Best Spots With Great Nature In Kagoshima

Blue-Heart Appears Only At The Low TideHeart Rock Amami Oshima

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.

Mystery Of Mossy Forest Reminds Us 'Princess Mononoke'Shiratani Unsui Gorge

I like a movie 'Princess Mononoke' by Hayao Miyazaki, and I walked in Yakushima Island's Shiratani Unsui Gorge that is said to be a model of the movie. Its inner place is called 'Mononoke Forest', and I was very impressed with the great forest covered completely with moss!◎Access by bus or taxi

A Tree Stump Looks Heart Shape You See From The InsideYakushima Island

It's a Yaku-sugi cedar named Wilson stump. I could enter the inside and it looks heart shape seen up the sky from a certain angle.

Seaside Path Like A Paradise Of Flowers And ButterfliesTomori Coast

The north part of Amami Oshima Island, in a path along the Tomori seashore, many tropical flowers bloom and ceylon blue glassy tiger butterflies flutter around the flowers. The scenery is like a paradise. It'll be wonderful to walk in the morning.

Beautiful Primeval Forest With Mangrove Tunnels You Can Go Through By CanoeKuroshio no Mori Mangrove Park

You can enjoy canoe when the tide is high at a primeval forest of mangrove in Amami. The most impressive is the mangrove tunnel! Let's enjoy going slowly, but be careful not to bump. ◎To Amami Oshima, you can access by plane and ferry, and then, car and bus are available.

Completely Transparent Sea & White Beach Appears Only A Few HoursYoron Island Yuriga-hama Beach

In Kagoshima, I find much more beautiful scenery than those of southern resort in other countries.

Ever Changing Gradation Of Blue. Early Summer White Beach In AmamiSakihara Beach

A quiet beach at the cape of northern Amami. For not easy way to go, there's a few people there and it's like a private beach. I can't get tired of seeing the beautiful emerald green gradation all day long.

The Quiet & Beautiful Blue Ocean Spreading To The HorizonKurasaki Beach

Kurasaki Beach is very transparent and a popular spot for snorkeling and diving. Just walking around is pleasant. The fruit of adan makes the tropical atmosphere. If you stay in a nearby hotel Native Sea Amami, you can access directly to the sea.

The Location Spot Of 'Saigo-don'! Great Panoramic View Of Green & BlueMiyakozaki Cape

Miyakozaki Cape, projects from the center of west seashore of Amami Oshima Islad, has the 360-degrees panoramic view of blue and green. Going ahead in the bamboo-like meadow, there's the East Chine Sea expanding so far away. It needs 20 min walk from the parking area, but you can have the supreme feeling when you arrive. I found a endangered species Taiwan Mountain Azalea.

Mysterious Maruo Waterfall IlluminationMaruonotaki Falls

Maruo Falls, located in Maruo Onsen, one of the Kirishima hot spring villages, is a hot spring waterfall that is worth seeing even during the day, but it is very beautiful at night when it is lit up. I spent some time looking at the waterfall, healed by the sound of the waterfall and negative ions.

Mails From The Southernmost Place In Japan! A Yellow Mailbox Delivering HappinessNishioyama Station

Nishioyama Station is the southernmost station of JR. It has a nice view of Kaimon-dake mountain, and also a yellow mailbox that delivers you happiness. How about sending your special feelings from the southernmost station?

Only Your Footprints On the Beach! An Uninhabited Beach You Can Land Only By A KayakKakeroma Island

Kakeroma Island has a complicated topography and there are uninhabited white sand beaches studded. By a kayak to the beach you can't go by land. On the morning of that day, the wave is so calm that I enjoyed the clear water surface riding on a kayak I borrowed from a hotel.

The Contrast Of The Ocean & Sky At A Southernmost Island In KagoshimaŌkaneku Beach

An isolated island in southernmost Kagoshima, Yoron Island. The clear ocean and sky always welcome you. I was unconscious of the passage of time and looked the ocean and the sky.

An Impressive God's Rock 'Kobatachigami' As High As A 30 Storied BuildingGaja Island

Kobatachigami is a symbol of Gajo Island called God's rock as high as more than 100 meters. Around the rock is a popular spot for fishing and diving.

Mitarai River Near Kirishima Shrine Kirishima Shrine

There is Mitarai River when you go down Kirishima Shrine. There is a mysterious place without people, I visited in September. The water is crystal clear, cold and fast flowing. It seems that there is almost no water from November to April and it is dry.

A View Spot We Can See Various Blue SceneryManenzaki Observatory

At Manenzaki Observatory in the south of Amami Oshima Island, we can see various blue landscapes. Katetsu Bay of emerald green and blue, Oshima Strait of deeper blue. The colors change by the angles we see them. What's more, we can see Kakeroma Island on the opposite side, so there's a succession of beautiful scenery!

A Beautiful Satsuma Fuji Mountain Seen From A Walking Path Made Of Volcanic RocksNagasakibana

Although it called a walking path, it's broken and rough, so you have to walk with sneakers. You can walk very near to the sea.

A Dynamic Waterfall Where Sakamoto Ryoma Visited On Their HoneymoonInukai Falls

A waterfall flows down dynamically in front of the Takachiho Mountains. You can go closely to the waterfall and see the back of it.