There is the Infprmation Seveice at the corner under Kotokuji temple.
  Climbing the slope way from it, we would find the site of the buildings which was a elementary school of the town. The wooden houses of ex-school has a nostalgic taste. They are standing on a hill higher than the temple. There we can look over totally the town.

▲Walking up steep slope to ex-school


▲Looking down at the rown

  Back to the Information Service, Shall we go northward on the street.
  The we would find the post office which is now used for the Museum of Post-History. The picture beneath is a mail box in old style.

  Let' take a walk watching the traditional town-houses standing side by side on both side of the road.
  At the center of the town are the sites of Honjin and Waki-Honjin, the Okutanis which are now the Museum of history and folklore.

  The Shimazakis had been nominated for the chief of Honjin and mayor generation after generation until the end of Edo period.
  Though in the story of "Yoake-mae, i.e. Before Dawn―" written by Shimazaki Toson the main stage is Magome town, Tsumago appears sometimes.