Tanoura (Wakayama Prefecture) / A dense fishing village that seems to be in a bowl

Walk around the dense village, Tanoura (Wakayama Prefecture) / A dense fishing village that seems to be in a bowl
Tanoura
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 Tanoura village located in the northernmost part of the western part of the Kii Peninsula. It is located next to the famous Saikazaki village called "Amalfi in Japan", and although it is not as big as Saikazaki, it is a fairly large dense fishing village.
The shape of the village is surrounded by a beautiful arc-shaped slope, and it feels like you are in a bowl. At the bottom of the bowl, houses are lined up on a flat land, and a village with two vertical roads in the east and west and a side road (presumably the old coastline) at the entrance from the coast. There are maze-like alleys on the slopes that are quite complicated. Ishigaki is characterized by flat Aoishi, and is called Kishu Aoishi among the Sanbagawa metamorphic rocks (Aoishi) distributed along the Median Tectonic Line.