Kamuimisaki Cape

　　To tell the truth, I made a short stop at the cape last year when I had the trip with my motorcycle friend. I wanted to visit other places, but my wife had never seen the cape and so we visited here. This kind of view is never seen in my home, Ehime Prefecture.
　　Take a look at the third picture. According to the information panel aside, it seemed to be the ruin of the base of a radiodetector which was built in 1942. People who lived in Hokkaido have felt fear for Russian troops since long ago. Several incidents are recorded in connection with the Russian navy. The panel also says that the radio facility at the cape found the Russian fleet of Vladivostok off the coast of the cape and it triggered a serious panic on May 6th in 1904. I understood how serious people feared for Russia in those days.
　　Additionally, the coastline around the cape is known as fierce winter weather conditions and difficult terrain. On the way back to Yoichi, I held a short silence to the victims of the tunnel collapse at their memorial monument which had happened on a freezing cold day nearly 20 years ago.

(Vocabulary)
radiodetector  電波探知機