Sayama Pond

The historical backdrop of Sayama Pond backpedals far into history. Amid an overview held amid updates in the in the 1990s, it became exposed that the lake was initially constructed 1,400 years prior around 616 A.D. At the end of the day, Sayama Pond is an item not of nature but rather of mankind, worked to secure water for developing yields. Estimating 3.4 km around with a region of around 40 hectares, the lake has touched base at its present shape on account of numerous years' utilization of human information and resourcefulness. Records express that the priest Gyoki did repairs on the lake in 731 A.D. Afterward, the priest Chogen completed work on the lake amid the Kamakura period 1185– 1333, and around the turn of the seventeenth century the primitive ruler Katagiri Katsumoto requested gigantic updates. Indeed, even into the advanced zone, the Prefecture of Osaka completed broad deals with the lake 1926– 1931 and 1988– 2002. On March 28, 2001, the Sayama Pond Museum was opened here too, a place where guests can find out about the storied history of the lake in a neighborly, insinuate condition.