Last Updated: Jul 22, 2024

The Site of Reversible Destiny

Gifu’s Bizarre Yoro Park

This story was originally published on donnykimball.com and has been syndicated here on Medium.

The subject of today’s post is an odd destination that has been on my to-visit list long before I started producing travel content in 2016. Known as the Site of Reversible Destiny, this peculiar attraction resides within Gifu Prefecture’s much larger Yoro Park. The space is a collaborative work fashioned by a pair of acclaimed architects in the late 1990s. While located a long way off the beaten path, the Site of Reversible Destiny is a unique spot that is definitely worth visiting if you’re looking to be dealt a new hand by fate.

Now, you, the reader, may be wondering how this strange spot got its rather unusual name. Here, you need to understand that the moniker “the Site of Reversible Destiny” is an homage to the installation that these two architects concocted within the confines of Yoro Park. Allegedly, based on years of long-term research, the pair concluded that alterations in bodily perception would lead to subsequent shifts in consciousness. To achieve this state, they arranged the abnormal landscape of the Site of Reversible Destiny to include as few horizontal lines as possible.

If we are to take the eccentric pair of architects that designed the Site of Reversible Destiny at their word, the space has the power to…