Ryūgū-jō, the Dragon Palace, lies within Tokoyo, the eternal realm beneath the sea.
The Tokoyo no Naganakidori, long-crowing roosters from the eternal realm of Tokoyo, were gathered to crow before Ama-no-Iwato as part of the gods' ritual to herald a false dawn and lure Amaterasu from the cave (Kojiki).
After helping Ōkuninushi build the world, the tiny god Sukuna-bikona departed from Cape Kumano, flinging himself from a stalk of millet into the sea and vanishing to Tokoyo, the Eternal Land beyond the waves.
Tajimamori crossed the sea to Tokoyo, the Eternal Land, and brought back the tokijiku no kakitsu no konomi — the ever-fragrant fruit of immortality — only to return too late, finding his emperor dead and dying of grief upon his tomb.
The Nihon Shoki identifies Urashima Tarō's destination as Tokoyo, the Eternal Land beyond the sea. His journey to and from Tokoyo — where time stands still — is the defining episode of his legend.
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