Just off the street there is a Japanese inn, Asakichi Ryokan, which has been running since its establishment in the latter half of the 1700s. Built on a sharp slope by means of so-called 'Cascade construction', the inn appears as if it were five-storied when viewed from a distance.
Various antique furniture, tableware and other daily necessities exhibited here tell the way of life in the good old days,
Down the narrow stone steps, there is a small shrine called Asaka-Tsuzura-Inari. Its object of worship is big rock 2.5m high, 6m wide. The rock was carried her from a valley to be enshrined. Ancient people believed that the god dwelt in a rock or a stone.