{"id":1209,"date":"2016-09-06T11:41:05","date_gmt":"2016-09-06T02:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nkk-oki.com\/english\/?p=1209"},"modified":"2020-06-15T17:13:06","modified_gmt":"2020-06-15T08:13:06","slug":"medo-iwa-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkk-oki.com\/english\/medo-iwa-rock\/","title":{"rendered":"Medo-iwa Rock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1432\" src=\"http:\/\/nkk-oki.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/medoiwa1.jpg\" alt=\"Medo-iwa\" width=\"4272\" height=\"2848\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This strangely-shaped rock is located on the coastal road near Uka Village.<br \/>\nYou can enjoy some nice views across to Ama Town (Nakanoshima Island), Sabura-iwa Rocks and out as far as Okinoshima Town (Dogo Island) on a clear day.<br \/>\nFerries and fishing boats can often be seen in the strait between the two islands here.<\/p>\n<p>There is several interesting legends associated with this rock.<br \/>\nSome people say that this rock is called \u99ac\u9053\u5ca9 (Medo-iwa) because a strong warrior horse kicked a large rock located between Uka Village and Kuranotani Village, creating this horseshoe shape.<br \/>\nThe center of the rock fell in to the sea below, and is the shape of a turtle. That is why the small rock in the sea is called \u4e80\u304c\u5cf6 Kame-ga-shima or \u4e80\u5cf6 Kame-jima (Turtle Island).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Access (from Beppu Port)<\/strong><br \/>\n<span class=\"my-tag\"> car <\/span> 10 minutes<br \/>\n<span class=\"my-tag2\"> bicycle <\/span> 20 minutes<br \/>\n<span class=\"my-tag3\">\u3000walk\u3000<\/span> 1 hour<br \/>\n*The town bus does not go to Medo-iwa Rock, but it does very occassionally go to Uka Village.<br \/>\nWe recommend renting a bicycle or walking here as it is a flat road all the way.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Address<\/strong><br \/>\nUka, Nishinoshima-cho, Oki-gun, Shimane-ken<\/p>\n<p>&gt;&gt; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.ca\/maps\/place\/%E6%97%A5%E6%9C%AC,+%E3%80%92684-0301+%E5%B3%B6%E6%A0%B9%E7%9C%8C%E9%9A%A0%E5%B2%90%E9%83%A1%E8%A5%BF%E3%83%8E%E5%B3%B6%E7%94%BA%E5%AE%87%E8%B3%80%EF%BC%98%EF%BC%98%EF%BC%98\/@36.1182016,133.0710437,18z\/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x3557d65b93d4e235:0xdceee985adc0e986!8m2!3d36.1182016!4d133.072138\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google MAP<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/embed?pb=!1m18!1m12!1m3!1d1611.492943101443!2d133.07104365799105!3d36.11820159502364!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!3m3!1m2!1s0x3557d65b93d4e235%3A0xdceee985adc0e986!2z5pel5pysLCDjgJI2ODQtMDMwMSDls7bmoLnnnIzpmqDlspDpg6Hopb_jg47ls7bnlLrlrofos4DvvJjvvJjvvJg!5e0!3m2!1sja!2sca!4v1467869871413\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1432\" src=\"http:\/\/nkk-oki.com\/japan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/medoiwa.jpg\" alt=\"\u30e1\u30c9\u5ca9\" width=\"4272\" height=\"2848\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>This strangely-shaped rock is located on the coastal road near Uka Village. You can enjoy some nice views across to Ama Town (Nakanoshima Island), Sabura-iwa <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/nkk-oki.com\/english\/medo-iwa-rock\/\" title=\"Medo-iwa Rock\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkk-oki.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkk-oki.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkk-oki.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkk-oki.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkk-oki.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1209"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/nkk-oki.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2830,"href":"https:\/\/nkk-oki.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209\/revisions\/2830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkk-oki.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkk-oki.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkk-oki.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}