Iwadatami ('The Tatami Rocks') (Nagatoro)
Japan /
Saitama /
Yorii /
Nagatoro /
Oaza Nagatoro
World
/ Japan
/ Saitama
/ Yorii
World / Japan / Saitama
rocks, picturesque, interesting place, natural monument
Japan's first Scenic National Monument, Iwadatami ('The Tatami Rocks'). Rock Tatami Cliff (Nagatoro no Iwadatami, 長瀞の岩畳), namely crystalline schist creating successive layers of rock overlapping each others. It seems that this geological feature was in fact created in the ocean (when the area was covered by the sea) and shaped later by the river. The name Iwadatami underlines the ressemblance with a tatami mat floor.
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 36°5'31"N 139°6'59"E
- Mt.Hodo (Hodosan) 3 km
- Mount Mitake (御岳山 Mitakesan) 32 km
- Ikaho Onsen Spa Resort 49 km
- Mount Harunafuji 49 km
- Mt. Akina - Initial D 50 km
- Agatsuma Valley 64 km
- Kawarayu-Onsen village 65 km
- Onioshidashi Asama-en Park 66 km
- Tateshina Amusement Suisoukan 74 km
- Aokigahara Forest 80 km
- Saitama Museum of Natural History 0.5 km
- Hodosan Shrine 1.2 km
- Arakawa Whitewater Boating Oyahanabashi Station 1.3 km
- Water Park Nagatoro 1.6 km
- Minano station 3.3 km
- Wadō-Kuroya Station 5.2 km
- Ruin of Hachigata Castle 7.3 km
- Yorii station 7.5 km
- Venture Chichibu whiskey distillery 7.6 km
- Kamikawa 10 km