Tojinbo

Tojinbo is a chain of cliffs at the Sea of Japan in Japan. It is placed inside the Anti part of Mikuni-cho in Sakai, Fukui Prefecture. The cliffs average 30 metres in peak and stretch for 1 km 3,281 feet. The location is part of the Echizen-Kaga Kaigan Quasi-National Park. The cliffs' rocks have been at the beginning shaped 12 to 13 million years ago throughout the Miocene Epoch due to various volcanic sports, and had been created by magma mixing with sedimentary rock to form columnar joints of pyroxene andesite containing Plagioclase crystals, Augite and Enstatite crystals in pentagonal or hexagonal shapes, which has been eroded by the ocean.

The area received protection through the countrywide authorities in 1935 as a Natural Monument. One legend has it that a corrupt Buddhist priest from Heisen-ji a neighborhood temple, so enraged the population that they dragged him from the temple to the sea and, at Tojinbo, threw him into the ocean. His ghost continues to be stated to hang-out the area. An exchange legend says that the name Tojinbo comes from a dissolute Buddhist monk. According to the legend, a Buddhist monk named Tojinbo, who was disliked via everybody, fell in love with a beautiful princess named Aya.