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Our guide
Miho no Matsubara is a stretch of about seven kilometres of pine-lined shore on the Miho Peninsula in Shizuoka's Shimizu ward. It is the setting of the legend behind the Noh play Hagoromo, and on the second Saturday and Sunday of October the city holds a Hagoromo Festival, with the play performed near the pine tree of the legend. It has been a Place of Scenic Beauty since 1922, and in 2013 the pine grove became part of the World Heritage Site of Mount Fuji as a Fujisan cultural site.
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Written by japan-spots.com (2026-09-22) from the sources credited on this page. Distances are straight lines between map positions.
Photos
Photos from Wikimedia Commons, each under its own licence — see credits
- 三保の松原, Miho no matsubara - panoramio — xe zna · CC BY-SA 3.0 · source · resized
- Mt.Fuji from Miho Coast 06 — Σ64 · CC BY 3.0 · source · resized
- Miho no Matsubara Hagoromo no Matsu pine tree — Twilight2640 2008年3月22日 (土) 09:39 (UTC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · source · resized
- Miho no Matsubara 01 — Σ64 · CC BY 3.0 · source · resized
- Miho no Matsubara2 — 江戸村のとくぞう (Edomura no Tokuzo) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source · resized
- Miho Shirube 01 — Indiana jo · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source · resized
- Miho Pier — ブルーノ・プラス · CC BY 4.0 · source · resized
- Miho-no-Matsubara Hagoromo-no-matsu — Saigen Jiro · CC0 · source · resized
- Hiroshige19 ejiri — Utagawa Hiroshige · Public domain · source · resized
- Elene Giuglaris monument — Abasaa · Public domain · source · resized
What this place is
Miho no Matsubara (三保の松原, Pinery of Miho, Pine grove at Miho) is a scenic area on the Miho Peninsula in Shimizu Ward of Shizuoka City, Japan. Its seven-kilometre seashore is lined with pine trees. It is the location of the legend upon which the Noh drama Hagoromo is based; on the second Saturday and Sunday of October, the city of Shizuoka holds a Hagoromo Festival and a performance of the Noh drama takes place near the pine tree of the legend. It was designated as a National Places of Scenic Beauty of Japan in 1922. In 2013 the pine groves were added to the World Heritage List as part of the Fujisan Cultural Site.
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