Big Zelkova Tree in Ebina

This gigantic tree is estimated to be 570 years old. Legend has it that once upon a time when Sagami Bay cut deep into the inland, this area was a cove. One day, a fisherman drove a stake of zelkova upside down into the ground to moor his boat; the branch took root in the ground, grew up, and stretched into this size. Thereby this tree is also called the inverted keyaki (zelkova).