Oyu Stone Circles

Oyu Stone Circles is a past due Jamon period approx. 2,000 – 1,500 BC archaeological web site within the town of Kazuno, Akita Prefecture, in the Tahoku vicinity of northern Japan. The remains had been specific a Special National Historic Site of Japan in 1956 with the aid of the Japanese government. The website online is placed about ten minutes by means of automobile from Towada-Minami at the JR East Hanawa Line of the Towada Interchange at the Tohoku Expressway.

The site consists of two large stone circles placed on an artificially flattened plateau on the left financial institution of the Oyu River, a tributary of the Yoneshiro River in northeastern Akita Prefecture. The web page became discovered in 1931, with designated archaeological excavations taking location in 1946, and in 1951-1952. The large circle, named the “Manza” circle has a diameter of 46 meters, and is the biggest stone circle observed in Japan.

A number of reconstructions of Jomon length dwellings had been built across the site. The slightly smaller circle, named the “Nonakado” circle, is 42 meters in diameter and is positioned around ninety meters away, separated from the “Manza” circle through Akita Prefectural Route 66. Each circle is made from rounded river stones brought from every other river approximately 7 kilometers away. Each circle in concentric, with and inner and an outer ring separated with the aid of an open strip approximately 8 meters huge.