San’in Kaigan UNESCO Global Geopark San’in Kaigan UNESCO Global Geopark

  • Home
  • Outline
    • Outline of Japan and Global Geopark
    • Overview of San’in Kaigan Geopark
    • Valuable and beautiful Geoheritages
    • International geological significance
    • Japanese archipelago separated from the continent
    • Wealth of Ecosystem
    • Unique people’s lives brought about by Geo
  • Geological
    Heritage
    • Kyotango City
    • Toyooka City
    • Kami Town
    • Shin'onsen Town
    • Iwami Town
    • Tottori City
  • Related
    facilities
    • San’in Kaigan Geopark Kyotango City Information Center
    • Genbudo park
    • Kami Town Geopark &Marine Culture Center
    • Shin’onsen Town Sanin Kaigan Geopark Center
    • San’in Kaigan Geopark Museum of the Earth and Sea
    • Iwami Town Nagisa Community Center
    • Tottori Sand Dunes Geopark Visitor Center
    • Aoya Folk Museum
  • Model
    course
    • San’in Kaigan Geopark Trail
    • Walk & Drive Map
  • Practices &
    Activities
  • Operating
    organization
    • Greetings from the representative
    • Introduction of Managing Board and Steering Committee
    • Introduction of constituent groups
    • Introduction of the secretariat “San’in Kaigan Promotion Council”
  • Download
メニュー
  • Japanese

Geological HeritageIwami Town

Mt. Shichi

The mountain is comprised of Arakane pyroclastic rocks and Shichiyama formation of sandstone and mudstone of Tottori Group of Miocene of Neogene Tertiary covered by the lava flow of Pliocene. This mountain has been closely related to people living in this area since olden times. The mountain appears in the legend of Empress Jingu, and the stone quarried from this mountain has been used to build stone chambers in tumuli in this area.

(1)Mt. Shichi
This is a mountain consisting of the Miocene (Neogene Tertiary) Arakane pyroclastic rocks and the Shichiyama formation consisting of sandstone and mudstone overlain by the Pliocene lava flow.

(2)Obata Burial Mound No. 1 (Anakannon)
Obata Burial Mound No.1 is a tumulus of the Obata Ancient Tumuli. The tumulus is also called "Ana-kannon-kofun" ("Hole Kannon Tumulus"), since a statue of Kannon used to be placed in the tumulus. The tumulus was built in the late Kofun Period. The stone chamber is 11.2 meters in length. The height of the burial chamber is as high as 3.5 meters above the floor.

(3)Otani Kaigan Coast
The pebbles of this beach consist of tuff breccia, tuff, sandstone, mudstone, andesite and rhyolite rocks fallen from Mt. Shichi. You can also find autobrecciated lava.

(4)Iwaya Jizo
A statue of Jizo is placed in a hole formed by the salt weathering of a tuff. This Jizo appears as “Kussekison" ("the stone Jizo in the cave") in the book titled "Inaba Kakei Mudaaruki" written in the late Edo Period.

Iwami Town Tourism Association

783-8 Uradome, Iwami Town

TEL

0857-72-3481(Closed on Mondays(Next day if it is a holiday))

URL
Geological Heritage
前の記事
次の記事
  • Home
  • Outline
    • Outline of Japan and Global Geopark
    • Overview of San’in Kaigan Geopark
    • Valuable and beautiful Geoheritages
    • International geological significance
    • Japanese archipelago separated from the continent
    • Wealth of Ecosystem
    • Unique people’s lives brought about by Geo
  • Geological
    Heritage
    • Kyotango City
    • Toyooka City
    • Kami Town
    • Shin'onsen Town
    • Iwami Town
    • Tottori City
  • Related
    facilities
    • San’in Kaigan Geopark Kyotango City Information Center
    • Genbudo park
    • Kami Town Geopark &Marine Culture Center
    • Shin’onsen Town Sanin Kaigan Geopark Center
    • San’in Kaigan Geopark Museum of the Earth and Sea
    • Iwami Town Nagisa Community Center
    • Tottori Sand Dunes Geopark Visitor Center
    • Aoya Folk Museum
  • Model
    course
    • San’in Kaigan Geopark Trail
    • Walk & Drive Map
  • Practices &
    Activities
  • Operating
    organization
    • Greetings from the representative
    • Introduction of Managing Board and Steering Committee
    • Introduction of constituent groups
    • Introduction of the secretariat “San’in Kaigan Promotion Council”
  • Download
  • Japanese