A seashore back in time of 12th century that suddenly appears in a present residential area

Seibuumetate Daini Park; there is a pond in this park, and in the center of it there is a little island named “Kogoi-jima”. This little island used to be an actual island floating on the sea.

When the area's development projects carried after the World War II, the surrounding area had been reclaimed and the only this island and the torii(*) were left behind to preserve these memories.

The torii gate, which is normally located at the entrance to Shinto shrines, was built here, because the trees used for the construction of Itsukushima Shrine was cut out from the nearby mountain and sent from the seashore around here to Miyajima.

Even now, the seawater flows into the pond, and it is a rare pond where the water level rises and falls with the ebb and flow of the tide.
*the torii currently standing there is the one reproduced

Left: Scenery around this area drawn back in 1797
Right: Picture taken in early Meiji era (around 1870's)

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