Walk around the dense village, Saikazaki (Wakayama Prefecture) /A super maze village called Amalfi in Japan
Saikazaki
The Southwestern Japan Outer Zone Mountains, which are distributed on the south side of the Median Tectonic Line, are terrain with deep valleys and poor flat land, as introduced in the "Walking in the Village of Heaven" series. On the slope, you can see the fishing village "Mitsuri" where the houses are densely packed. Around Owase City and Kumano Town in the eastern part of the Kii Peninsula, the coastline from Wakayama City to Tanabe City in the western part of the Kii Peninsula, the east coast of Tokushima Prefecture, the west coast of Ehime Prefecture, and the east coast of Oita Prefecture. I have.
This time, it is the Saikazaki village located in the northernmost part of the western part of the Kii Peninsula. Called "Amalfi in Japan", a dense village with almost no roadway is built on the slope facing the Saikazaki fishing port. The feature is that there is no victory or defeat in the vertical road (orthogonal to the coastline) and the horizontal road (parallel to the coastline), both of which are maze spaces with endlessly stretched alleys, and the size of the area that can only be entered on foot even in a dense fishing village. Then, it will be the top class in the whole country. In addition, Ishigaki is characterized by flat blue stones. Among the Sanbagawa metamorphic rocks (Aoishi) distributed along the Median Tectonic Line, it is called Kishu Aoishi.