Kotohikihama, the singing beach 琴引浜

The sand goes ‘ku ku’ underfoot, and a 2001 regulation bans smoking on it.

One kilometre and eight hundred metres of coastline on the Sea of Japan, divided into three stretches by 太鼓浜, the central ‘drum beach’. The singing sand depends on how uniform in size the quartz grains are, which is the technical reason for the sound. Behind the beach runs an ancient dune about fifty metres high. A national Natural Monument and Place of Scenic Beauty since 26 July 2007 (notification no. 106, criteria 八 and 九), and before that listed among the hundred soundscapes of Japan to be preserved (1996), the hundred beaches of white sand and pines (1987) and the two hundred natural environments of Kyoto Prefecture (1993). It is mentioned in poetry by Hosokawa Yūsai and by Hosokawa Gracia, and later by the Yosano couple.

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琴引浜

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