Nippara calcareous cave
- West Tamagun Okutama cho Nippara.
- What prefecture is this?
- The place that we are in is now is Tokyo.
- There is a large cave.
- Really?
- Did you know it?
- That is an entrance.
- Wow.
- Uh-uh.
- I'm waiting here.
- Did you play hide-and-seek as a child?
- I didn't hide in the cave.
- I wait here.
- Okay, wait there.
- With a bear.
- Bear?
- I go to the cave.
- Very large.
- Beautiful and mysterious.
- Hey, There is something.
- What is there?
- Who dug this hole?
- This rock is limestone.
- It dissolved in rain and groundwater.
- So what?
- Nobody digs it.
- Natural cave.
- Stones such as the icicle are stalactite.
- It grows by three centimeters in 200 years.
- There are stones spreading from the bottom.
- The stones needs double time.
- It grows by three centimeters in 400 years.
- Hush!
- What's that?
- Do you hear any sound?
- Is there a speaker device?
- That is the Water koto cave.
- The sound that a drop of water hit a water in bottle.
- Musical instrument of the drop of water.
- Hot.
- The temperature is 11 degrees all the year over.
- It is cool in the summer.
- Buddhist priests trained himself in old days here.
- Hey, Where do you go to?
- I want to go back.
- The total extension of this cave is 1,270 meter.
- Do you still walk?
- I want to leave here.
- Where is an exit?
- There are stairs there.
- I don't want to climb it.
- I wait here.
- These stairs are very steep.
- The pitch difference is 134 meter.
- It is higher than a common building.
- This new cave was discovered in 1962.
- Don't do anything unnecessary.
- Did you come?
- This is because you are afraid.
- We walked for 40 minutes.
- Have a nice evening.
- Are you claustrophobia?
- Came back.
- Fuu fu.. I was stuffy. Let's go to Okutama lake.
