmangu built by the Satake clan in their castle town to enshrine Michizane as a symbol of martial and scholarly arts

Gorge of dragon deity legend spanned by mainland Japan's longest 375m bridge, also famous for 100m bungee jumping

Distinguished Soto temple whose Satake clan mausoleum narrates the rise and fall of medieval Hitachi warrior culture

National Historic Site manor where Mitsukuni retired in 1690 to devote himself to compiling the Dai Nihon Shi

Rare ancient shrine enshrining Ame-no-Kagaseo, the star deity of the Kuniyuzuri myth, one of Japan's few stellar worship sites

Soto Zen temple where Tokugawa Mitsukuni established the mausoleum of his wife Taihime of the Kaga Maeda clan

Ancient Jodo temple rooted in the Satake castle town, its temple lands secured under the patronage of Mitsukuni