The two sacred rocks, 11.8 and 11.2 m tall, joined by a sacred rope 30 m long weighing 1 tonne.
Arriving on the Itoshima coast, you see, 150 metres from the shore, two sacred rocks 11.8 metres tall (the male one) and 11.2 metres tall (the female one), held together by a shimenawa (the sacred Shinto rope of rice straw that marks a sacred place) 30 metres long, 50 centimetres thick and weighing one tonne. A white torii (the entrance gate of a Shinto shrine) stands nearby. In the days around the summer solstice, the sun sets exactly in the gap between the two rocks.
The rocks lie off the coast of Sakurai, in the municipality of Itoshima, and are known as the sunset counterpart of the Futamigaura of Ise, Japan's best-known pair of wedded rocks. Every year, between late April and early May, during the spring tides, the local community renews the rope that joins them.
ℹ️ The best time to see the sun set between the two rocks is in the days around the summer solstice.
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