City of ◯◯, Shizuoka!

There are many global model manufacturers in Shizuoka City. Therefore, Shizuoka City is known as "Hobby City". Every May, the "Shizuoka Hobby Show" is held, attracting many visitors from Japan and overseas. At the joint exhibition of modelers' club works held at the same time, about 10,000 works by model fans will be exhibited. It is the world's largest plastic model show that is attracting international attention.Aoshima MMP SWEET Tamiya (Factory tour available) Hasegawa Fujimi PLATZ Bandai Hobby Center (Factory tour available)

Shizuoka City, home to the J-League team "Shimizu S-Pulse", is nationally known as the "soccer city" as it has many high schools with strong soccer teams.
Shizuoka City is known as a soccer kingdom. A long time ago, and it is said that by the Taisho period soccer had already spread in Shizuoka City. In the 1960s, Shizuoka city was one of the first countries in Japan to establish a system to train and coach elementary school students and others. Shizuoka City's high schools have achieved excellent results in high school soccer tournaments and have become known nationwide as the soccer kingdom.
The manga "Captain Tsubasa", which is said to have influenced world-famous soccer players, was created with reference to Shizuoka City, where soccer was popular at the time.
When the J. League was launched, the "Shimizu S-Pulse" was born as the only citizen football team in Japan that did not have any specific supporting companies. Since then, "Shimizu S-Pulse" has produced many Japanese national teams members and star players.
Since the 1990s, Shizuoka City has been promoting three pillars of human resources development, community development, and exchange through soccer, based on the "Football Friendship Concept", a plan for community development through soccer. Shimizu S-Pulse Official Webside

From Shizuoka City, you can see Mt. Fuji from various places in the city.
Famous viewing spots include "Nihondaira", "Satta Pass" and "Miho no Matsubara".
Nihondaira" is a national place of scenic beauty. With a view of Suruga Bay below and a panoramic view of Mt. Fuji, it once won first place in the Top 100 Tourist Sites of Japan Competition.
The scenery of Suruga Bay and Mt. Fuji seen from the "Satta Mountain pass" is also depicted in the Ukiyoe "The 53 Stations of the Tokaido" by Utagawa Hiroshige.
In particular, the scenery seen from the "Miho no Matsubara" was registered as a Mt. Fuji World Heritage Site in 2013, and is visited by many tourists from Japan and abroad.
We are sure you can find your favorite Mt Fuji viewing spots were from the place you usually commute to, or over tea fields and over cherry blossoms.