Chubu Wide-area Tourism Portal Site -- Travel to Ten Thrilling Scenic Sites This showcases sightseeing destinations in Japan's Chubu region (the prefectures of Toyama, Ishikawa, Fukui, Nagano, Gifu, Shizuoka, Aichi, Mie, and Shiga).

Shizuoka Prefecture Shizuoka Area

Miho is a name of a peninsula pushing out to Suruga Bay from Shimizu Port. Miho-no-Matsubara (Miho pine grove) stretches along the east coastline and has been a famous scenic spot since the time of the Manyoshu. The scenery with the green pine trees, white waves in blue ocean, and the beautiful Mount Fuji in the background, looks like a picture scroll. In this pine grove, there is a tree called "Hagoromo-no-Matsu" known for a myth of an angel: when an angel was bathing, a fisherman took her clothing which was placed on a branch of a pine tree. In exchange to giving her clothes back, the angel showed a dance to the fisherman. This pine tree is a Japanese black pine of almost 650 years old and has shapely branches spread out to four directions. A statue of a French ballerina, Elene Giuglaris, who danced to a Noh song "Hagoromo," is built on the right side of the tree.