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Natural PlacesSite Name: Kouri Tūmiyā Alternative Name: 古宇里遠見屋 Kouri TumiyaCountry: Japan
NOTE: This site is 9.463 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: Kyūshū Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Nearest Town: Kouri-jima Island (Okinawa prefecture) Nearest Village: Kouri 古宇里
Latitude: 26.707034N Longitude: 128.017560E
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
0 | no data |
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A natural (?) mound on the highest point (107m alt.) on the Kouri island which is now connected to Okinawa main island with a bridge.
From this mound they observed and noticed the appearance of foreign ships by smoke and fire to the government in Naha city using the network of this kind of beacons.
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