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[ 12 min. drive ]

Enjoy meals using local specialties such as Asakura sansho (Japanese pepper) and yatsuka pork.

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[ 35 min. drive ]

The mine tour begins at the former “Meinobu Elementary School,” where the children of Meinobu attended until the mine closed.

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[ 2 min. drive ]

Take a walk through one of the few tunnels that have been preserved in their original condition. Experience the reality of mining with its rough rock surfaces and exposed veins.

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[ 2 min. drive ]

The Akenobe Mine Meishin Train was operated for 1 yen per one-way trip as a way for local residents to get around on the mine track connecting Akenobe and Mikobata. Experience train rides and other events are now held.

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[ 4 min. walk ]

The town of Akenobe is a long and narrow town that stretches 1,300 meters along the  Akenobe River. At its peak from the Taisho era to the early Showa era, as many as 4,167 people lived here. The town had everything necessary for daily life, including a hospital, post office, movie theaters, and department stores.

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[ 40 min. drive ]

The restaurant is located in the “Tajima Choju-no-Sato” surrounded by the great nature of Tajima. The restaurant offers many dishes that allow you to fully enjoy the harvest of Tajima.

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[ 7 min. drive ]

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[ 40 min. drive ]

A cast-iron bridge built around 1883 to connect the Mikobata mines and Ikuno mines on the ore transportation road. It is the oldest cast-iron bridge in Japan and is a nationally designated important cultural property.

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[ 5 min. drive ]

It once flourished as a mine producing silver and copper, and later operated as a ore dressing plant for ore mined at the Akenobe Mine. It was called “the best ore dressing plant in the Orient” and was also known as the “Nightless Castle” because it continued to operate even during the night. Today, the foundation and part of the thickener remain.

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[ 1 min. walk ]

The house of French engineer Mousset was built in Ikuno in 1872. It was built in the colonial style and moved to its current location as a mining office. Inside the building, visitors can see models and photographs of the ore dressing plant when it was in operation.

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[ 15 min. drive ]

This beautiful Western-style cast-iron double-tiered bridge, nicknamed “ Megane Bridge in Habuchi,” was built in 1887 at the same time as the Mikobata cast-iron bridge. It is considered one of the five cast-iron bridges on the ore transportation road connecting the Mikobata and Ikuno mines.

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[ 6 min. drive ]

During the period when the Ikuno Mine was at its peak, modern urban culture reached the area under the influence of mine employees who had been transferred from the city. Please enjoy one of these dishes, hashed rice.

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[ 15 min. drive ]

Experience the history of the silver mine through a 1km, 40minute round-trip sightseeing tunnel. The actual tunnel is more than 350 km long and 880 m deep.

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[ 7 min. drive ]

Two old houses representing Ikuno, the former Asada Residence and the former Yoshikawa Residence, have been revitalized as the Kuchiganaya Ginzan Town Museum Center. They can be used as an event space and an old house café.

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The town developed as a mining town for the Ikuno Ginzan Silver Mine, one of the most prosperous mines in Japan. You can also see the train (trolley) road that was built in 1920 to transport ore and supplies.

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[ 5 min. drive ]

Take a train from Ikuno station or Drive to the next destination such as

-Fairfield by Marriott Kyoto Amanohashidate