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Heart Rock

Heart Rock, which appears quietly from the sea only for about 1 hour before and after low tide on the steep rocky shore of the beautiful Akaogi coast of Tatsugo Town, is a miraculous "heart-shaped natural tide pool" that beach enthusiasts and lovers from all over the world admire, created by the fierce rough waves of the Pacific Ocean over many years carving Ryukyu limestone. The beautiful heart-shaped water surface filled with emerald green seawater with outstanding transparency is overwhelmingly photogenic, glittering in the sunlight, and is globally popular on SNS. The path walking through the beautiful white sand beach...

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Kaganbana Tunnel

Kaganbana Tunnel

Kaganbana Tunnel, standing tall on the road running along the coast near the beautiful Maru village of Tatsugo Town, is a compact old hand-dug tunnel with a total length of only 29 meters, but it is a superb power spot that is extremely miraculous and very rare even globally, where "the sunset fits perfectly in the middle of the tunnel hole" only for a few specific days in spring (around March) and autumn (around September) every year. At dusk, the beautiful golden sun silently sinking beyond the horizon penetrates the tunnel in a straight line, and the mysterious sight that...

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Akina Taiwan Cherry Tree-lined Road

Akina Taiwan Cherry Tree-lined Road

Akina Taiwan Cherry Tree-lined Road, spreading along a beautiful road in the mountains connecting the Akina/Ankyaba districts of Tatsugo Town, is a very romantic and beautiful superb view spot where you can feel the arrival of spring earliest in Japan. Around January to February every year, many Taiwan cherry trees (Hikan-zakura) planted along the road bloom beautiful deep pink flowers all at once, and the contrast with the lush green subtropical mountain surface and the deep blue East China Sea spreading below is breathtakingly beautiful. It captivates travelers and photographers from all over the world as a superb view that...

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Ikuri district

"Ikuri" village, adjacent to the Akina district of Tatsugo Town, is a hidden secret area where particularly rich traditional culture and simple rural atmosphere remain beautifully in Amami Oshima, nurtured by beautiful mountains and clean spring water. Here, old Fukugi tree-lined roads and stone walls, which islanders have carefully protected for staggering years, continue in an orderly manner, and just walking through them wraps you in a deep emotion as if you had slipped through time. There is overwhelming silence 100% unrelated to city noise and commercialism, and you can experience traveling as if you were living while listening to...

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Akina district

Akina/Ikuri district, gently spreading in the deep mountains of Tatsugo Town, Amami Oshima, is the sacred hometown of Amami's unique deep spiritual culture, where the traditional festival for a good harvest "Akina Arasetsu Events (Shochokama/Hirase Mankai)," which is also designated as a National Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property, is still sacredly inherited. The vast beautiful rural landscape harmonizes beautifully with the surrounding steep mountains, and the moment you step in, you are wrapped in the good old Japanese original landscape and nostalgia. Strolling through the village where traditional thatched one-story buildings and old stone walls remain is highly acclaimed by...

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Kuba district

Kuba district, located in Tatsugo Town, Amami Oshima, is a hidden famous spot for traditional "Shima (village) culture" where idyllic island time flows slowly, sandwiched between beautiful emerald green seas and lush green subtropical mountains. The biggest highlight of this area is the point where you can directly touch the spirituality of artisans who have supported the roots of traditional hand-weaving and mud dyeing of the world's highest peak silk fabric "Authentic Oshima Tsumugi" and the rustic atmosphere of a simple fishing village. If you stroll along the coast feeling the pleasant sea breeze, you will encounter beautiful traditional Fukugi...

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Maru district

Maru district, quietly standing in Tatsugo Town, Amami Oshima, is the ultimate hideaway area where untouched primitive beautiful natural scenery and unique old village culture are carefully protected, facing the round, beautiful, and calm circular bay as its name suggests. Inside the bay, the sea boasting very high transparency shining in ultramarine blue spreads out, and nature tours quietly paddling SUP or sea kayak are very popular among international tourists. In the village, rows of houses with heavy stone walls piled up from ancient times to protect houses from typhoons and sea breezes remain, and you can deeply learn traditional...

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Ankyaba district

Ankyaba district

Ankyaba district, located in Tatsugo Town, Amami Oshima, is a hidden superb scenic area where rich natural environments such as the "Akina Taiwan Cherry Tree-lined road," which dyes the entire mountain surface in vivid pink in winter along the beautiful coastline overlooking the East China Sea, and the emotion of simple island life are comfortably fused. Along the coastline, a very transparent emerald green reef (coral reef) spreads out, never ceasing to attract overseas beach enthusiasts who want to enjoy top-class snorkeling and sea kayaking. In the village landscape where screw pine fruits, which are traditional windbreaks, and giant banyan...

