Best Tourist Spots In Shodoshima-Island
Here're best Tourist Spots in Shodoshima-Island. We released a ranking of reviews about Tourist Spots posted by travel influencers who have actually been to Shodoshima-Island.
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Located at Shodoshima Olive Park, The Greek Windmill was built as a proof of a sister island to Milos Island. And this windmill facing to the beautiful Seto Inland Sea and surrounded with olive trees is a best place to take pictures in Shodoshima Island.◎Access: 5 min walk from a free parking lot of a Road Station: Shodoshima Olive Park. You can also walk from a neighboring Olive Garden.
Name
Shodoshima Olive Park
Address
1941-1 Ko Nishimura Shodoshima-cho, Shozu-gun, KagawaGoogle Map
Tel
0879-82-2200
Hours
8:30-17:00
How to get there
Bus: get off at 'Olive Koen Guchi (Olive Park Gate)', then walk 5 min. Car: 7 min by car from Kusakabe Port.
Parking
Free parking area is available
The sand beach appearing by the tidal range is called Angel Road, and it's said that lovers who cross this road by holding hands can become happy. I recommend to visit here at romantic dusk.◎2 times in a day, you can cross the road during 2 hours before and after low tide. You need to check the time of low tide beforehand.
Name
Angel Road
Address
Yoshima Tonosho-cho, Shozu-gun, KagawaGoogle Map
How to get there
Bus: 10 min from Tonosho Port, get off at 'Kokusai Hotel'. Car: 8 min by car from Tonosho Port and free parking area is available.
Parking
Free parking area is available
Kagawa's best autumn scenery, Kankakei Gorge. The beautiful and impressive view can be seen from the observatory as high as the top of Tokyo Sky Tree. Takatori Observatory offers the superb view!
Name
A national park Kankakei Gorge
Address
168 Otsu Kankakedori Shodoshima-cho, Shozu-gun, Kagawa, Shozu-gun, KagawaGoogle Map
How to get there
Parking
Free parking area is available
A movie studio of an open set in a movie 'Twenty Four Eyes'. It has retro photogenic scenery and also the view of Seto Inland Sea. Let's take picturesque photos here.◎Near the set of a school building.
Name
Twenty Four Eyes Movie Studio
Address
Tannoura Shodoshima-cho, Shozu-gun, KagawaGoogle Map
Tel
0879-82-2455
Hours
9:00-17:00
How to get there
Bus: gett off at 'Eigamura-mae (Studio Front). Car: 45min from Tonosho, 35min from Ikeda, 25min from Kusakabe, 15min from Sakate, 40min from Fukuda
Parking
Parking area is available
There is the only one such a beautiful landscape of rice terrace in Kagawa that is selected as the best 100 in Japan. As you see, the contrast between blue and green is nice. I think it symbolizes peaceful Shodoshima Island. As the roads to the photo spots are narrow, going on foot is better than by a car.
Name
Nakayama Senmaida
Address
1512-2 Nakayama Shodoshima-cho, Shozu-gun, KagawaGoogle Map
How to get there
Parking
Parking area is available
This huge olive tree bears flowers and fruits even now the age of 1000. The unique shape also has the strong life force. Located at a lookout point, it could be nice for you to sit on a bench near the tree and enjoy the Shodoshima Island's time passing slowly.◎Access: the signboard 'Olive Forest オリーブの森' on the 254th prefectural road. 7 min from Tonosho Port by car. You can see it for free.
Name
1000 Years Old Huge Olive Tree
Address
2580-1 Kou Tonosho-cho, Shozu-gun, KagawaGoogle Map
How to get there
Car: 7 min by car from Tonosho Port, enter from the signboard 'Olive Forest オリーブの森' on the 254th prefectural road.
Parking
Parking area is available
At a scenic spot of Shodoshima Island, Choshikei Valley, there're about 500 monkeys in Monkey Kingdom (Osaru-no kuni). Monkeys take soybeans directly from your hands, you can enjoy like taming the monkeys! And there're many soybeans for only 100 yen, so you can give all the monkeys getting together toward you!◎Admission fee: adult 380yen, child 190yen
Name
Choshikei Valley Monkey Kingdom
Address
3387-10 Kaerugo Hitoyama Tonosho-cho, Shozu-gun, KagawaGoogle Map
Tel
0879-62-0768
Hours
8:10-17:00
How to get there
Car: 20min from Tonosho Port, 35min from Kusakabe, 45min from Sakate, 45min from Fukuda. From the top of Kankakei Valley, it takes 15min by car.
Parking
Free parking area is available
A wall painting 'Shodoshima Engi Emaki' is one of the project of Setouchi International Art Festival. A painter Miki Okamura painted the concept of an artist Kenji Yabe. The close description is an art worth seeing. What's more, very Instagenic!◎It's located at Sakate Port of Shodoshima Jumbo Ferry.
