Tokushima

Tokushima is located on Shikoku Island, the capital city of Tokushima Prefecture. It is most famous for the Awa Odori Festival, a dance festival held in August, which brings hordes of tourists during the Obon holiday period. This city offers beautiful nature and outdoor thrills all year round, like white water rafting, surfing, exploring local sake brewery, or trekking.

Bizan Park

Bizan Park, it overlooks the whole city, and on clear days you can see out to Awaji Island to the north and the Kii peninsula to the east.

Mt. Bizan

Mount Bizan, its name is formed of the kanji for eyebrow, and it is said to have earned this name because the mountain looks like an eyebrow from all views.

Tokushima Castle

Tokushima Castle is classified as a hilltop castle, and is located in Tokushima Prefecture.

Tokushima Prefectural Awa Jurobe Yashiki (Puppet Theater and Museum)

In Awa Jurobe Yashiki (Puppet Theater and Museum), Awa Ningyo Joruri, which is designated as a national important intangible folk-culture asset, is performed every day. “Keisei Awa no Naruto (a tragedy of Tokushima)” is one of the popular puppet plays performed here.

Tokushima Prefectural Museum

This is a general museum covering the fields of cultural sciences (archeology, history, folklore and pre-modern art) and natural history (geology, zoology and botany) .

Awaodori Kaikan

The Awa Odori Hall is a museum in the city of Tokushima where visitors can learn about Awa Odori, watch displays of the dance and sample local products.

Tokushima Central Park

Surrounded by the beauty of nature, with Mt. Bizan and Tokushima Central Park right in the heart of Tokushima

Bentenyama

At only 6.1 meters above sea level Mt. Benten-yama is the lowest natural ’mountain’ in Japan!

Jorakuji temple

One of 3 old Tendai Buddhist temples, “Konan Sanzan” located in Konan City was founded in the Nara period and is the No. 1 amulet-offering point of the Omi Thirty-three Sacred Kannon Temples of Western Japan.