Awara [Hot Spring] - Awara

...Straddling the Sakai Plain and the Kaetsu Plateau, it faces the Sea of ​​Japan. Widely known for Awara Onsen, it is a quiet farming village where rice is cultivated on the alluvial plain and field crops and dairy farming are the main industries on the plateau. Honjo, which occupies the natural levee of the Takeda River, is the center of Kofuku-ji Temple's Togo Kawaguchi Manor, which flourished from the end of the Heian period to the Middle Ages. Kasuga Shrine here is said to be the main shrine of the manor in the former Togo, Shikinai Inokuchi Shrine, and is located at the outlet of the Takeda River at the end of the Togo Irrigation Canal, which was the basis for the development of the manor. ...

*Some of the terminology that mentions "Ashiwara [Hot Spring]" is listed below.

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…坂井平野と加越台地にまたがり，日本海に臨む。芦原温泉で広く知られるが，沖積地は米作，台地は畑作，酪農を主とする静かな農村である。竹田川の自然堤防を占める本荘は平安末期から中世に栄えた興福寺の荘園河口荘十郷の中心で，ここの春日社は旧十郷にある同荘の総社，式内井ノ口神社と伝え，同荘開拓の基となった十郷用水末端の竹田川落ち口に鎮座する。…

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