{"id":19,"date":"2016-08-08T01:05:59","date_gmt":"2016-08-08T01:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ippei-janine.com\/tokyo-day-trips\/?post_type=portfolio&#038;p=19"},"modified":"2025-07-24T12:22:33","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T12:22:33","slug":"yoro-keikoku-ravine","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/ippei-janine.com\/tokyo-day-trips\/nature\/yoro-keikoku-ravine\/","title":{"rendered":"Umegase Keikoku, Yoroko Keikoku Ravine and Urajiro River Dondon Cave"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/1&#8243;][vc_single_image media=&#8221;67&#8243; media_width_percent=&#8221;100&#8243; css_animation=&#8221;alpha-anim&#8221;][vc_custom_heading]<span class=\"font-377884\">Umegase Keikoku and Yoroko Keikoku Gorge<\/span>[\/vc_custom_heading][vc_column_text]This picturesque, rugged area has several hiking trails (including stream hiking), and is well worth spending a full day to explore.<\/p>\n<p>If you have time and are interested in a man-made caves from many centuries ago, we recommend checking out Dondon Cave of Urajiro River, which is only about 10mins drive from Yoro Ravine.<br \/>\nChiba Prefecture has over 450 hand-carved caves which were made centuries ago in order to redirect river water for irrigation purposes. These artificial shortcuts are called &#8216;Kawamawashi&#8217;, and are commonly seen in Chiba. They were made from the 1600&#8217;s until about 100 years ago.[\/vc_column_text][vc_gallery el_id=&#8221;gallery-176356&#8243; medias=&#8221;69,77,65,81,65791&#8243; gutter_size=&#8221;1&#8243; screen_lg=&#8221;1000&#8243; screen_md=&#8221;600&#8243; screen_sm=&#8221;480&#8243; single_width=&#8221;3&#8243; single_overlay_opacity=&#8221;50&#8243; single_padding=&#8221;2&#8243; lbox_caption=&#8221;yes&#8221; uncode_shortcode_id=&#8221;822561&#8243;][vc_column_text]<iframe style=\"border: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/embed?pb=!1m18!1m12!1m3!1d8883.773312879659!2d140.13060974368017!3d35.2531023078348!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!3m3!1m2!1s0x0%3A0x0!2zMzXCsDE1JzEwLjQiTiAxNDDCsDA4JzExLjQiRQ!5e1!3m2!1sen!2sjp!4v1471006539280\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/d\/u\/0\/embed?mid=11pCUjzXoaRxDw-MhDLFJJ-zyhEtv2480\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/iframe>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/1&#8243;][vc_single_image media=&#8221;67&#8243; media_width_percent=&#8221;100&#8243; css_animation=&#8221;alpha-anim&#8221;][vc_custom_heading]Umegase Keikoku and Yoroko Keikoku Gorge[\/vc_custom_heading][vc_column_text]This picturesque, rugged area has several hiking trails (including stream hiking), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67,"parent":0,"menu_order":13,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"portfolio_category":[],"class_list":["post-19","portfolio","type-portfolio","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ippei-janine.com\/tokyo-day-trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ippei-janine.com\/tokyo-day-trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ippei-janine.com\/tokyo-day-trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/portfolio"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ippei-janine.com\/tokyo-day-trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ippei-janine.com\/tokyo-day-trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ippei-janine.com\/tokyo-day-trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66109,"href":"https:\/\/ippei-janine.com\/tokyo-day-trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/19\/revisions\/66109"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ippei-janine.com\/tokyo-day-trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ippei-janine.com\/tokyo-day-trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"portfolio_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ippei-janine.com\/tokyo-day-trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_category?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}