Sunset Square
This park contains a monument to Mokichi Saitō (1882-1953), who was a leading poet of the tanka poetry magazine Araragi, first published in the Meiji period (1868-1912). Mokichi Saitō visited Obama hot springs many times and is said to have been fond of the sunset over Tachibana Bay seen from this spot. The inscription on the monument reads: ‘I always come here to watch the falling sun, and I must not forget the falling sun of the sea’. The sunset over Tachibana Bay is one of Obama’s most famous sights, and the poem is said to have been composed in admiration of the sunset.