The legend of Taro Urashima

A person named Urashima Tayu of Mizue lived in the village of Miura, Sagami country. Tayu had been in Tango for a long time to work. As the child Taro went out to the sea all day, he helped a turtle that had been bullied by the children on the beach. Taro was taken by the help turtle and went to "Ryugu Castle" and received the hospitality of Otohime. The passage of time is a dream, and three years have passed.
When she told her spare time in love for her parents, Otohime spared goodbye and gave Taro a Tamate Box and Holy Kanzeon Bodhisattva. Taro stepping on his hometown soil, everything he sees and listened to. Finally, when I opened this ball box, white smoke came out of the inside and became an old man with gray hair. I thought it was three years in fact, 300 years, and when I heard that my parents were not already from this world, but were buried at the peak of Musashi no Kuni Shirohata, the two tombstones were lined up lonely .
Taro tied the hermitage beside the tomb and laid a statue of Bodhisattva, and mourned his parents' bodhi. Kanju-ji Temple was abandoned in 1872, and now a statue of Holy Kanzeon Bodhisattva is enshrined at Keiunji Temple.
In addition, there is a memorial tower for Tayu Urashima and Taro's father and son and a monument to Kamezuka at Renhoji Temple in Urashimaoka.
In addition, the river that flowed along the border between Nanatsujima and Oguchi-dori is the river where Taro Urashima washed his feet, and there is a monument of the Ashiarai River on Oguchi Street, and there is a well where Taro washed his feet at Koyasu Dori 1-chome There is.

[Reference Source: Kanagawa Ward History]