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Twenty-sixth temple of the Bandō 33 — Kiyotaki Kannon, traditionally founded by Prince Shōtoku and restored by the Hossō priest Tokuitsu, a tranquil sanctuary at the southern foot of Mt. Tsukuba

A rural historic site in the hills said to be where the poet Ono no Komachi spent her final years, with views of Mount Tsukuba

An ancient shrine enshrining Takemikazuchi from Kashima Jingu since the early Heian era — sailors on Lake Kasumigaura prayed here for safe passage

A Tendai temple founded in 790 at the foot of Mount Tsukuba by a disciple of Saicho — sutra mounds confirm Heian Buddhist flourishing

Said to have been founded by Kukai in 807 — the 26th station of the Bando 33 Kannon pilgrimage in Tsuchiura

A center of Nichiren Lotus faith in southern Hitachi Province founded around 1400 — its O-eshiki lantern procession lives on today

A Jodo Pure Land nembutsu hall on a hill overlooking Lake Kasumigaura, founded in the Muromachi period — held memorial rites for Kasumigaura fishermen

Tsuchiura's chief tutelary shrine, invited from Tsurugaoka Hachimangu in the Kamakura period — Tsuchiura bayashi music offered at its autumn festival

A distinguished Rinzai temple in Tsuchiura founded by a Zen monk returning from China in the Kamakura period

Ruins of the 'Turtle Castle of Kasumigaura' — two surviving Edo-period turrets mark this Ibaraki prefectural historic site