Taketomi-cho Trip Overview
A short ferry ride from Isigaki will bring you to Iriomote Island, home to Japan’s southernmost national park. The island is amazingly unique. It’s a beautiful land of wilderness, with its untouched natural beauty, stunning mangrove lined rivers and endless jungles.
This value-packed trip with a government licensed and experienced multilingual tour guide is a fantastic and efficient way to explore Iriomote Island.
Discover the gorgeous Iriomote islands, which are so undeveloped that the best means to explore them is by ferry, riverboat and oxcart pulled by a
water buffalo. Your special guide will customize a six-hours tour that is the best for you!
Note*1: Please select your must-see spots from a list in the tour information to create your customized itinerary.
Note*2: The Nationally-licensed Tour Guide-Interpreter certification is issued by the Japanese government requires a good knowledge and understanding of Japanese culture and history.
Additional Info
Duration: 6 hours
Starts: Taketomi-cho, Japan
Trip Category: Day Trips & Excursions >> Rail Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Taketomi-cho, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan
A short ferry ride from Isigaki will bring you to Iriomote Island, home to Japan’s southernmost national park. The island is amazingly unique. It’s a beautiful land of wilderness, with its untouched natural beauty, stunning mangrove lined rivers and endless jungles.
This value-packed trip with a government licensed and experienced multilingual tour guide is a fantastic and efficient way to explore Iriomote Island.
Discover the gorgeous Iriomote islands, which are so undeveloped that the best means to explore them is by ferry, riverboat and oxcart pulled by a
water buffalo. Your special guide will customize a six-hours tour that is the best for you!
Note*1: Please select your must-see spots from a list in the tour information to create your customized itinerary.
Note*2: The Nationally-licensed Tour Guide-Interpreter certification is issued by the Japanese government requires a good knowledge and understanding of Japanese culture and history.
Itinerary
This is a typical itinerary for this product
Stop At: Nakama-river Protected Region, Taketomi-cho, Yaeyama-gun Okinawa Prefecture
90% of Iriomote island is covered with subtropical woods. In the Nakama River valley， the vast gregariousness of mangroves can be seen from a pleasure boat.
Jufukuji was established by the order of Minamoto Yoritomo’s wife Masako after her husband had passed away. Its founding priest was none other than Eisai, the man responsible for introducing Zen Buddhism into Japan. Besides the often photographed pathway that leads towards the temple, Jufukuji is not open to the public.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Stop At: Yubu-jima, Yubu-jima, Taketomi-cho, Yaeyama-gun, Okinawa Prefecture
Yubujima is a small island separated from Iriomote by a shallow, sandy strait. Water buffalo take carts filled with visitors to the island where there are restaurants, souvenir shops and a botanical garden. The cart rides are interesting, if not touristy, and some cart drivers describe the island’s history and play the sanshin (Okinawan stringed instrument).
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Stop At: Hoshizuna Beach, Uehara, Taketomi, Yaeyama District, Okinawa 907-1541, Japan
Hoshizuna no Hama means star sand beach, and is so named because the grains of sand found here are shaped like tiny stars. The sand is actually the skeletons of small one-celled organisms that live among the sea grass. This beach offers nice snorkeling and swimming, but is rather shallow during low tide. There are no public facilities at the beach besides the parking lot.
Duration: 30 minutes
