Shrines and temples
Kobiragata Tenmangu, one of Japan’s “Three Famous Tenmangu Shrines,” is related to the poet Kanenori Inawashiro, who lived during the end of the Muromachi period and is considered the founder of the modern “waka” style of poetry. The shrine is also home to the “Sangaku” votive tablets on which mathematicians from the early Meiji period wrote mathematical problems and their answers; besides their scientific value, these tablets are also of great artistic interest. Another spot worth seeing is the Sekiwaki Ubaido Shrine, known to the locals as “Onba-sama,” where women pray for an easy delivery and postpartum health and safety.