Minamata Konjyaku

Swimming beach in Yunoko

Date
Aug. 31, 1962
Sep. 16, 2014
Address
Swimming beach in Yunoko
  • 昔
  • 今
  • The swimming beach is full of children. Some guardians watch the children playing in the shallow waters. You can find a tidal land of sands and rocks.
  • The present swimming beach of Yunoko is a monotonous artificial sand beach. Huge amounts of white sand were brought to make an artificial beach for swimming from 1981 to 1985.
Reference sources
  • The Edo Period:
    The Picture Map of Ashikita-gun, Collection of Kumamoto Gakuen University Library, the late Edo Period.
  • The Meiji Period:
    The Japanese National Atlas at the end of Edo Period and in the Meiji Period, Kashiwa Shobo, Collection of Kumamoto Gakuen University Library, 1983.