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Where Yamato Takeru's spirit alighted as a white bird after his eastern campaign — Ichinomiya of Izumi Province, classified Myojin Taisha in the Engishiki and Imperial Major Shrine in 1871

Guardian shrine of the World Heritage Mozu kofun district, beside Emperor Nintoku's tomb — celebrated for its grand autumn Futon-daiko festival since the Edo period

Adjacent to the Nintoku Mausoleum, this museum surveys Sakai's history from UNESCO World Heritage kofun to Sen no Rikyu and Yosano Akiko

Zen temple where Sen no Rikyu trained — memorial towers of Rikyu and Takeno Joo stand in this tea pilgrimage site

The chief tutelary shrine of Sakai, affectionately known as "Otera-san" — said to have been founded by Empress Jingu in honor of Shiotsuchi-no-Oji at the heart of the merchant city

The birthplace of tea master Sen no Rikyu, where a camellia well survives as a historic trace of the man who transformed the wabi-cha aesthetic

A cultural center dedicated to Sakai's two great figures — Sen no Rikyu and Yosano Akiko — offering hands-on tea ceremony and Meiji literary exhibits

The residence site of Takeno Joo, Rikyu's master, the renga poet who refined wabi-suki and passed the aesthetic to his disciple

The world's largest tomb by area at 486m — surpassing the Great Pyramid of Khufu, and a UNESCO World Heritage Site

A massive 300m-plus keyhole tumulus with a triple moat, one of the largest in the Mozu group and designated an imperial mausoleum reference site