Fukuyama City   Japanese English　　Kannabe Area Kannabe Area Mt. Yoshino Park Yoshinoyama Park is located at the north side of the Kannabe Castle ruins, where 1,000 cherry trees come into bloom in spring, and 600 hydrangeas during the rainy season. Kannabe Town Historical Folklore Museum Relics from between the primitive age to the tumulus period, as well as relics from the medieval Kannabe Castle, and also modern and contemporary work tools are exhibited here. Closed on Mondays. TEL(084)963-2361 Chazan Kan Memorial Museum This museum collects, researches, and exhibits the works by novelists and exhibits the works by novelists and painters associated with the town of Kannabe, including Chazan Kan. Closed on Mondays. TEL(084)963-1885 Kannabe Honjin Accommodations in which the Daimyo (feudal lords) stayed on making their everyother year trip for the attendance system in the Edo era. For about 250 years, the houses have shown what it used to be liked. Bingo Kokubunji (Temple) One of 66 provincial temples in Japan, built in the Nara era. The ruins of the lecture hall, main hall of the temple, and the tower were discovered since excavation began in 1972. Renjuku/Old Kan house This was a juku (cram school) established by Chazan Kan, who was a Confucian scholar in the late Edo Period, after he learned neo-Confucianism in Kyoto. Sanyo Rai was the head for some time. Go Top