Page 4 - e-brochures about the Oki Islands 2024

Shirashima Coast
Rosoku-jima
(Candle Island)
Jōdogaura Coast
Okinoshima Town
(Dōgo Island) Japanese Cedar
Chichi-sugi
L ocated in the Sea of Japan 40–80 Dangyō-no-taki
Waterfalls
km north of Shimane Peninsula,
the Oki Islands are a collection of many Nagu-saki Cape Tamawakasu-mikoto Shrine
Oki Islands
small islets and four inhabited islands: Nishinoshima Town Geopark Museum
Dōgo Island, Nishinoshima Island, (Nishinoshima Island) Saigō-misaki
Lighthouse
Nakanoshima Island and Chiburijima
Island. Designated as a Global Geopark in
Geo Room Discover Akiya Coast
Kuniga Coast
2013, the islands became a UNESCO (Hotel Entô) Emperor Go-Toba Museum
Akao Yurahime Oki Shrine
Shrine
Global Geopark following recognition of Lookout Takuhi Ama Town
Shrine (Nakanoshima Island)
the geoparks as an o cial UNESCO label
in 2015. e region boasts a rich natural
Mt. Akahage Lookout
environment and is also part of the Sekiheki (Red Cliff) OKI
Shimazushima
Daisen-Oki National Park. Island ISLANDS
Chibu Village
(Chiburijima Island)

SHIMANE
OSAKA

What is a FUKUOKA

UNESCO

Global Geopark?

U NESCO Global Geopark is an o cial label of UNESCO

and is awarded to places where sites and landscapes of inter-
national geological signi cance are managed with a holistic concept
of protection, education and sustainable development. We hope our

visitors will enjoy their time here to the fullest while cherishing the
environment and minimising their ecological impact.

Ama Town Nishinoshima Town Chibu Village
(Nakanoshima Island) (Nishinoshima Island) (Chiburijima Island)

Population: 2,300 Population: 2,500 Population: 600
Area: 33.44 km² Area: 55.96 km² Area: 13.7 km²
is town features the widest is town boasts the unforgetta- Chibu Village features a breath-
plain on the Dōzen Islands, ble scenery of Kuniga Coast, a taking 360° panorama of all Oki
which made rice farming possi- place of diverse coastal land- Islands, and is known for both
ble on this otherwise quite hilly forms, such as cli s, caves, sea its peaceful scenery of gentle
island. e island is historically arches, and stacks. Exploring mountain slopes dotted with
known for being the place of from the land and from the sea cows grazing away on the grass,
exile of Emperor Go-Toba in the provides unique insights into the and the dynamic sheer cli
13th century. story of the land. Sekiheki.