Kumano/Nigishima (Mie-Ken)
Kumano-shi, Mie located in southern Kii Peninsula and what is called a 紀南 district.
Although it is a small town with a population of only a little more than 20,000, it is also the town which is
full of the natural beauty surrounded in the Pacific Ocean by the rich green mountains before it.
It is fresh in memory that the Kumano old road was registered into world heritage as "the holy place and worship way in Kii Mountains" in July, 2004.
The travelers who finished the pilgrimage to Ise the Kumano old road Ise way which is one of the worship ways,
He came to walk briskly on the way of a pilgrimage traveled for Kumano 3 mountain or the
Thirty-three-Holy-Places-of-Kannon-in-the-Western-Provinces visit at the Edo period.
moreover -- the coastline -- "-- a shield -- there being strangely shaped rocks,
Jiyou-Ga-saki" and "Onigajo", and a place of scenic beauty, and inducing a once brave bear Nomizu army
Whaling, , etc. have the prosperous shining history.
On the other hand, the southern part of Kii Peninsula is said even for the part-time farm household to have stopped realizing.
Now, the once prosperous fishing is also washed by the wave of aging, and a successor is not in it.
A mandarin orange is the Jiri because of overproduction and an intense competition. since --
a young man throws away a town and population is also the "aging advanced region" which is decreasing in number rapidly.
Nigishima (imitating ま) is the small fishing village town of the population the weakness of 400 performed to the Owase slippage about 15 minutes from the Kumano station.
Much remains since the Joumon Yayoi period excavate the circumference of the Nigishima bay where water
quality is beautiful, and much historic relics about a fishery and historical records are left behind.
Nigizima-Ura is prosperous in a whaling fishery or fishing for saury for many years.
When it made an excursion and became smart from the offing of Sanriku, it can catch in adjacent seas.
National dispatch of Pacific saury sushi or the dried food is carried out from the beginning of autumn.
Reference link "Bear Noichi public office" "Trip of the Kishuu way" "Mind network" "East Kishuu seen from the sea"
