The legend of Taro Urashima

A person named Tayu Urashima of Mizue lived in the village of Miura, Sagami country. Tayu has been to Tango's country for a long time for work. When the child Taro went out to the sea all day and returned home, he helped a turtle being bullied by the children on the beach. Taro was taken by a rescued turtle and went to Ryugu Castle and received the hospitality of Otohime. Over the years, my dream has passed, and three years have passed.
When she told her spare time for her parents' love, Otohime spared goodbye and gave Taro a Tamate box and St. Kannon Bodhisattva. Taro, who stepped on the soil of his hometown, had nothing to see and hear. Finally, when I opened this tamate box, white smoke came out from inside and became an old man with gray hair. In fact, 300 years, I thought it was three years, and when I heard that my parents were not from this world, but were buried at the peak of Shirohata, Musashi no Kuni, two tombstones lined up lonely Was.
Taro tied a hermitage next to the tomb and enshrined a Bodhisattva statue and mourned his parents' bodhi, but this hermitage was later Kanpukuji Temple, commonly known as "Urashimura". Kanfukuju-ji Temple was abolished in 1872, and now the statue of the Holy Kanzeon Bodhisattva is enshrined at Keiun-ji Temple.
In addition, Renho-ji Temple in Urashimaoka has a memorial tower for Tao Urashima and Taro fathers and a monument to Kamezuka.
In addition, the river that flowed along the border between Nanatsujima and Oguchi-dori is the river where Taro Urashima washed his feet, so there is a monument of the Ashiara River on Oguchi-dori, and Taro washed his feet on Koyasu-dori 1-chome There is a well.

[Reference Source: Kanagawa Ward History]