Asumui, the sacred forest of Hedo アスムイハイクス（旧 大石林山）
The limestone is two hundred and fifty million years old, and people still pray at sixty spots.
It is Mount Asumui, which the kingdom's chronicle names as the first sacred place consecrated by Amamikyo, the deity from whom, according to myth, the islands descend. The rock is Palaeozoic limestone raised from the sea floor and shaped into karst forms; the trail with its facilities dates from 2002. It lies within Yanbaru National Park, inscribed as a natural World Heritage Site in 2021. On 17 February 2026 the forest of Hedo was added to the national Place of Scenic Beauty ‘Amamikunumui’, designated in 2015.
Okinawa
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