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Yairi district

Yairi district, located in Tatsugo Town, Amami Oshima, is a hidden port town area where idyllic island time and simple "Shima (village) culture" still breathe beautifully, embraced by the rich mountains of World Natural Heritage and beautiful coastlines. Behind the village, deep subtropical primeval forests where valuable wild endemic species such as the Amami rabbit live spread out, and you can deeply immerse yourself in the primitive vitality of the earth while slowly strolling along the lush green promenade. Also, the beautiful village townscape filled with unique traditional agriculture and the wisdom of the warm islanders is nostalgia itself. In...

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Yonama Beach

Yonama Beach, gently spreading in Amagi Town, Tokunoshima, a World Natural Heritage island, is one of the island's leading superb beach resorts rich in tropical atmosphere, where the emerald green sea, transparent as far as the eye can see, and the pure white sandy beach spread beautifully in a bow shape. Beautiful reefs (coral reefs) spread right in front of the beach, and because the waves are surprisingly calm, you can safely enjoy marine activities such as snorkeling, sea kayaking, and SUP to your heart's content. Once you dive in, it is very popular among international tourists as a hidden...

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Kanemizaki Observatory

Kanemizaki Observatory

Kanemizaki Observatory, located on a small high ground in the Kanemi district at the northernmost tip of Tokunoshima, is one of the most beautiful superb scenic spots on the island where you can overlook the vast Pacific Ocean and East China Sea ocean view at once. The beautiful promenade leading to the observatory is a primitive subtropical evergreen forest where sago palms, which are national natural monuments, grow thick in many layers like a green tunnel, and you can experience the vitality of great nature just by walking. From the observation area on the summit, on a clear day, you...

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Hyakudai Observatory

Hyakudai Observatory

Hyakudai Observatory, located on a magnificent raised coral reef plateau about 211 meters above sea level spreading in the central part of Kikai Town (Kikai Island) in the Amami Islands, is the highest scenic spot on the island where you can overlook the panorama of vast sugarcane fields and the grand ocean view of the vast Pacific Ocean and East China Sea without any obstructions at once. Standing in the observation area of this vast Hyakudai Park, which is also designated as a national scenic spot, you can realistically feel the roundness of the earth without any obstructions. The beautiful...

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Yakomo Beach

Yakomo Beach, gently located in the southern part of Okinoerabujima (China Town), is one of the island's leading superb beach resorts rich in tropical atmosphere, where the emerald green sea, transparent as far as the eye can see, and the pure white sandy beach spread beautifully in a bow shape. Along the coastline, beautiful lush green sago palm forests and screw pines are lined up in an orderly manner as windbreaks, and the contrast between the blue sky and the sea is very photogenic. Because it is surrounded by vast coral reefs, the waves are surprisingly calm, and you can...

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Mt. Miyanoura

Mt. Miyanoura, standing steeply in the central part of Yakushima, is the "highest peak in the Kyushu region" boasting an altitude of 1,936 meters, and is a sacred famous peak located in the core of the World Natural Heritage site, Yakushima, which full-scale climbers from all over the world admire. The hiking trekking on this mountain, often called the Alps on the ocean, is the biggest charm because the dynamic vertical distribution ecosystem changes from steep subtropical forests to huge granite megaliths without any obstructions and beautiful alpine plant grasslands near the summit. The 360-degree panoramic view from the summit...

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Yakujinja Shrine

Yakujinja Shrine

Yakujinja Shrine, standing dignifiedly in the Miyanoura area of Yakushima, is an ancient sacred shrine of extremely high pedigree, whose name is engraved even in historical books from the distant Heian period, and has been deeply revered for a long time as the "Ichinomiya" (the most prestigious shrine) at the southernmost tip of Japan. The biggest feature is the deep Japanese spiritual world of natural worship that still breathes beautifully, enshrining the magnificent mountains of Yakushima, starting with the highest peak of the World Natural Heritage, "Mt. Miyanoura," as huge gods themselves. Inside the shrine precincts surrounded by deep green...

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Kusugawa Trail

Kusugawa Trail, located in the northeastern part of Yakushima, is a very popular nature trekking route where even beginners and foreign hikers can safely and easily feel the breath of the primeval forest, utilizing an old historical road opened by islanders in the Edo period for life and transport of Yakusugi cedar. The landscape where old stone pavements covered with beautiful moss, giant tree roots like thick wooden beams, and clear streams harmonize invites you to a fantasy world as if you had slipped through time the moment you step in. This beautiful trail leading to Shiratani Unsuikyo is filled...

