There is an enormous drawing in the sand here. The Zenigata at Kotohiki Park measures 122 metres east to west, 90 north to south and 345 around, according to Kanonji city, and it is shaped as an old Kanei-tsuho coin. It is maintained in sand, which means it is remade rather than preserved: the lines are raked back into shape by hand after weather disturbs them, so what you look at is never more than a few weeks old even though the design is centuries old.

The cherry trees number about two hundred, all of them Somei-yoshino.

The park also takes in two kilometres of white beach, which is not a thing most cherry sites can say.

Ariake, a shallow shelving coast, is on the national list of a hundred shores in exactly the way the cherry trees are on the national list of a hundred cherry sites. So this one place carries two separate designations and a giant coin drawn in sand. Two hundred trees is modest against most of the hundred, and that is probably the point. Nobody comes to Kotohiki only for the blossom, and the site was presumably not selected only for it either. The timing given on this page is not the city's; it comes from the weather record for Takamatsu.