is a town in Nanyo City, Yamagata

Yamagata Prefecture

-Fruit:Yamagata Prefecture is the largest producer of cherries and pears in Japan. A large quantity of other kinds of fruits such as grapes, apples, peaches, melons, persimmons and watermelons are also produced.- Demographics :...

, Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

. Miyauchi merged with Akayu and Wago village in 1967 to create Nanyo City. The two kanji

Kanji

Kanji are the adopted logographic Chinese characters hanzi that are used in the modern Japanese writing system along with hiragana , katakana , Indo Arabic numerals, and the occasional use of the Latin alphabet...

 characters that form the name 'Miyauchi' literally mean 'shinto shrine' and 'inside'.

The shinto

Shinto

or Shintoism, also kami-no-michi, is the indigenous spirituality of Japan and the Japanese people. It is a set of practices, to be carried out diligently, to establish a connection between present day Japan and its ancient past. Shinto practices were first recorded and codified in the written...

 Kumano-taisha Shrine

Kumanotaisha Shrine (Yamagata)

The is a historic shinto shrine in Miyauchi, Nanyo, Yamagata, Japan.It dates from the 9th century, and is one of only three large Kumano shrines in Japan....

 (熊野大社) is one of the three great Kumano Shrines in Japan, whose origins date back to the 9th century. Every July the shrine is the focus of Miyauchi's main festival, when omikoshi (portable shrines) are paraded around the town before being returned to the main shrine.

Sosho Park (双松公園, Sōshō Kōen) holds a rose festival in June, and a chrysanthemum doll festival (菊人形祭り, kiku ningyō matsuri) in October. The festival's highlight is a series of human dolls made from locally grown chrysanthemums.

The Hygeia Park onsen

Onsen

An is a term for hot springs in the Japanese language, though the term is often used to describe the bathing facilities and inns around the hot springs. As a volcanically active country, Japan has thousands of onsen scattered along its length and breadth...

, which contains a small Isabella Bird

Isabella Bird

Isabella Lucy Bird was a nineteenth-century English explorer, writer, and a natural historian.-Early life:Bird was born in Boroughbridge in 1831 and grew up in Tattenhall, Cheshire...

 Memorial Exhibition, is also situated in the town.

Miyauchi lies on Route 113, and is served by Miyauchi Station

Miyauchi Station

Miyauchi Station is the name of multiple train stations in Japan.* Miyauchi Station in Hiroshima Prefecture* Miyauchi Station in Niigata Prefecture* Miyauchi Station in Yamagata Prefecture...

 on the Flower Nagai Line

Flower Nagai Line

The is a Japanese railway line in Yamagata Prefecture, Japan. It runs from Akayu Station in Nanyō to Arato Station in Shirataka.The Flower Nagai Line is the only line operated by the third sector , which took over the former JR East line in 1988....

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