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Kitaema Cave Tombs

Izunokuni, Japan

The Kitaema Cave Tombs (Kitaema Yokoana-kofun gun) is an archaeological site containing the ruins of a final Kofun period to early Nara period necropolis in what is now part of the city of Izunokuni, Shizuoka, in the Tōkai region of Japan. The site was designated a National Historic Site of Japan in 1976, with the area under protection expanded in 1985.

Monument data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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