Onigajo rock formations

WHAT. THIS IS SICK. A large carpark was emptying out of local tour buses, and we had it to ourselves after the first 200m.

From the local tourism website:

"Onigajo is a massive rock wall created by earthquake uplift, weathering, and wave erosion. A 1.2 km long lava coast line was in the Pacific Ocean more than 14 million years ago, and over time the land was elevated several times.

This extraordinary wild cave, which is a part of Yoshino-Kumano National Park, is said to have once been a place where horrible pirates lived. "Oni" literally means horrible ogre in Japanese, and Onigajo was once called Ogre's Place. Later on, when a ruler built a castle there, its name was changed to "Onigajo" which means ogre's castle.

It has been designated a National Place of Scenic Beauty and Natural Monument, and is registered as a World Heritage Site as part of the "Sacred Sites and Pilgrimage Routes in the Kii Mountain Range."Leggi altro