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There were many flowers around houses of red tiles in Taketomi Island. The flowers looks more beautiful in this clear sky. I could see many flowers in other places such as roadsides, so here's a great place for people like flowers.
Name
Taketomi Island
Address
Taketomi-cho, Yaeyama-gun, OkinawaGoogle Map
How to get there
By express ferry, 10 min from Ishigaki Port Rito Terminal in Ishigaki Island.
30 minutes by ferry from Ishigaki Island, if you can see the pure white Shirahama shining in the place where the color of the sea changes, it is a phantom island. This island, which can only be reached by boat, has a beautiful view of the sea and blue sky. It is also a snorkeling spot.
Name
Hamajima, Phantom Island
Address
Taketomi-cho, Yaeyama-gun, OkinawaGoogle Map
How to get there
30 min by ferry, from Ishigaki Island
The opposite side of famous Kabira Bay. It's a beach known to only people in the know. It has the most transparent sea water in Ishigaki Island, and also many spots that make us want to take photos. This is where I always visit if the weather is fine.
Name
Kabira Bay
Address
934 Arakawa, Ishigaki-shi, OkinawaGoogle Map
How to get there
By bus, 40 min from Ishigaki Airport. By car, 35 min from Ishigaki Airport or 30 min from Ishigaki Port.
Parking
Free parking area is available
This glass architecture is an exchange center and an information desk at Ogi Port. Various letters form the roof, and its shadow changes every moment to create the beautiful scenery of Ogi Island.
Ookuno-shima is a small island in Seto Inland Sea. The island has a shadowy past that left a storehouse of poison gas and an electric power plant, but also has a bright side that over 700 rabbits welcome the visitors to the island. It's a precious island that is rare in the world.
Name
Okunoshima Island
Address
Tadaumi-cho, Takehara-shi, Hiroshima, Takehara-shi, HiroshimaGoogle Map
How to get there
This museum was opened on the concept of "coexistence of nature, art and architecture". And you can enjoy the modern art works and the building itself with the feeling of island's nature. For it stands on a hill, you can see the nice seascape from the terrace.◎Access: from the nearest bus stop 'Tsutsuji-so', you can use free shuttle bus or go on foot. Or go by bicycle from a port. Admission Fee: ￥1030 No photo inside the museum.
Name
Benesse House Museum
Address
Godanji Naoshima-cho, Kagawa-gun, KagawaGoogle Map
Tel
087-892-3223
Hours
8:00-21:00
How to get there
Bus: get off at Tsutsuji-so, then change to a free shuttle bus. Bicycle: 30 or 40 min from Miyaura Port.
Stand on the beach of fluffy and powdered-sands. When you feel the breeze and sounds of southern island, the travel for only you stay away form the daily life, will start. Why don't you have a good time to gaze the beautiful sea all day long?
Name
Toguchi-no Hama Beach
Address
1352−16 Irabu Irabu-cho, Miyakojima-shi, OkinawaGoogle Map
How to get there
Car: 25min from Miyako Airport, 10min from Sarahama Airport. Bus: get off at 'Dakifuga', then walk 10min.
A white huge stainless steel art got an idea from the 28th new island of Naoshima Island. You can enter the art and feel like floating in the sky. Taking pictures as your imaginative way.◎Near Miyanoura Port. You can enjoy for free. Let's go to see it first after you arrive by a ferry.
Name
Naoshima Pavilion
Address
Naoshima-cho, Kagawa-gun, KagawaGoogle Map
How to get there
The roadside near Miyaura Port
30 min from Shin Ishigaki Airport, there's a trail between the mountains, and 15 or 20 min climb to the top! The trail was narrower than I expected, but I had a great sense of achievement when I arrived the top!
Name
Mount Nosoko
Address
Nosoko, Ishigaki-shi, OkinawaGoogle Map
How to get there
60 min by car from Shin Ishigaki Airport, then 20 min walk from the parking area.
Parking
Parking area is available
The heart-rock of Amami Oshima Island is located at the Bira Beach in Tatsugo town near the airport. Also, near a delicious gelato shop La Fonte. Park your car, and walk 5 min in the woods, then you can find the beach in front of you. Many tide pools appear when the tide in on the ebb, and this heart-rock is one of them. We could visit here on the day of spring tide, we could see the most beautiful heart-rock.
