Sunrise Izumo Sleeper Train

Izumo Taisha is located in the city of Izumo in Shimane prefecture. It is one of the oldest, most important and famous shrines in japan. If you visit the shrine, you will have great luck when it comes to your love life and personal relationships. This shrine has been worshipped since ancient times as the gathering place of many deities.

Inasa Beach is locaed 1 kilometer west of Izumo Taisha. It is setting for one of the ancient legentds
Inasa Beach is locaed 1 kilometer west of Izumo Taisha. It is setting for one of the ancient legentds of the area. The place is well-known for its magnificent sunsets. In October of the lunar calendar, deities from all over Japan gather in Izumo and are welcomed here on this beach. This only happens in Izumo.

This is the 700M front approach to the entrance IzumoTaish. On this street, there are many shops such as restaurants and cafes which serve famous local food “Izumo Soba” or “Izumo Zenzai”, souvenir shops which sell local specialty goods.

Izumo Soba & Izumo Zenzai
One of the features of Izumosoba is that it looks darker than ordinary soba.Cold soba is called Wariko soba. Warikoba is in a three-tiered red round bowl, and you pour soba soup into that bowl before eating.Warm soba is called Kamaage soba and is said to have originated around Izumo Taisha Shrine. As with Wariko soba, you can add soup and adjust the taste. How about “Zenzai” for dessert after a lunch? Izumo Zenzai is a zenzai that contains red and white rice cakes and mochi, and is said to make the bond between parents and children and couples happy.

Matsue Castle was built in 1611, and its existing castle tower is one of the remaining 12 castles nationwide and is designated as a national treasure. The existing castle tower is a very valuable castle tower that was built in the Edo period or earlier and has been preserved to the present without breaking. You can enjoy to go sightseeing the castle and the town from the pleasure boat on the Horikawa moat that surrounds the castle, stroll around the samurai residences and souvenir shops , and eat matcha and Japanese sweets.

Minami is a pure Japanese-style inn that inherits the tradition of the long-established inn "Minamikan" on the shores of Lake Shinji, which has been in business for 130 years. There is a large public bath, an open-air bath with a view, and a casual hand bath and foot bath, so you can enjoy baths with different tastes. For meals, you can enjoy seafood from the Sea of Japan and seasonal ingredients for dinner, and more than 50 kinds of Japanese and Western treat buffets for breakfast.
Heal your tiredness at Tamatsukuri Onsen, a hot spring with beautiful skin that is known as the oldest hot spring in Japan and makes your skin moist and smooth.

The Kurayoshi White Wall Warehouses prospered as a castle town during the Muromachi period and as a Jinya town during the Edo period. This area has been selected as an important traditional buildings preservation district of the country, and now it is an area where you can walk around the city with stores in townhouses and storehouses. Along the Tamagawa River, there are white wall warehouses and red roof tiles, so you can enjoy the atmosphere of a time trip.

The throw-in hall is the deepest building of Sanbo-ji Temple in the mountains of Mt. Mitoku, and is a national treasure and a Japanese heritage site. Sanbo-ji is a temple built 1300 years ago for training in the mountains. Nageiredou is a hall built on a precipitous cliff and is said to be the most dangerous national treasure in Japan.
You cannot enter the temple, you can only worship and photograph the entrance hall from the end of the worship mountain trail. The spectacular view after a fairly steep climb is impressive, but if you don't have enough time for sightseeing, you can see the entrance hall far from the foot of the mountain.

isasa Onsen is one of the world's leading radioactive springs containing high concentrations of radon, and has the effect of activating metabolism and enhancing immunity and natural healing power. Ryokan Ohashi is a beautiful Japanese-style inn that has been designated as a national tangible cultural property. The hot springs are completely free-flowing hot springs with their own source and fountain, and you can enjoy an open-air bath.

Sand dunes are hills made of wind-carried sand. It is a miracle hill created by sand and wind over many years. It shows a completely different view depending on the season and time, and you can feel the grandeur of nature.
The contrast between the unobstructed sandy land, the meaning of blue and the sky is very beautiful and moving.