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Founded in 593 CE by Prince Hachiko, the Three Mountains of Dewa are Japan's foremost Shugendo pilgrimage, symbolizing past, present, and future in the Journey of Rebirth.

The oldest five-story pagoda in Tohoku, a National Treasure rebuilt in 1372, standing in solemn grandeur amid ancient cedar trees along the sacred approach.

Dewa Province's highest-ranking shrine enshrined at the 1,984-meter summit of Mt. Gassan, symbolizing the present in the Dewa Sanzan and accessible only July to September.

One of the four Yudono head temples said to have been founded by Kukai, housing the sokushinbutsu of Shinnyokai Shonin and a hall donated by Kasuga no Tsubone.

A 10th-century Soto Zen temple revered nationwide as the Dragon God for maritime safety, with a grand five-story pagoda built in 1883.

Founded in 1877 on the former castle keep site to honor four generations of the Sakai clan, Shonai domain lords including one of Tokugawa's Four Heavenly Kings.

The former seat of the Sakai clan's 140,000-koku Shonai domain from 1622, now Tsuruoka Park and famous for 600 cherry trees in spring.

The only surviving domain school building in Tohoku, a National Historic Site founded in 1805 and known for its progressive self-directed study curriculum based on Ogyu Sorai's classical learning.

A Yudono head temple enshrining the sokushinbutsu of Tetsumonkai after 3,000 days of austerity, also the setting of the Akutagawa Prize novel Gassan.

The final destination of the Dewa Sanzan pilgrimage, symbolizing the future, where a hot-spring boulder serves as the deity itself under the vow of sacred silence also honored by Basho.