is a
headland
A headland, also known as a head, is a coastal landform, a point of land usually high and often with a sheer drop, that extends into a body of water. It is a type of promontory. A headland of considerable size often is called a cape.Whittow, John ...
at the southeastern tip of the Japanese island of
Shikoku
is the smallest of the four main islands of Japan. It is long and between wide. It has a population of 3.8 million (, 3.1%). It is south of Honshu and northeast of Kyushu. Shikoku's ancient names include ''Iyo-no-futana-shima'' (), '' ...
, in the
city
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of
Muroto,
Kōchi Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located on the island of Shikoku. Kōchi Prefecture has a population of 757,914 (1 December 2011) and has a geographic area of 7,103 km2 (2,742 sq mi). Kōchi Prefecture borders Ehime Prefecture to the northwest and ...
. Extending into the
Pacific Ocean
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and situated in
within
Muroto-Anan Kaigan Quasi-National Park
is a Quasi-National Park on the coast of Kōchi Prefecture and Tokushima Prefecture, Japan. It was founded on 1 June 1964 and has an area of .
See also
* List of national parks of Japan
and in Japan are places of scenic beauty designated ...
,
the cape has been
designated
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a
Place of Scenic Beauty and the local vegetation a
Natural Monument
A natural monument is a natural or natural/cultural feature of outstanding or unique value because of its inherent rarity, representative of aesthetic qualities or cultural significance.
Under World Commission on Protected Areas guidelines, nat ...
, while the ''Sound of the Waves at Cape Muroto and '' is among the
100 Soundscapes of Japan In 1996, as part of its efforts to combat noise pollution and to protect and promote protection of the environment, the Ministry of the Environment designated the . There were 738 submissions received from all over the country and the 100 "best" we ...
.
Cultural features
On the summit overlooking the cape is
Hotsumisaki-ji, the twenty-fourth temple on the
Shikoku Pilgrimage
The or is a multi-site pilgrimage of 88 temples associated with the Buddhist monk Kūkai (''Kōbō Daishi'') on the island of Shikoku, Japan. A popular and distinctive feature of the island's cultural landscape, and with a long histor ...
,
as well as , which started operating in 1899, and a statue of
Nakaoka Shintarō
was a samurai in Bakumatsu period Japan, and a close associate of Sakamoto Ryōma in the movement to overthrow the Tokugawa shogunate.National Diet Library (NDL), Portraits of Modern Japanese Historical Figures Nakaoka, Shintaro/ref>
Biography
...
.
Geology
Due to the
subduction
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of the
Philippine Sea Plate
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beneath the
Eurasian Plate
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in the
Nankai Trough
The is a submarine trough located south of the Nankaidō region of Japan's island of Honshu, extending approximately offshore. The underlying fault, the ''Nankai megathrust,'' is the source of the devastating Nankai megathrust earthquakes, wh ...
, some off the cape, the land around the cape is being
uplifted
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at a rate of to per millennium, at the top end of the world's uplift rates.
Fauna
Birds observed in the vicinity of the cape include the
osprey
The osprey (''Pandion haliaetus''), , also called sea hawk, river hawk, and fish hawk, is a diurnal, fish-eating bird of prey with a cosmopolitan range. It is a large raptor reaching more than in length and across the wings. It is brown o ...
and
blue rock thrush
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.
Marine life in the waters offshore includes the
Japanese amberjack
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It is greatl ...
,
Japanese anchovy
The Japanese anchovy (''Engraulis japonicus'') is a schooling fish of the family Engraulidae. It is common in the Pacific Ocean south from the Sea of Okhotsk, widespread in the Sea of Japan, Yellow Sea, and East China Sea, and near the coasts of ...
,
Japanese barramundi,
Japanese jack mackerel,
Japanese mackerel,
Japanese pilchard,
Pacific mackerel
The blue mackerel (''Scomber australasicus''), also called Japanese mackerel, Pacific mackerel, slimy mackerel or spotted chub mackerel, is a fish of the family Scombridae, found in tropical and subtropical waters of the Pacific Ocean from Japa ...
