Hanasaki

Hanasaki lies on the Pacific side of the Nemuro Peninsula. Its Japanese name refers to a projecting cape, while an Ainu name for the place was Poronot, or great cape. At the shore, volcanic basalt has cooled into striking radial formations known as wheel stones: their joints spread outward like the spokes of a great wheel. The largest of these formations measures several meters across, exposed where the sea has cut into the rock.