On August 18, 1925, Tenjin Beach was the site of the first Boy Scouts of Japan camping trip.
In winter, strong winds and waves form natural ice sculptures on shoreline vegetation, attracting many amateur photographers to a 1 kilometer stretch of Tenjin Beach.
According to the Inawashiro Board of Education, in 1682 at the beginning of the Edo period a larger shrine replaced it when the Aizu lord Hoshina Masatsune (保科正経) requested one be built.
Doctor Hideyo Noguchi frequented Kobirakata shrine when he lived in Inawashiro.
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