About the place
Yoshimi Hundred Caves (吉見百穴?, Yoshimi Hyakketsu) is a cluster of Kofun period graves dug in artificial caves in a tuff cliff of located in Yoshimi, Saitama, in the northern Kantō region of Japan. It was designated as a National Historic Site on March 7, 1923.[1] The Schistostega moss growing at the site was also designated as a Natural Monument of Japan on November 30, 1928.[2]