Togen Temple

This temple is located near the Prefectural Art Museum. I found it when I was out looking at the cherry blossoms. I couldn’t find any information about the temple.

Flower Viewing at Sumpu Castle Park

I walked through Sumpu Castle Park one morning after the rain. There were a few others walking around like me, but not many.

Kitayama Honmonji Temple

This is an interesting temple. A Fujinomiya tourism site describes it this way:

It was founded in 1298 (Eijin 5) by Nikko Shonin with the assistance of Nanjo Tokimitsu, the local lord of Ueno, and Ishikawa Magosaburo Yoshitada, the local lord of Kitayama. Kitayama Honmonji is a Nichiren sect temple also known as Jusu Honmonji, and belongs to the Fuji monk school which inherited the lineage of Nikko Shonin, one of the six senior disciples of Nichiren Shonin. It was counted as one of the five major head temples of the monk school, the Fuji Five Mountains: Kitayama Honmonji, Nishiyama Honmonji, Taisekiji, Koizumi Kuonji, and Shimojo Myorenji.

This area is the family of the mother of the fourth Shogun.

Another beautiful, interesting historical place.