When you drop off at Onomichi Station and take a look back, you will see a small mountain. This is called Mt. Senkoji at 136.9 m elevation. The Senkoji Park stretches out from the halfway of the mountain to the summit. You will see cherry blossoms and azalea in spring and purple and pink colored wisteria in the early summer. In autumn, the Onomichi Chrysanthemum Competition is held and the park looks more vigorous with the beautiful smell of chrysanthemum. In the park, there is also the Onomichi Municipal Museum designed by the internationally acclaimed architect Tadao Ando. You can have a panoramic view of Onomachi city as well as the islands found in the Island Sea from the observation deck atop of the mountain. You will even see the far off Shikoku mountain ranges when the weather is fine.

The Senju Kanzeonbosatsu, a principal image of the Senkoji-Temple, which is rarely shown to the public, is called “hihuse no kannon sama” as it protected Onomichi city by the huge fire occurred in Kurihara village in 1705. From the ancient times, it has been said that after one's mind is washed up by the beautiful view from this temple, which many famous poets acknowledged as one of the best in Japan, and then he/she makes a wish to the principle image, a good luck would come to him/her. There are many visitors, irrespective of age or sex, who come to the temple to pray for good match, passing an exam, bearing a child, traffic safety, curing an illness, well-being of one's family, long life and senility prevention.

It was November 1912 when Naoya Shiga moved to Onomichi. He left Tokyo where he felt awkward about the way his book called “Shirakaba” stood and he was on bad times with his farther. He moved in Onomichi to which his friend gave a complement. His residence in Onomichi was “at the very end of three tenement house” as exact as he once described in his book called “Anyakoro”. His apartment was very humble with a six-tatami room, a three-tatami room and a kitchen. You will see the remains of the shipyard and the quarry on the mountainside behind the Onomichi Sea.

The Jodoji-Temple is known as a National Treasure temple including “Tahoto” and is one of the most traditional temples in the Chugoku region. The Juichimen-kanzeonbosatsu, which is rare to be shown in the public, is sometimes called “Migawari-kannon”. It is famous that Takauji Ashikaga prayed for a good luck in the battle of Minatogawa and won it. The enshrined “wishing stone” used belong to Kyugoro Jinmaku, the grand sumo champion in the Edo era. It is believed that if you could turn around the stone while you are making a wish, your will have a good luck. Other than ridding bad luck or better luck payer, the temple also offers safe delivery prayer (abdominal bandage giving) in the year of dog. Accordingly, there are many visitors who are pregnant.

The Nakata Museum of Art has various types of permanent exhibitions. The feature of this museum is that you can enjoy looking at numerous masterpieces at the same time and in the same place. The collection contains the paintings of Japanese masterful painters such as Ryuzaburo Umehara, modern painting masters including Pablo Picasso and Georges Rouault, painters of Ecole de Paris, and representative contemporary French painters such as Paul Aizpiri and Pierre Chirstin. Although the museum normally runs the permanent exhibitions, it holds special exhibitions of not just a tour exhibitions but of its own project once or twice in a year, which have been successful.

The Onomichi Municipal Museum of Art is located in the Senkoji Park. It was re-opened in 2003 by the internationally acclaimed architect Tadao Ando. The feature of the appearance is the simple concrete and grass wall for all sides of building, which provides brightness into the museum. Special and project exhibitions are occasional held.