Ishibashi Park

After the flooding, the three bridges that withstood it were moved to a new location where they could be repaired, restored and better protected.

The park is at the mouth of the Inari River, next to Japan National Route 10, and was originally a location for the Gion-no-su gun battery used during the Anglo-Satsuma War in 1863.

A large amount of money was spent on it, because the daimyōs (territorial lords) used it when travelling on sankin-kōtai, which obligated lords to live for a year alternately in Edo (Tokyo) and in their own feudal domains, to show their loyalty to the shogunate.

[2] Kōrai-bashi Bridge connected Kajiya-chō and Kōrai-chō, where there lived many samurai who would later overthrow the Tokugawa shogunate.

The park also has a statue of Iwanaga Sangorō, the mason from Higo Province (present-day Kumamoto) who built the five bridges.