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This beach had pumice rocks (軽石) creating artistic patterns on the sand. They were still washing up on the beach in June 2022, but not as much as in Oct. 2021 when they clogged harbors and blanketed beaches.

On Amami-Oshima, Kagoshima, Amami Resort Basyayama-mura beach had pumice that came from an undersea volcano (Fukutoku-Okanoba) erupting near the Ogasawara islands (way south of Tokyo).

Pumice rocks are small, lightweight, porous pebbles. Floats on water. Saw it for the first time here.

In 2021, an army of volunteers took weeks to clean up Okinawan and Amami beaches. It was almost like cleaning up an oil spill. Glad the problem has subsided.

Pumice pebbles on a beach in Amami-Oshima, Kagoshima, Japan.

Someone had recently raked or cleaned up the pumice.

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