Ishida-Tsutsumi（bank）
A history of Gyoda.It is a bank built on a natural levee by ‘Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s ‘army led by’ Ishida Mitsunari’ to attack Oshi Castle with water. It is estimated that the length of the embankment is about 1km, but most of it has been lost now, and 282m of the embankment area has been designated […]
Former Oshi Town Credit Union Bank（VERT CAFÉ）
It is a wooden Western-style bank built in 1922. The bank at the time of the establishment of a local financial institution, which was founded with the investment of tabi shop owners, supported the development of the tabi industry. It is also valuable as one of the few Western-style wooden buildings in the city. Currently, […]
Minamikawara Stone Stupa
The two large monuments located in the precincts of Kanpukuji Temple are known as representative itabi in the middle of the Kamakura period, and were designated as a national historic site in 1928. The plate monument inscribed in the 2nd year of Bun’o (1261) has a seed called Kiriku, which represents Amida Nyorai, and a […]
Jizozuka Kofun（Tumulus）
This tumulus is included in the Wakakodama tumulus group, and is called the Jizozuka tumulus because the Jizo-do is enshrined at the top of the tumulus. The mound is thought to be a square mound, and it was built in the middle of the 7th century. The scale is about 28m on a side, about […]
Hachimanyama Kofun（Tumulus） Stone
The Hachimanyama Kofun(tumulus) is the center of the Wakakodama Kofungun that spreads around this area, and is estimated to be a large circular burial mound with a diameter of about 80 m built in the first half of the 7th century. It was restored and maintained in 1981. From the stone chamber, the finest casket, […]
Oshi Castle Ruins
Oshi Castle Ruins, which is considered one of the seven main strongholds of the Kanto region, was first built by the Narita clan in the second half of the 15th century in the Muromachi Period. Toward the end of the Warring States Period in the late 16th century, when Toyotomi Hideyoshi was nearing consolidation of […]
Sakitama Kofun（Tumulus） Cluster（National Special Historic Site）
This park is located in the Sakitama area in Gyoda City, which is the origin of the name of Saitama Prefecture. It consists of a group of nine large burial mounds built between the 5th and 7th century and was designated as a National Special Historic Site in 2020. Saitama Prefectural Museum of the Sakitama […]
