If you want to take a break at Wakayama Castle

There are many restaurants in the area from around Wakayama Castle to Wakayama Station and Wakayama City Station, and if you start walking without deciding which restaurant to go to, you will end up getting confused and getting hungry.

In this town, I recommend eating outside when the weather is nice, using takeout, bread, and bento shops.

If you want to have lunch outdoors, Wakayama Castle is the place to go. There are many benches installed in Wakayama Castle Park, so unless it’s an event day, you won’t have to worry about finding a place to sit.

There are many restaurants in the area from around Wakayama Castle to Wakayama Station and Wakayama City Station, and if you start walking without deciding which restaurant to go to, you will end up getting confused and getting hungry. It will be.

In this town, we recommend eating outside when the weather is nice, using takeout, bread, and bento shops.

If you want to have lunch outdoors, Wakayama Castle is the place to go. There are many benches installed in Wakayama Castle Park, so unless it’s an event day, you won’t have to worry about finding a place to sit.

One of the best-kept secrets is the east side of the castle. Enter the castle from the Okaguchi Gate on the south side, walk north, and you will see Kuranomaru on your right. There you will find a long horizontal staircase called “Gangi” along the moat. When you go up the narrow steps, there are several benches where you can take a break while looking out at the moat.

It’s a little difficult to go up to the castle tower, but here you only have to climb up Gangi a little. Carp and turtles often swim in the moat, and various birds also gather there.

I think it’s a good place to relax when you want to take a short break.

Kingfisher
Yellow-bellied Bulbul

A cool looking chozuya at a city shrine

Taga Shrine is located near Wakayama Castle. Although the shrine grounds are not large, it is nationally known as a shrine for naming babies, with Izanagi no Mikoto and Izanami no Mikoto as the main deities.

As the temperature rises in June, the chozuya (also called temizuya, place for ritual cleansing of hands and mouth with water) at Taga Shrine is decorated with a windmill and wind chimes to create a cool appearance.

Beautiful Hydrangea in Wakayama Castle, Japan

和歌山城、鶴の渓のアジサイ

As the rainy season approaches in June, hydrangeas can be seen everywhere in Wakayama City. They can be found in private gardens, in potted plants, in flower beds along the streets, and inside the castle…

Wakayama Castle has many faces in each of the four seasons, and in the castle’s Tsuru-no-Kei area, hydrangeas of various types and colors are planted, all blooming at the same time during this season.

The name comes from the fact that cranes were kept in this section of the castle when the Asano family was the lord of the castle.

和歌山城 紫陽花

The hydrangea surrounded by mossy stone walls is very emotional.

The Momijogei Garden right next door was also a quiet place where only the sound of rain could be heard.

Hachiman Shrine in Wakayama City

It is said the origin of the Hachiman Shrine is in 902. There is the Kora Myojin Shrine in the the precincts.

Torii Gate of Hachiman Shrine
A pound in the precinct 
Kora Myojin Shrine
Hachiman Shrine
Takydromus tachydromoides in the precinct