While walking around Niteko Pond, I found a road that suddenly gets narrow for a moment～
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From a distance, I thought someone’s private garden was jutting out into the road, but that wasn’t it.
An incredibly magnificent pine tree
It was a protected tree～. So the road had been narrowed to preserve this pine tree.
Tree name: Japanese black pine
It is called kuromatsu, or Japanese black pine, because its trunk is black. It is also found along the coast and is used as a windbreak forest.
Family: Pine family
Tree height: 15m
Trunk circumference: 262cm
Source: Protected Trees/Nishinomiya City Hall
Lastly
Apparently, a total of 135 trees of 23 different species are designated as protected trees in the city.
You can spot protected trees in all sorts of places, but ones that jut out into the road like this seem rare? So I thought I’d introduce it～