,
Blackfin seabass
The blackfin seabass (''Lateolabrax latus'') is a Perciforme fish in the family lateolabracidae, found primarily in the shallow waters of the Pacific coast of Asia, in Japan and in South Korea. There are only two species in the genus Lateolabrax, ...
,
three-line grunt, and
spear squid
''Heterololigo'' is a monotypic genus of squids containing the single species ''Heterololigo bleekeri''. It was formerly classified in the genus ''Loligo''; some authors still include it there, but DNA evidence supports its separation into a genu ...
.
Access
*
Kochi Tobu Kotsu
** For
Toyo・
Kannoura Station
is a railway station on the Asatō Line in Tōyō, Aki District, Kōchi Prefecture, Japan. It is operated by the third sector Asa Kaigan Railway and bears the station number "TK30". DMV commenced operation from 2021, so this station has bec ...
** For
Muroto・
Nahari Station
is a passenger railway station located in the town of Nahari, Kōchi, Nahari, Aki District, Kōchi, Aki District, Kōchi Prefecture, Japan. It is operated by the public-private partnership, third-sector Tosa Kuroshio Railway with the station nu ...
・
Yasuda・
Aki Station
is a passenger railway station located in the city of Aki, Kōchi Prefecture, Japan. It is operated by the third-sector Tosa Kuroshio Railway with the station number "GN27".
Lines
The station is served by the Asa Line and is located 27.7&nbs ...
・
Aki Office
*
Tokushima Bus
** For
Maiko Bus stop・
Namba Station
is a name shared by two railway stations in the Namba district of Chūō-ku, Osaka, Japan. One is owned by Nankai Electric Railway, while the other is by the Osaka Metro. The names of both stations are written in ''hiragana'' on signage within t ...
*
Asa Seaside Railway
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Biology and medicine
* Accessible surface area of a biomolecule, accessible to a solvent
* Acetylsalicylic acid, aspirin
* Advanced surface ablation, refractive eye surgery
* Anterior spinal ...
(1 return on only holidays)
** For
Awa-Kainan Station
is a junction passenger railway station located in the town of Kaiyō, Kaifu District, Tokushima Prefecture, Japan. It is operated jointly by JR Shikoku and the third-sector Asa Seaside Railway and has the station number "M27".
Lines
Awa-Ka ...
(extends to this station via
Asato Line)
See also
*
List of Places of Scenic Beauty of Japan (Kōchi)
This list is of the Monuments of Japan, Places of Scenic Beauty of Japan located within the Prefectures of Japan, Prefecture of Kōchi Prefecture, Kōchi.
National Places of Scenic Beauty
As of 1 September 2019, three Places have been Cultural P ...
*
List of Natural Monuments of Japan (Kōchi)
This list is of the Natural Monuments of Japan within the Prefecture of Kōchi.
National Natural Monuments
As of 1 April 2021, twenty-eight Natural Monuments have been designated, including five * Special Natural Monuments; Miune- Tenguzuka ' ...
*
Muroto Typhoon,
Second Muroto Typhoon
*
Cape Ashizuri
is a headland at the southernmost tip of the Japanese island of Shikoku, in the city of Tosashimizu, Kōchi Prefecture. The promontory extends into the Pacific Ocean and is situated within Ashizuri-Uwakai National Park. Above the cape is , which ...
*
Kūkai
Kūkai (; 27 July 774 – 22 April 835Kūkai was born in 774, the 5th year of the Hōki era; his exact date of birth was designated as the fifteenth day of the sixth month of the Japanese lunar calendar, some 400 years later, by the Shingon sec ...
*
Dual-mode vehicle
A dual-mode vehicle (DMV) is a vehicle that can operate on conventional road surfaces as well as a railway track or a dedicated track known as a "guideway". The development of these vehicles started together with personal rapid transport syste ...
(This transportation is operated for the first time in the world)
References
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Places of Scenic Beauty
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