I dropped in Shimonogo to visited Ikushima-tarushima Shrine. Ikushima and Tarushima, who create the Japanese Islands and prosperity of all existence, are enshrined. In the Age of Civil Wars Shingen Takeda prayed for his win.
In recent years, the shrine appeared on the local paper as that looking like the one in a Japanese movie, "Spirited Away". The heroine of this work, Chihiro Ogino, travelled on a train and got off at 6th station "Numanosoko" from the bathhouse to meet Zeniba. On Bessho Line the 6th station from Bessho-onsen is Shimonogo. Moreover, it is said that Shioda basin was under the water. These are the reason that we can say the model of the train on this movie is Bessho Line and the one of Numanosoko is Shimonogo. It also said that the image of Zeniba and Yubaba is Ikushima and Tarushima, the one of white dragon taking the shape of Haku is the dragon appeared on the folktale, and one of the models of the bathhouse is an inn in Bessho.