The Kannonzaki Nature Center, situated along Kannonazki Park, is this areas natural museum, exhibiting living creatures and plants found in and around the rocky beaches and Laurel forest of the Miura Peninsula. The natural landscape and coast line of this point on Tokyo Bay made Kannonzaki an important strategic zone in national defense since 1854, when the Tokugawa government opened it's ports to foreigners.
Zelig with new friend, Sara Fisher
Gojira was here!
The Nature Center has been a favorite of Zelig's ever since we went several months ago and we've been back many times since. It's a small museum, exhibits are sometimes nothing more than plastic bug boxes with crickets or preserved fish in glass jars. However Zelig's favorite exhibit is the "fish touches pool", two boxes laying close to the ground, filled with a sampling of sea life. I think the exhibit is changed out frequently and I can only imagine the volunteers of the museum wading out into the tides and taking large scoops from the sand to bring back. Zelig just loves this pool and he specially likes to touch the octopus. Today, he touched one of the sea slugs which really is as slimy as one would imagine and kept on picking up the star fish.
Zelig with new friend, Sara FisherJust outside the Nature Center is a spot that marks a significant historical and cultural event for Japan. It is said that on this spot in 1954 in Kannonzaki, Gojira, or Godzilla, rose from the sea and set upon his destructive path towards Tokyo. To mark this event, his foot prints have been preserved in cement, like Grauman's Chinese Theatre! Only there is no signature.
Gojira was here!
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