遊子水荷浦の段畑 (ゆすみずがうら)『耕して天に至る』The terraced fields on a steep slope 愛媛県宇和島市 Ehime JAPAN【Subtitles 字幕】

This is the Miura Peninsula in Ehime Prefecture. (It is not the famous Miura Peninsula in Kanagawa Prefecture.)
The Miura Peninsula is located southwest of the center of Uwajima City, Ehime Prefecture, and juts out in a northwesterly direction toward the Uwa Sea.
The peninsula is about 15 km long, and its tip curves south like a fish hook.

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This is the terraced fields of Yusumizugaura, located in a small village on a cape that branches off from the north coast of the Miura Peninsula toward the Uwa Sea.
On the steep slope of the cape, there are terraced fields formed by piling up small stones, forming a unique landscape that shows the half-farming, half-fishing lifestyle that has been practiced on the ria coast of the Uwa Sea.
The castle-like stone walls have an average slope of 40 degrees and a maximum of 46 degrees, forming terraced fields about 1.5 meters high and 1 meter wide.
There are more than 60 stone steps, and the highest point is 90 meters above sea level. It is about the height of a 25-story high-rise building.

The terraced fields, which were developed by our predecessors, combined with the beauty of the Uwa Sea that spreads out before you, make a truly spectacular view.
In 2007, the terraced fields of Yusumizugaura were designated as a nationally important cultural landscape due to their historical value and scenic importance.

In the Uwajima region, the mountains come close to the sea in many areas, and arable land is originally scarce.
It is said that the area began 400 years ago when fishermen created terraced fields to grow sweet potatoes, a food other than fish.
In the 1900s, cultivation switched from sweet potatoes to mulberry cultivation to support sericulture, and the stone walls were built with the income from sericulture.
Currently, potatoes are grown, and the NPO "Let's Protect the Terraced Fields Association" is working to preserve the landscape and protect the environment.

The terraced fields of Yusumizugaura are said to "Cultivating the land to reach the heavens."
The overwhelming scenery gives a real sense of the long life and hardships of the people who have lived here.