Utsunomiya, Home of Oya Stone Underground Adventure
How far does this chilly space continue and go down? This huge space with high walls and pillars that are lined in order, the lights casting shadow one after another. Make a turn between the pillars and the same scenery spreads in front of your eyes, gradually making you disoriented.
Quarrying of Oya stone started in the Edo period, developing into Japan’s major quarrying industry and at peak shipped 890 thousand tons a year that produced this huge subterranean labyrinth.
In Utsunomiya, the production area of Oya stone, culture of “quarrying” stone and using the stone in various ways have been passed down generations attracting visitors to this place.
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Workers at a quarry
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Strip-mining of Oya stone
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The Oya Highway in the late 1800s early 1900s. Passenger car pushed by men near Ichinosawa. (Transport corps of the former Japanese army and Sakushin Gakuin can be seen)
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Leaving Arahari Station with a flag of the first shipment of the year
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Heiwa Kannon (The tunnel-like structure to the right of the statue is the approach to Oyaji Temple.)
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Odd-shaped rocks, Sugatagwa River
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A stone crusher for Oya stone (inside the quarry of Watanabe Stonemason’s Store)
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Arahari Station when it started its operation (around 1915)
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