6 Sights in Yosano, Japan (with Map and Images)

The former Oto Family Residence is a historical building located in the Chirimen Kaido (Kaetsu Important Traditional Buildings Preservation District) in Kaetsu, Yosano Town, Yosa-gun, Kyoto Prefecture. It has been designated as an important cultural property of Japan. The former owners, the Oto family, have been Tango's leading raw silk merchants since the Edo period, and successive owners have served as a daishoya, a shoya, a town mayor, a bank president, and the president of Kaetsu Railway Co., Ltd. In addition, many historical materials have been preserved, and it is a very important cultural building for understanding the history of the Kaetsu area from the early modern period to the modern era.

Wikipedia: 旧尾藤家住宅 (JA)

The Kyoto Prefectural Tango Folk Museum is a museum located at 611-1 Tennozan, Miyazu City, Kyoto Prefecture. It is nicknamed Furusato Museum Tango. In the three fields of history, archaeology, and folklore of the Tango region, he conducts research and research, collection, preservation, and exhibition activities.

Wikipedia: 京都府立丹後郷土資料館 (JA)

Located at the base of the Tango Peninsula in Kyoto Prefecture, Ōeyama (大江山) mountain range extends over Yosano-cho, Fukuchiyama and Miyazu. The highest peak, Senjogatake (千丈ヶ嶽) has an elevation of 832.5 meters. The range is also called Yosa-no-oyama (与謝大山) and is best known for the legend of Shuten-dōji. It is also known for the sea of clouds that is visible from points of high elevation. On August 3, 2007, the mountain range was designated as a Quasi-National Park under the name Tango-Amanohashidate-Ōeyama Quasi-National Park.

Wikipedia: Ōeyama (mountain range) (EN)

Tenman Shrine is a shrine located in Kayano Town, Yosa District, Kyoto Prefecture. It is also referred to as Kayatenmangu. Situated south of the Chirimen Kaido, which was designated as an Important Traditional Building Preservation District in 2005, it is the origin of the practice where dozens of shrines in the Kayadani area hold their annual festival, the Kayadani Matsuri, on the same day. The deity enshrined is Sugawara no Michizane.

Wikipedia: 天満神社 (与謝野町) (JA)

Komushi Shrine is a shrine located in Atsue, Yosano Town, Yosa-gun, Kyoto Prefecture. In Shikinaisha (Meishin Taisha), the corporate status in the modern company rating system is Murasha. The shrine is located on the eastern plateau of the land called Kayadani in the middle basin of the Noda River, at the foot of the western mountain of the Oeyama mountain range. The Kaetsu Valley is densely populated with ancient burial mounds and ruins, such as the Hirukoyama Kofun and the Sakuyama Kofun, which are designated as national historic sites, and is considered to have been the most advanced area in the ancient Tango region.

Wikipedia: 小虫神社 (JA)

The Shirageyama Kofun (白米山古墳) is a Kofun period burial mound, located in the Ushirono neighborhood of the town of Yosano, Kyoto in the Kansai region of Japan. The tumulus which was designated a National Historic Site of Japan in 2002.

Wikipedia: Shirageyama Kofun (EN)