Shimizu Magaibutsu (Buddhist images carved on rock wall)
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Shimizu Magaibutsu (Buddhist images carved on rock wall)
The Sanskrit characters and line engravings carved with thoughts on a rock wall.
清水磨崖仏群
Many Buddhists related sites still remain around the Kawanabe area, and Shimizu Magaibutsu is the biggest among them. Approximately 200 Buddhist images carved on rock wall (20 meters of height x 400 meters of width) along the Manose River. It is a historically and Buddhistically valuable site and it's scale is unprecedented.
Basic Information
Directions
About 60 minutes by car from Kagoshima city.
Telephone Number
0993-83-4433 ※Japan's International Country Code is 81