Since the northern part of Anan town called Tomikusa was seabed several thousand years ago, many fossils have been collected, including Megalodon in whose opened mouth an adult can stand without leaning forward. Incidentally, Megalodon is the ancestor of the Great white shark, the model of the famous movie character “Jaws“.Thus the soil of this […]
Urugi（売木）: Uru（売） means sell and gi（木）means wood. Therefore, Urugi（売木） literally means “sell wood” and as its name shows, Urugi village has had enough wood to sell untill today. As Japan is a mountainous country (about 67% is covered by mountains), mountains are a familiar existence for Japanese and in the past, people made almost everything […]