NIPPON Kichi - 日本吉

2007/6/22

根室車石 Nemuro-kuruma-ishi Nemuro Kurumaishi

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Nemuro Kurumaishi (wheel stone) is down the path from Hanasaki Lighthouse at the tip of Cape Hanasaki, which is famous for Hanasaki crabs. This unique stone is a nationally designated Natural Monument. With radial joints in concentric circle, it really looks like a wheel as its name shows. It looks as if it were a man-made work of art.

The radial joints on a wheel stone were created when hot lava was cooled in the sea water in a very short time. Amazingly, this wheel stone was created as long as 6,000 years ago. Such huge and beautiful radial joints can’t be found in any other place in the world. Standing in front of this stone, we can’t but realize the vital power of the earth. It’s the power that makes the earth itself rotate too.

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Hanasakiminato, Nemuro, Hokkaido 087-0032
name
Nemuro Kurumaishi
phone
01532-4-3104




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