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The site of Akai Well is one of five training sites remaining on Tomogashima Islands. The well is believed to have provided spring water with which Shugendo practitioners purified themselves before making the crossing to Torajima Island, where the two training sites Kannen-kutsu and Johon are located. The Kii no Kuni Meisho Zu-e, an early 19th century atlas of famous places in Kii, notes that “The seawater reaches here so there is no longer a well,” indicating that the well had already dried up by the end of the Edo Period (mid 19th century).