Ship sails by big whirlpool in Naruto Strait, western Japan

Ship sails by big whirlpool in Naruto Strait, western Japan

A passenger ship sails by whirling waves in the Naruto Strait off Tokushima Prefecture, western Japan, on March 7, 2015. The strait between Awaji Island, Hyogo Prefecture, and Naruto city, Tokushima Prefecture, is known for its spectacularly large whirlpools. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

  • Product Code
  • ILEA000065203
  • Registered date
  • 2015/3/07 12:08:43
  • Credit
  • Kyodo / Kyodo News Images
  • Media source
  • Media size
  • 2076 × 3179 pixel
  • Resolution
  • 240 dpi
  • Deployment size
  • 1.61(MB)*
  • Special instruction

*File size when opened in Photoshop, etc.

Similar Images & Videos
    Body scanner tested at western Japan airport

    Body scanner tested at western Japan airport

    The monitor of a body scanner at Kansai International Airport off Osaka, western Japan, is shown to the press on Oct. 14, 2015, a day before the start of a test run. The device uses radio waves to see through passengers' clothes and displays suspicious objects (yellow square at the waist) on the monitor, which shows a human figure instead of the passenger's real body for privacy reasons. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
      Ex-crew member of post-WWII evacuation ship recalls ordeal

      Ex-crew member of post-WWII evacuation ship recalls ordeal

      Shinji Hirata, a resident in Okayama city, western Japan, recounts his experience as a crew member aboard a ship carrying Japanese citizens home from the Korean Peninsula after the end of World War II, as seen in this photo taken on Nov. 23, 2014. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
        Japan students from quake-hit region study wave power in Britain

        Japan students from quake-hit region study wave power in Britain

        Six senior students from Japan's Kamaishi High School greet an executive of a British marine engineering company in the port town of Stromness on the Orkney Islands off the northern coast of Scotland on Aug. 24, 2015. The students from the northeastern Japanese city of Kamaishi, ravaged by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster, visited the company and the European Marine Energy Center to learn about their research and development on power generation from waves and tidal movements. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
          Aizen Festival starts in Osaka

          Aizen Festival starts in Osaka

          "Aizen Musume," a queen of Aizen Festival, waves to the crowd in Osaka on June 30, 2015, during the traditional festival heralding the advent of summer in the western Japan city. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
            Aizen Festival starts in Osaka

            Aizen Festival starts in Osaka

            "Aizen Musume," a queen of Aizen Festival, waves to the crowd in Osaka on June 30, 2015, during the traditional festival heralding the advent of summer in the western Japan city. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
              Lesbian waves rainbow flag for sexual minorities in Aomori, north Japan

              Lesbian waves rainbow flag for sexual minorities in Aomori, north Japan

              Shoko Usami waves a rainbow flag as her partner Miho Okada (R) talks through a loudspeaker in front of their cafe for sexual minorities in the city of Aomori, northern Japan, as seen in this photo taken on April 26, 2015. The rainbow symbolizes the pride of LGBT, short for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
                Gilded boat sails in moat around Osaka Castle at tourism blitz event

                Gilded boat sails in moat around Osaka Castle at tourism blitz event

                An old Japanese-style excursion boat with a gilded roof sails in the moat around Osaka Castle in the western Japanese city on April 24, 2015, in a 20-minute demonstration cruise for reporters a day before its opening to the public as a tourism promotion event marking the 400th anniversary of the 1615 feudal war that besieged Osaka. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
                  Shadowgraph artist's work of stranded ship after 2011 disaster in northern Japan

                  Shadowgraph artist's work of stranded ship after 2011 disaster in northern Japan

                  Shadow picture artist Seiji Fujishiro's work of a big fishing vessel washed up in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, after the 2011 tsunami that hit the northeastern Japanese region is on display at a special exhibition at the Fukuoka City Museum in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan, on April 10, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
                    Hakodate city gathers many signatures against Oma nuke plant

                    Hakodate city gathers many signatures against Oma nuke plant

                    Mayor Toshiki Kudo (L) of Hakodate in Hokkaido Prefecture and local community group leader Tadashi Shinya see in the northern Japanese city on March 20, 2015, a list of signatures from 146,184 people against Electric Power Development Co.'s construction of a nuclear power plant in Oma, Aomori Prefecture, across the Tsugaru Strait. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
                      Mock golden key put into sea to open whirlpool tourism season

                      Mock golden key put into sea to open whirlpool tourism season

                      Naruto whirlpool ambassador Wakana Kishimoto (L) and Queen Awaji Mika Fujiwara hoist a mock golden key on March 7, 2015, before putting it into the western Japan sea between Naruto in Tokushima Prefecture and Awaji in Hyogo Prefecture in a ceremony marking the start of the tourism season to watch whirling waves in the Naruto Straight. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo