Yui
A town which reflects the Tokaido Road of the Edo Era, and where the treasure of Suruga Bay, the sakura shrimp is caught.
The Yui area is where the Inns of the Tokaido Road are located, and it still reflects the olden times. Tokaido Hiroshige Museum displays the works of an ukiyoe painter, Utagawa Hiroshige, and along with Yui Honjin Park it warmly welcomes visitors. Sakura shrimp is caught only in Suruga Bay in Japan at this Yui fish port. Although it is only a tiny shrimp, neverthless it is considered the Treasure of Suruga Bay, and restaurants in this area specialize in sakura shrimp dishes and are always busy with lively visitors. There are hiking trails to the Hamaishi-dake Mountain and the Satta-toge Pass where you can enjoy a splendid view of Mt. Fuji.
浜石岳
Mt.Hamaishi, which is 707m above sea level, is known as an easy hiking trail that takes about three hours on foot at a leisurely pace from Yui station to the top. It has a fine panoramic view from the summit with Mt Fuji in the distance, the rows of houses of Yui, Kambara, Fuji and Shimizu lay before your eyes. Also visible are the Izu and Miho Peninsulas over Suruga Bay and the mountain range of the Southern Alps in the north.
由比本陣公園
In the Edo era, Yui lodging town was thronged with people. It had a honjin, an inn for daimyo, a wakihonjin, a spare inn for daimyo, and 32 tabikagoya, inns for samurais and other people. You can see the style of those days from the main gate, stone walls, wooden fences and a drinking trough for horses. Inside the park, you can relax at Miyukitei, which is a traditional Japanese building with a chashitsu (a traditional tea room) and a mizuya (a contemporary kitchen).
| Access | A 25-minute walk from JR Yui Station. |
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| Tel. | 054-375-4454 |
| Admission | (Miyukitei)￥150 |
| Hours | 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (admission until 4:30 p.m.) |
| Closed | Mondays (the following day if Monday is a national holiday), the following day of a national holiday and during the Year-end/New Year holidays |
東海道広重美術館
Here you can have your fill of the ukiyoe art (wood-block prints). This museum specializes in the works of Hiroshige Utagawa, an ukiyoe artist. Altogether it contains more than 1300 ukiyoe exhibits.
| Access | A 25-minute walk from JR Yui Station |
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| Tel. | 054-375-4454 |
| Admission | ￥500 for adults, ￥300 for high school and university students, free of charge for junior high school students and younger |
| Hours | 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (admission until 16:30 p.m.) |
| Closed | Mondays (the following day if Monday is a national holiday) and during the year-end/New Year holidays |
東海道由比宿交流館
This facility has three areas for culture, tourism and a rest area. It is used for many purposes as a place of recreation and relaxation. Visitors can see the history of Yui, and get tourist information.
| Access | A 25-minute walk from JR Yui Station. |
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| Tel. | 054-375-5166 |
| Admission | Free of charge |
| Hours | 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. |
| Closed | Mondays (the following day if Monday is a national holiday) and during the year-end/New Year holidays |
名主の館 小池邸
This former residence of the headman of the area along the Tokaido road was built in the Meiji period, and is a nationally registered tangible cultural property. It still preserves the atmosphere and relics of houses in those days in the Terao area with the tiled-roof eaves and the front and lattice door with a wicket. Some precious examples of cultural heritage are on display inside.
| Access | A 8-minute walk from JR Yui Station. |
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| Tel. | 054-376-0611 |
| Hours | 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. (March to October), 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. (November to February) |
| Closed | Mondays (the following day if Monday is a national holiday) and during the year-end/New Year holidays |
望嶽亭 藤屋
Located at the foot of the east entrance of the Satta-toge Pass, Fujiya was crowded with artists such as poets and calligraphers using it as a tea ceremony room and for lodging. During the Meiji Era, Tesshu Yamaoka who was the leader of the vassals of the shogunate left behind an example of the then latest style of a French ten-chambered revolver while allegedly being chased by the government army.
| Access | A 25-minute walk from JR Yui Station |
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| Tel. | 054-375-3486 |
| Closed | Irregular |
正雪紺屋
Shosetsu koya, where Yui Shosetsu was born, has been running a koya, which is a kind of a dye house, for more than 400 years from the early years of the Edo period. The items and implements for textile dyeing and the workplace remain as it was, and help to recreate the atmosphere of those days. A kind of pagoda for Shosetsu is in the backyard.
| Access | A 25-minute walk from JR Yui Station |
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| Tel. | 054-375-2375 |
| Hours | 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. |
豊積神社
Toyozumi Shrine was built in the Nagarezukuri style, the way Shinto shrines have been built, and structured by keyaki wood and roofed with sheet copper. It was built in 1825, and has kept several munefudas (wooden plates, which contain all the construction and ownership details about the buildings) of those days when Honden (the sanctuary of the shrine) was first built in 1600. In the Otaiko festival, the local young men carry a thick pole on their shoulders, from which hangs a big drum. In turn they go around singing in the neighborhood from New Year’s Day to January 3rd every year.
| Access | A 15-minute walk from JR Yui Station |
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| Tel. | 054-376-0113 |
由比漁港
Yui fishing port is famous for the catch of sakura shrimp and whitebait which are the specialities of Suruga Bay though it is a small scale fishing port. During the sakura shrimp fishing season in spring and autumn, people can see the fishing boats leave with Mt. Fuji in the background.
| Access | A 15-minute walk from JR Yui Station |
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| Tel. | 054-376-0001 |
林香寺
Rinkoji is known as the title of Saikosan, for the reason that the view of beautiful Suruga Bay from its precincts is similar to the view of Saiko, a lake in China. Tachikikannon, which is carved on the camphor tree, is in the back of the main building of a temple.
| Access | Take the Fujikyu Shizuoka bus from JR Yui Station, get off at the Iriyama-iriguchi bus stop and walk for 10 minutes |
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| Tel. | 054-375-2422 |
あかりの博物館
Akari (light) Museum is reconstructed from a house built in 1919 and displays various types of lamps using rape oil lamps and candles, and other articles and literature about lighting throughout the history of Japan.
| Access | A 10-minute walk from JR Yui Station |
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| Tel. | 054-375-68 |
| Admission | ￥500 for adults, ￥200 for elementary and junior high school students (Free of charge, with adults) |
| Hours | Weekdays, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Weekends and National Holidays, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. |
桜えび漁
Sakura shrimp has been well-known from the Edo Era but not the fishing season or location. On a night in December, 1894, a local fisherman went fishing for horse mackerel using a floating barrel as a net to gather fish. When the net was pulled in there were more than 180 liters of sakura shrimps caught instead of horse mackerel. It soon became widely known among fishermen. People can enjoy sakura shrimp as one of the specialties in Yui throughout the year, though the fishing season for sakura shrimp is limited to only spring and autumn.
| Tel. | 054-376-0439 |
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せがい造りと下り懸魚
Houses in Yui have distinctive features. Segaizukuri is a unique style of building often seen in Yui, in which roof trusses support roof with the eaves projecting out. They also add beauty to the old style of the buildings. Kudarigegyo, preventing the edge of the beams from rotting in the rain, carved in the shape of a cloud engraved with images such as young leaves, flowers and birds.
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