Manzamo

It is a wallpaper photograph of Manzamo in Okinawa Prefecture

It is the feature that Manzamo has the strange rock which carried out a form just like an elephant's trunk in a precipitous cliff with a height [ from a sea surface ] of about 30m. It seems that Manzamo facing West Coast and the East China Sea in Onna-mura of the main Okinawa island central part became a strange form [ like the present in response to erosion of a wave ] whose rock projected to the sea is. It is one of the sightseeing spot which Manzamo of summer has very beautiful contrast of the green of a grass leaf, and the blue of marine blue and empty, and many hotels which make the Manza beach hotel (ANA Hotel) the start exist near the opposite shore, and represents Okinawa. Although Manzamo is the name which changed a little,In this origin, King Syokei of the 12th generation king of the Ryukyu Dynasty age comes out of the Shuri castle,It is said that this ground is visited in the middle of the trip of the territory inspection which will look at and turn around a life of people in October, 1726 of that time which was a king in the first half of the 18th century, not the way of the rock which carried out the form of this elephant's trunk but the field of natural grass is seen, and this name was attached from the place praised "the hair which is sufficient for carrying out the seat of everybody." It will be said that hair (Moe) is a word which means "an open field and a prairie" in Okinawa, and King Syokei was observing it rather than the rock which carried out the form of a nose like an elephant in the way of the width of the field which spreads on it. Seemingly he will be a king if it says that seemingly it is a king to observe the open field on which everybody can be sat rather than the rock of a strange form. Or a rock is not eroded to there yet those days, but it may be having been a precipitous cliff of the cape of the common shape of a mere plateau. It imagines freely. Moreover, the rock with Manzamo is a cliff which consists of a Ryukyu limestone of a coral reef which upheaved. Although it seems that the limestone-ized coral reef where the main Okinawa island itself upheaved at the time about 100,000 years ago occupies most,Since a limestone had character very weak to erosion of water, the precipitous cliff which the king looked at those days is a precipitous cliff without not a present strange form but the eroded mere feature, and it became such [ possibly ] strangely shaped rocks that it is not before so much. The field on this Manzamo also has a kind peculiar to the cliff in Manzamo as a Manzamo limestone plant community, and has also become a specification natural treasure of Okinawa Prefecture. It has become also in the prefectural appointed scenic spot on May 12, Showa 47. In Manzamo, the plants which can be equal to dryness of intense briny air and salt, and a limestone plateau have gathered. Moreover, the light blue whose color of the sea of the coral reef looked down on from Manzamo is also very beautiful is carried out. For a certain reason, the place where no fence is merely in the promenade of a precipitous cliff somewhat also needs cautions for a walk. It seems that those who fell to the sea actually came during commemorative photo photography in the talk in the direction of local at this time time two days before this photography. Although it is photography of Manzamo, for putting in Manzamo and the blue sea, during the morning is the best. Since it becomes a backlight in the afternoon, Manzamo becomes shade. It is also one hand to aim at the setting sun which sinks in Manzamo. Access gets down from Okinawa Expressway Yaka IC, and arrives in about 20 minutes via the prefectural road No. 88 line and the national highway No. 58 line. A parking fee is no charge.

The greatest natural grass in Okinawa	Manzamo	Manzamo and the East China Sea	Knowledge of the form of an elephant's trunk
The sea of Manzamo and a coral reef	The Manza beach hotel seen from Manzamo	Promenade	From the cliff top in Manzamo
The sea of emerald green coral	The sea in front of the Manza beach seen from Manzamo	The husband-and-wife rock which appears on the Manza beach	The sea near the Manza beach