Overview
A boulder carried down by a flood: 16 metres high and 52 around.
About this place
A huge rock on the riverbed along the Hakusan Park Line in Shiramine, Hakusan, Ishikawa Prefecture. It is 16 m high with a circumference of 52 m, and was carried here by the great flood of the Tedori River in Showa 9 (1934). It was said to weigh as much as a million kan, which is the origin of the name Hyakumankan no Iwa, and it is a natural monument designated by Ishikawa Prefecture.
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