The Takigi Noh performed at Miho no Matsubara Pine Grove was actually a performing arts festival honoring French women!? Take a stroll through Miho no Matsubara Pine Grove while admiring the beautiful Mt. Fuji. Miho no Matsubara Pine Grove is a scenic spot on the east side of the Miho Peninsula in Shizuoka City, Shizuoka Prefecture. The 7km stretch of the beach, which is covered with 50,000 pine forests, and the beautiful scenery of Mt. Fuji overlooking Suruga Bay, has been written in many waka poems and haiku poems since the Heian period (end8th – 12th centuries), and has also been depicted in ukiyo-e prints during the Edo period (17th […]