Koganezaki Park (黄金崎公園, Koganezaki-kōen) is a nature park on the western coastline of Izu Peninsula famous for its sunsets and viewpoints from which Mount Fuji can be seen on a clear day. The park is also famous for Horse Rock (馬ロック), a rock with a straight diagonal ridge and small patch of vegetation on the top which looks—with a bit of imagination—like the head of a horse.

Mount Fuji can be seen in the far distance from the view point
“Horse Rock” to the left
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Yokoamicho Park

Small park that commemorates the victims of the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake and the air raids of World War II.