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Traditionally a site of victory prayer by Minamoto no Yoshiie, and the starting point of the serpent festival

A temple guarding Nikko Kaido travelers, home to the nationally designated serpent festival Jagamaita

A 15-meter straw serpent parades through town every May 5th in the 400-year Jagamaita festival

A Heian-period Shingon temple with a miniature Shikoku pilgrimage circuit, preserving Kobo Daishi's teachings

A Muromachi-period shrine to Michizane with a stroking cow and brush mound, beloved by exam-takers in Oyama

A Soto Zen temple founded around 1250 as the Oyama clan's ancestral temple, conveying medieval Shimotsuke history

The chief guardian of Oyama founded by the Oyama clan in the Kamakura period, with a grand July Gion Festival

Named for its lute-like silhouette — one of Tochigi's largest keyhole-shaped tombs

A great chieftain's tomb of ancient Shimotsuke, its rear mound crowned by a shrine to Marishiten

Japan's only shrine to the god of cooking, where chefs nationwide pray for culinary skill at the knife mound