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Sights in Ishigaki, Okinawa
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NEI Museum of Art
Displays yuzen-dyed paintings of southern islands, plus silk stoles, handkerchiefs, and stationery.
Emerald Sea Observatory
360-degree views of Ishigaki town, lush plains, emerald sea, Taketomi, Iriomote, night views and stars.
Southern Gate Bridge
Blue bridge linking Yashima and Painuhama, a town symbol with night lighting and projection mapping.
Yaeyama Peace Memorial Museum
Established in 1999 as a branch, showing Yaeyama war malaria and postwar malaria control through photos and materials.
Tojinbaka
Tomb enshrining Chinese who died in the mid-19th-century Baun incident, built in Chinese style in 1972.
Miyara River Mangrove Forest
Mangrove forest designated a national natural monument, spanning about 1,500m of the Miyara River estuary.
Kabira Bay
Ishigaki's finest scenic inlet, with nine islets and black pearl cultivation since the Taisho era.
Hirakubo Cape Lighthouse
Lighthouse at Ishigaki's northern tip, where cattle graze and Tarama Island is visible on clear days.
Cape Ogamizaki
North end of Yarabu Peninsula with a white lighthouse, cliffs, odd rocks, white spring lilies, and popular offshore diving.
Former Miyara Dunchi
1819 Yaeyama samurai residence modeled on Ryukyu houses, with a dry-landscape garden and national Important Cultural Property status.
Gongendo and Nio Statues
Yaeyama's oldest Buddhist temple, founded in 1614, with Okinawa's oldest wooden Nio statues.
Tamatorizaki Observatory
At Hirakubo Peninsula's base, views run from Nobaru Cape to Hirakubo Cape over green hills and coral-reef sea.
Shiraho Coast
Coral reef coast about 10 minutes by car from New Ishigaki Airport.
Ishigaki Island Astronomical Observatory
Kyushu-Okinawa's largest 105cm optical-infrared telescope, with public facility tours, a 4D2U theater, and stargazing.
Ishigaki Island Limestone Cave
Ishigaki's largest limestone cave, created over 200,000 years from coral, with stalactites, illumination, a water chime, and Totoro stalactite.
Ishigaki City Yaeyama Museum
Municipal Yaeyama museum in Ishigaki City.
Yonehara Yaeyama Palm Grove
National natural monument grove of endemic Yaeyama palms in Yonehara, Ishigaki, praised as one of the world's most beautiful palms.
Mount Nosoko
Pointed northern mountain with summit panoramas and a signboard for the Nusukumape tragic love story.