Name
Heart Rock Amami Oshima
Address
1346-1 Akaogi, Tatsugo-cho, Oshima-gun, KagoshimaGoogle Map
How to get there
15 min by car from Amami Oshima Airport
Parking
Parking area is available
The sea on Comino, Malta. It's shallow, children can enjoy it, and the transparency is great. You have to go by boat from Malta, but if you come to Malta you should definitely visit here!
Name
Blue Lagoon
Address
Comino Island, MaltaGoogle Map
How to get there
20 min by ferry, from Ċirkewwa, Malta
Yakushima Island registered as a world heritage site. I could enjoy trekking in the great nature completely surrounded with greens, which we can't experience in towns.
Name
Yakushima Island
Address
Yakushima, Kumage-gun, KagoshimaGoogle Map
The beautiful blue ocean that we can't find the boundary between the sky. It's so beautiful that I never get tired of looking it for even many hours. You can find a rare beach that appears only when the tide is low. I could feel refreshed with this scenery.
Name
Shimoji Airport 17 End
Address
1727 Sawada Irabu, Miyakojima-shi, OkinawaGoogle Map
How to get there
Car: 32min from Miyako Airport, 20min from Sarahama Airport
Parking
Parking area is available
Yuriga-hama is a beach appears alone in the clear sea. I can't stop getting excited while I head for the beach by a boat. We can feel so relaxed with the beautiful ocean and great time that we'll forget to find famous 'star sands'.
Name
Yoron Island Yuriga-hama Beach
Address
Yoron-cho, Oshima-gun, KagoshimaGoogle Map
How to get there
20 min by car or taxi from Yoron Airport to Ooganeku Beach, then, 1.5 km by boat.
According to one theory, this shrine enshrined Toyotama-hime who is a grandmother of the first Japanese Emperor Kammu, and known as a god for an easy delivery of baby. The scenery from the shrine is nice and cats living in Ogi-jima Island will give you a balm.◎A small hill overlooking the Seto Inland Sea. Whenever you visit, cats are napping here. You can arrive the shrine eventually when you walk around the Ogi Island without searching for, because there're some signboards all over the community.
Ogi-jima Island Lighthouse is unpainted and made from high quality 'Aji Stone' mined in Kagawa. It's selected as one of the 50 best lighthouses in Japan. The beautiful Seto Inland Sea makes the symbol of Ogi Island more attractive.◎Access: 15 min by bicycle from Oji Port. You can go on foot, too. On the way to the lighthouse, you can see the nice view of Setouchi.
One of the 100 Scenic Spots In Kagawa, a torii stands on Gotanji Beach and faces to Seto Inland Sea. It's near an art work 'Pumpkin', so meny people enjoy taking pictures of this scenery.◎Access: at a beach just near a bus stop 'Tsutsuji-so'
Name
Ebisu Shrine
Address
Gotanji Naoshima-cho, Kagawa-gun, KagawaGoogle Map
How to get there
Bus: get off the bus at Tsutsuji-so, just right there. Bicycle: 30 min from Miyaura Port.
Yonahamaeyama Beach is famous for the beautiful blue ocean of course, and good spot to see sunset. We can enjoy great view all day from morning to night here.
Name
Yonaha Maehama Beach
Address
Yonaha Shimoji, Miyakojima-shi, OkinawaGoogle Map
How to get there
15 min by car or taxi from Miyako Airport.
Parking
Free parking area is available
Nao-shima Island has many photogenic art works. Among them, the most popular one created in 1994 by Yayoi Kusama.
Name
Pumpkin
Address
3419 Kyonoyama Naoshima-cho, Kagawa-gun, KagawaGoogle Map
How to get there
Bus: get off the bus at Tsutsuji-so, then walk 3 min. Bicycle: 30 min from Miyaura Port.
Zamami Island, Okinawa Prefecture. An island full of charm. You can relax and play in the sea. It's beautiful. It's an island full of coral, sand, water, and everything else.
Name
Furuzamami Beach
Address
Zamami-son, Shimajiri-gun, OkinawaGoogle Map
How to get there
20 min walk from Zamami Port
This is a little-known beach near Kabira Bay. You have to go through a rattling road to get here, but the spectacular view that awaits you.
Name
Kabira Tabaga
Address
Kabira, Ishigaki Island, Okinawa, JapanGoogle Map
How to get there
35 min by car, from Ishigaki Airport
