After descending the steep slope, we’ve now arrived at a small plaza where you can see Mikisato. The pavilion you see stands where the Jugoro-Chaya Teahouse used to be. Now, all that remains are the rocks that it was built on.

An old picture shows what the teahouse used to be like. In it, there’s a monkey leashed to the front of the teahouse, and travelers are feeding it. There are also people taking a break from their journey, smoking tobacco. One diarist from Shizuoka Prefecture said that “I rested at a teahouse. They had a monkey.”

As such, it seems the Juguro-chaya Teahouse actually kept a monkey as a pet. There is also a legend that a treasure is buried “under the azaleas where the sun shines” at the teahouse, and although many have searched for it, no treasure was ever found.