Shosenkyo Gorge 御岳昇仙峡

The Rock Hunt

In Kofu, Yamanashi Prefecture, Shosenkyo Gorge is the meeting place for lovers of beautiful nature; especially when its vegetation blazes with red and ocher once autumn comes.

 

Of all shapes

You most certainly know this game in which you try to recognize objects, faces or animals in the clouds. Well, you can do the same in the Shosenkyo Gorge by scanning the granite boulders sometimes hidden by vegetation. By opening your eyes, you will be able to see about twenty of them with anthropomorphic, zoomorphic, symbolic or religious forms : a turtle, a sea lion, cannons, a camel, sliced tofu, snow-capped Mount Fuji , a bear, a cat , a Daibutsu (big Buddha), a mushroom, a clam, a puffer fish, a human face, a summer rain, a

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The monkey rock

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Daibutsu Rock

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