Famous things in TAMANA

I live in Tamana city. I'm going to introduse famous things in Tamana city.

Hot spring

In my city, there are many hot springs. I like them. Especially I like "Kusamakura-Onsen" which is in my town. This photo is it. It has very good open-air bath which we can see beautiful view like mount Unzen. "Tamana-Onsen" is also very famous and popular!!




Festival
Every September, "Tmana odawara Festival" is held. At this Festival, the race which strong men compete to roll a big heavy straw bag of rice is held. This race is main event of this Festival. Many people come this Festival to see the race. 20th May, this race was televised on a program "The! TETHUWAN! DASH!!".






Special product

Mandareins of my town are very very nice!! You can see them(→)!! Don't they look good(>_<)??!!♪ There are many mandarin groves in my town. In early summer, we can smell good fragrance of them. I love that season. I really recommend you to eat our town's mandarins!!

Historical place
My city has the biggest five-storied pagoda in "Renge-in"(蓮華院)". The pagoda is the first one which people can training in the pagoda. Like this, there are many historical things in my city!! Come and visit them(^^)v

Parson

Do you know him→?? He is Chisyu Ryu who is a chief priest at "temple Ryu" and also very famous actor. He had appeared in some movies, for example "Otoko-ha-thuraiyo" which is very popular and famous movie. His home town is same as my home town "Tensui-machi". He is a granduncle of my friend. His temple is near my house. I think you maybe have seen him on TV!!