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Kuninaka in Sado Island
Kuninaka in Sado Island
There are a number of temples connected with the Nichiren faith on the island, including Konponji (根本寺), built on the location of his exile, Myōsenji (妙宣寺) and Myōshōji (妙照寺).
Close to Konponji, Seisuiji (清水寺) is a Sado version of the Kiyomizudera temple in Kyoto. The Japanese caracters are the same... for a good reason�: the temple was built for locals to be able to pray in Kiyomizudera without having to travel to Kyoto.
Mano Goryo (真野御陵), in Mano, is actually the resting place of the (enshrined) Emperor Juntoku.
Sado History and Traditional Museum (佐渡歴史伝説館) , located close to Mano Goryo, is a small museum about local legends, with displays from the craft master Sasaki Shodo. One of the tourist "attractions" (for a lack of better word) is the former US soldier Charles Jenkins , who as of 2008 works at the souvenir shop of the museum. You will probably recognize him after the dozens of photographs with Japanese TV celebrities found all over the place, and many tourists actually pose with him.
On the road from Ryotsu to Hatano, you could stop at the Nogaku no Sato (能楽の里) . The building, with two large Noh masks placed on a tower, is easy to spot. It could be described as a museum/fun park dedicated to all that is Sado-ish. See the unforgettable Noh performance by animatronics.
Sado is home of the Toki (Japanese Crested Ibis), however there are no wild Ibis left in Sado (the last known wild Japan-born Japanese Crested Ibis died in 2003), so visitors should head for the Sado Toki Preservation Center in order to watch the famed birds (from afar). The center is in Niibo, roughly in the middle of the island. As of May 2006 there are about 100 Ibis on the premises. There are plans to release Ibis in the wild at the end of 2008.
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