The Tomioka Silk Mill and Related Industrial Heritage
World Heritage Registration Promotion Office
The Great Mulberry of Usune
This tree is the largest wild mulberry tree in Japan, and is thought to be 1,500years old. Because of its large size and graceful figure, it is locally worshipped as the "god of sericulture." When the local mulberry fields were struck by frost, its leaves were used to feed the silkworms.
( A national natural monument )