Kannabe Volcanic Rock (Hyogo Prefecture) [Famous Stones of Japan]

God's Caldera Lava Stone

Kannabe volcanic rock

Kannabe Volcano is the youngest volcano in the Kinki region, having been active between 700,000 and 6,000 years ago.
It is an alkaline olivine basalt, a stone that has become magnetic when exposed to a magnetic field.
As its name suggests, the Kobe Steel site is a crater shaped like a god's pot, with a caldera-like depression visible.
Caldera means "pot" in Spanish, and it is an interesting story that it was also named "Mountain of the Pots of God" in Japan.
It is said that in ancient times it was also called Kannabiyama (Mountain of Divine Fire).

Kannabe Volcano is the youngest volcano in the Kinki region and was active between 700,000 and 6,000 years ago. It is an alkali olivine basalt and is a stone that is magnetized by a magnetic field. As the name suggests, Kannabe has a crater shaped like pot of gods, and you can see a caldera-shaped depression. Caldera means "pot" in Spanish, and it is interesting that it happens to be named "Mountain of God's Pot" in Japanese as well. It is said that in ancient times it was also called Kannabiyama (Mountain of God's Fire).