Name
Sakate Port
Address
1849 Kou Sakate Shodoshima-cho, Shozu-gun, KagawaGoogle Map
How to get there
, Shodoshima-Island, Shozu-gun, Kagawa, Shikoku, Japan, Asia
Parking
Parking area is available
Joga-shima Island has a path that appears by the ebb and flow of the tide, just the same as a popular tourist spot Angel Road in Shodoshima. It's named 'Kibo-no Michi (Road Of Hope)', and has become more popular day by day. It's surrounded by beautiful clear seawater.
Name
Road Of Hope (Kibo no Michi)
Address
57 Otsu Tachibana Shodoshima-cho, Shozu-gun, KagawaGoogle Map
How to get there
Bus: get off at 'Nampudai'. Car: 15min from Fukuda Port
Kose Iwazuchi Shrine is located on the western edge of Shodo-shima Island. After climbing up the steep steps and slopes completely, you can find the wooden torii and the wonderful view at the same time. The beautiful scenery of Setouchi can make me refreshed after a kind of exercise.◎Parking lot: for free at the foot of the steps Access: 15 min walk to the mountain top
Name
Koseiwazuchi Shrine
Address
Kose Tonosho-cho, Shozu-gun, KagawaGoogle Map
How to get there
Car & Walk: 10min from Tonosho Port, and then 15min walk.
Parking
Parking area is available
Shodoshima Olive Garden is the birthplace of olive cultivation in Japan. Lovely paths encircled with pale green olive trees, and the beautiful scenery of Seto Inland Sea between the trees, that are the garden's attractions. They have a restaurant and a shop within the garden.◎Free parking lot. The similar 'A Road Station, Shodoshima Olive Park' adjoins here and you can walk across each other.
Name
Shodoshima Olive Garden
Address
2171 Ko Nishimura Shodoshima, Shozu-gun, KagawaGoogle Map
Tel
0879-82-4260
Hours
8:30-17:00
How to get there
Bus: get off at 'Olive Hill (Olive-ga Oka)'. Car: 20 min from Tonosho Port, 10 min from Ikeda, 5 min from Kusakabe, 15 min from Sakate, and 35 min from Fukuda.
Parking
Free parking area is available
Shimpaku is a kind of juniper and popular for Japanese 'Bonsai'. At Hosho-in Temple, this sacred tree is said to be 1500 years old and the only Shimpaku that designated as a special natural monument. It's like a tree where Totoro and Mei met for the first time (in Ghibli movie),and very mysterious.◎Free parking lot is available. The wooden path was equipped in 2017 for protect its roots, and you can walk around the tree easier.
Name
Hosho-in Temple
Address
412 Kitayama Tonosho-cho, Shozu-gun, KagawaGoogle Map
Tel
0879-62-0682
How to get there
Bus: from Tonosho Port, get off at 'Kitayama' and walk 3 min. Car: 10 min from Tonosho Port
Parking
Parking area is available
To rebuild Osaka Castle, many stones were quarried out from Shodoshima and carried to Osaka. Tengu-iwa Quarry Site is the largest one where we see the relic of that age. Otengu-iwa estimated to be 1700t is one of them, many impressive huge stones stand magnificently.
Name
Tengu-iwa Quarry Site
Address
Iwagateni Shodoshima-machi, Shozu-gun, KagawaGoogle Map
How to get there
Parking
Parking area is available
The Utsukushi no Hara Kogen is only plateau in Shodoshima and lucky altitude 777m. You can see the superb view with Setouchi sea and the sky and also famous Kankakei valley. So, you can feel energy of Shodoshima.
Name
Shihozashi Observation Deck
Address
1117 Otu Kensozan Kankake, Shozu-gun, KagawaGoogle Map
How to get there
Car: it's located on the way to Kankakei Valley via Shodoshima Sky Line, about 30 min from Tonosho Port.
Parking
Parking area is available
I felt like sitting on the sea. A sound of waves, breeze and birds singing. You could feel the sense of unity with the nature.
Name
Shodoshima Furusatomura
Address
2084-1 Muro Shodoshima-cho, Shozu-gun, KagawaGoogle Map
Tel
0879-75-2266
Hours
8:30-
How to get there
From each ports in Shodoshima, use car, bus or pic-up bus.
Parking
Parking area is available
Kodokutsu Cave is one of the sacred places in Shodoshima Island. You enter the cave from a gate with the calm sea, then the air changes completely. It's a popular spiritual power spot that is said to have a divine grace for luck with money and improvement of sickness above neck.◎The mysterious stone, looks coming into being, has a Buddhist letter 'A' and means the start of everything.
Name
Kodokutsu Cave
Address
3010 Yanagi Tonosho-cho, Shozu-gun, KagawaGoogle Map
Tel
0879-62-5211
Hours
9:00-16:00
How to get there
Car: 15 min by car and a free parkin area is available.
Parking
Free parking area is available
