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Takagai Stone Terraces

Tokushima · · Historic Districts

Japanese name: 高開の石積み

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WHAT TO DOTakagai Stone Terraces

Stone walling in Yoshinogawa, with flowers on its stepped terraces.

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Stone walling in Yoshinogawa, with flowers on its stepped terraces.

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The Takagai stone walls (Takagai no Ishizumi) are stone walls in Misato, Yoshinogawa, Tokushima Prefecture. Selected for Japan's Top 100 Villages (Nihon no Sato 100-sen) and also as an Important Cultural Landscape by the Agency for Cultural Affairs. The stone walls of the Misato district, developed to open steep slopes for farmland and houses, and Takagai is located at the highest place, commonly called 'Sora.' In spring moss phlox (shibazakura) bloom in profusion, a Shibazakura Festival is held, and illumination is also provided during the period. About 20 minutes by car from Awa-Yamakawa Station on the JR Tokushima Line.

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