Japan Rocket Origin Monument

It is a memorable start to Japan's space development! !! It was difficult to find.

Original Text

A monument on the coast of Yuri Honjo City, Akita Prefecture. There is a monument just off the coast from National Highway 7, but the entrance from National Highway 7 is difficult to understand. And the location of the monument is also difficult to understand. If you go to the beach, you will go too far, and there is a monument quietly on the left side toward the coast in front of it. The "Akita Rocket Experimental Station", which is a rocket launch site where the first domestic pencil rocket was launched to the sky in Japan, was the first. The facilities at that time were 1 ...