Akiyoshi plateau

Akiyoshi plateau

. Much of the area was protected as a Quasi National Park in 1955, and a portion is a Special Natural Monument.

Akiyoshidai is served by a natural history museum, visitor centre, resthouse, youth hostel and park headquarters building, and is traversed by a scenic roadway and several walking trails. Events include a fireworks festival in July, a Karst Walk in November, and an annual burning off of dry grasses in February called Yamayaki.

Geology

Uplifted reef limestones of Paleozoic age were thickened by overfolding during the Akiyoshi orogenic movement. Subsequent erosion has created an undulating karst landscape dimpled with many dolines and countless limestone pinnacles up to 2m in height. Beneath the surface lie hundreds of caves, a few of them quite significant. Fossils of Pleistocene age include the Japanese rhinoceros, Stegodont elephant and Young tiger, and numerous animals from the last interglacial period.

Akiyoshi-do

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References

"Akiyoshi Plateau and Akiyoshi Cave" information pamphlet

External links

* [http://www.ymg.urban.ne.jp/home/akihaku/Englishpage/English.html Akiyoshidai Natural History Museum website]
* [http://web2.cc.yamaguchi-u.ac.jp/~speleo/Akiyoshi-e.html Caves of Akiyoshidai]


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