Ao Cave Tonnel

First Japanese toll road!

This was a very interesting site if one knew how this tunnel was dug, apparently using very primitive equipment using human hands instead of machinery. This was evident when you observed the walls ins...

Very interesting

Ao Cave is well known thanks to the novel “Onshuno Kanatani”, written by Kikuchi Kan. The novel is based on a real story of a bonze who dug the tunnel for local people. I had expected a very mountaino...

Nature

Enjoy nature and some histrical things around here and feed the carps for relax. Now, July 10th, it might too hot to walk aroud. In Autumn is the best season to visit.

Meanigful

The site was around 30 minutes of drive away from the Nakatsu Station. I took the city bus and the fare was 600 yen one-way. The scenery was nice. However, the story of the cane was very meaningful...

Manual Tunnel

Original Text

Ao no doumon - blue tunnel - in the Edo era cut down the Buddhist monks Zenkai in the rock to facilitate the access of pilgrims to the Rakanji temple. It took about 30 years to work. The tunnel is half dark, ...