Tsuruoka 鶴岡 Photo Gallery by Matthew Haswell at pbase.com

Tsuruoka 鶴岡

The second largest city of rural and mountainous Yamagata Prefecture, Tsuruoka is a historic town close to the Sea of Japan coast. Formerly a castle town, the city is most frequently visited today as an access point for the sacred mountains of Dewa Sanzan. Some of its Edo and post-Meiji Restoration heritage has been preserved in its old center.

Retro shopping arcade on Ekimae-dōri	Decorative manhole cover	Crane motif along the arcade	Entrance to Hie-jinja
Low-rise skyline of Tsuruoka	Uchi-kawa running through the old center	Tsuruoka Catholic Church	Mary statue on the grounds of the church
Shonai Hankō Chidō-kan	South entrance to Tsuruoka-kōen	Taihō-kan in Tsuruoka-kōen	Shōnai-jinja, Tsuruoka-kōen
Moat of former Tsurugaoka-jō	Former Nishitagawa District Office, Chidō Museum	Former Tsuruoka Police Station, Chidō Museum	Goinden in the Chidō Hakubutsu-kan

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