About 40 rock pillars in a line for 850 metres: they look like the piers of a collapsed bridge.
About forty rock pillars, large and small, line up for 850 metres from the coast towards the islet of Bentenjima, like the piers of a bridge never finished; hence the name, ‘bridge-pile rocks’. They formed 15 million years ago when a flow of rhyolite intruded between layers of mudstone; differential erosion wore away the softer rock, leaving the harder columns standing. Local legend tells of a wager between Kōbō Daishi and a tengu demon: the demon imitated a cock's crow to make him believe dawn had come early, and the bridge was left half-built. At low tide you can walk among the rocks as far as Bentenjima.
Rock formation in Kushimoto, at the southern tip of the Kii Peninsula, within Yoshino-Kumano National Park.
ℹ️ Free, open view, always accessible. 1 km north-east of JR Kushimoto Station (Kisei Line). A michi-no-eki (roadside station with a rest area) has been open next to the site since 27 April 2013.
🚉 Kushimoto · 21 min walk
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