Let's go and see the turtles(13)
(Akashi park and turtle's water (Hyogo)




They are turtles swimming in moat in Akeshi Park, just north side of JR Akashi Station.

They are swimming with carps.

A turtle of right picture isn't red-eared slider when we see it carefully.
(Sept. 2008)



We can find such holes in the ground while I walk in the park.

And there are a lot of dry eggs with holes around and in the hole of ground.They must be empty eggs that baby turtles already hatched.

But to our sorry, we couldn't find any baby turtles though there were a lot of empty eggs everywhere
(Sept. 2008)




Ｈere is Kakimoto shrine at the place of 15 minutes' walk from JR Akashi station.
It's a Shinto shrine where a Japanese famous poet "Kakinomoto no hitomaro" is enshrined.

There is this shrine behind the Akashi astronomical observatory which stands on meridian.

We visited there because we heard that the water sprung up here was known well as good water called "Kame no mizu( turtle's water).

(Sept. 2008)



The water sprang up from such a turtle's mouth near the entrance of this shrine.

It's a very old stone turtle.
But it doesn't look like a turtle.


People came to get some water here with containers. They say that we can drink coffee using this water at some coffee shops.
(Sept. 2008)







This is Japanese sweet thing "monaka"whose name is from this water name. It has pattern of turtle's shell on its surface.
It's a souvenir from Akashi.
（２００８年９月）




This is washing-water in precincts
It's also turtles though the water didn't
go out from the mouth.

But it has ears.
It looks a fox. not a turtle in its face.
(Sept. 2008)



This is a stone monument on the turtle's plinth.

To my sorry it's difficult for me to understand what it read on it well. But they say that a feudal lord at that time built it to wishes the prosperity of the Japanese poem.

It looks surely to be a turtle because of its shell. But its face doesn't look turtles one. This also has ears, and it looks. This looks to be a cow rather than a fox.

(Sept. 2008)