Izu Peninsula’s oldest shrine, with a history stretching back 2,400 years. The precincts are home to a sacred tree about 2,000 years old, and behind them Shirahama Beach opens onto a striking vermi...

An ancient Soto Zen Buddhism temple founded over 400 years ago.Venerated as the Daruma Daishi of Good Fortune for granting wishes such as business prosperity, household safety, traffic safety, acade...

Gyokusenji Temple in Kakisaki, Shimoda City, is a nationally designated historic site that preserves the story of Japan’s opening in the late Edo period. In 1856, when Townsend Harris arrived in Sh...

In 1854, when the Treaty of Peace and Amity between Japan and the United States was concluded and Commodore Perry’s squadron entered Shimoda to open the port, Ryosenji Temple served as Perry’s recep...

In 1854, during the negotiations that opened relations between Japan and the United States, this site served as the Japanese government’s headquarters and housed the Shimoda Bugyosho.Earlier, Katsu ...

This temple hosted the signing of the Treaty of Shimoda in 1854 after negotiations with Russian envoy, Vice Admiral Putyatin, and the following year it witnessed the exchange of ratifications for th...