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Taiko-iwa

Taiko-iwa, standing resolutely at the deepest part of Shiratani Unsuikyo Gorge on Yakushima at an altitude of about 1,050 meters, is a superb power spot at the island's highest peak that hikers from all over the world admire, where a huge granite rock head protrudes literally like a drum. When you climb the steep primeval forest mountain trail with a spirit of adventure and step one foot on the rock, you can overlook the vast panorama of the deep mountains' peaks, including the highest peak in Kyushu, Mt. Miyanoura, and the endless spreading primeval forest from the best angle below...

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Yakushima Town

Yakushima Town, consisting of two remote islands, "Yakushima," which is registered as a World Natural Heritage site, and "Kuchinoerabujima," where the romance of Japan's cutting-edge science breathes, is the world's highest level nature adventure resort where untouched overwhelming primitive great nature lives. Dynamic mountain landscapes, such as deep primeval forests possessing "Jomon Sugi" (Jomon Cedar) with an age of several thousand years, "Shiratani Unsuikyo Gorge" covered deep and beautiful with moss on one side, and the highest peak in Kyushu, Mt. Miyanoura, fascinate hikers from all over the world. It is full of highlights such as kayaking in clear mountain...

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Kajihiki-oka

Kajihiki-oka (Hajipikipan), spreading on a high ground at an altitude of about 60 meters, the highest in the island, almost in the center of Yoron Island, is a sacred panoramic power spot where a legend remains that in the distant mythological era, the gods of Ryukyu hooked their rudder on the coral reef when they passed by in a boat, and it uplifted to create Yoron Island. When you stand on the hill, a 360-degree large screen without any obstructions spreads out, and on a sunny day, you can overlook even the beautiful silhouettes of Okinawa Main Island and surrounding...

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Kurobana Beach

Kurobana Beach, standing quietly in the northeastern part of Yoron Island, is a coastal scenic spot with a dynamic landscape where rugged, wild Ryukyu limestone rocks, carved by the rough waves of the Pacific Ocean over staggering years, and fine white sandy beaches weave alternately. This is a place of historical romance where the island's unique traditional wooden boats (Sabani) once came and went, and a somewhat nostalgic feeling drifts. The surrounding sea has very high transparency, and nature tours strolling through emerald green shallows are very popular among international tourists. In the overwhelming silence completely free from commercialization, it...

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Yoron Town

Yoron Town, located at the southernmost tip of Kagoshima Prefecture, is a beautiful tropical paradise island formed by the uplift of coral reefs, surrounded by the sea of "Yoron Blue" shining in ultramarine blue. The experience at "Yurigahama," a phantom white sandy beach that appears from the sea only for a few hours before and after low tide, is highly acclaimed by beach enthusiasts from all over the world as the last paradise on earth. White buildings reminiscent of Mykonos, Greece, line up beautifully in the town, and traditional hospitality such as the unique warm islander culture "Yoron Kenpo" is...

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Oyama Campsite

Oyama Campsite, surrounded by the rich green of Oyama (altitude about 240 meters), the highest peak of Okinoerabujima (China Town), is a hidden hideaway campsite in the sky known only to those in the know, where you can overlook untouched subtropical primeval forests and the vast emerald green sea spreading below. Inside the grounds, giant banyan trees and rare tropical plants grow thick, and the moment you step in, you are wrapped in overwhelming forest silence and pure air. At night, it is very popular among international tourists as a "sacred place of starry sky" where you can luxuriously monopolize...

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China Town

China Town, located in the western part of Okinoerabujima, is a paradise of secret regions known only to those in the know, where rich subtropical great nature energy and mysterious underground worlds spread. On the island, there are hundreds (200-300) of limestone caves spreading deep underground, and full-scale caving (cave exploration) exploring the formative beauty of the underground shining like crystal glass is highly acclaimed by international tourists as a supreme adventure. Also, in the simple village townscape where giant banyan trees stand, idyllic island time flows, and in diving, the encounter rate with sea turtles along with beautiful coral...

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Wadomari Town

Wadomari Town, located in the eastern part of the beautiful remote island Okinoerabujima, formed by the uplift of coral reefs floating in the southern part of the Amami Islands, is a remote island area attracting attention from all over the world as an "Island of Flowers and Limestone Caves," where rich tropical plants beautifully color the town. The biggest highlight is the full-scale "Caving" tour where you push through the galaxy of the large underground limestone cave, which boasts the highest total length in Japan, with just one helmet, and it captivates active overseas people seeking authentic adventure. On the...

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