Sights in Minamidaito, Okinawa

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• Hoshino Cave

  

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  Minamidaito Island's foremost limestone cave, 375 meters long, with paths, lighting, and varied milky-white stalactites.

• Baribari Rock

  

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  Walk through a huge rock fissure created by crustal movement on Minamidaito Island, born about 48 million years ago.

• Akiba Underground Lake

  

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  Underground lake beneath sugarcane fields on Minamidaito, entered through a sinkhole; guide required.

• Minamidaito Fishing Port

  

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  Minamidaito's only fishing port, where cranes lift whole boats because cliffs prevent docking.

• Sugar Train

  

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  Train that carried harvested sugarcane on Minamidaito for over 60 years until truck transport took over.

• Furusato Cultural Center

  

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  Folk museum of Minamidaito pioneer history, mixing Hachijo and Ryukyu culture, with tools, specimens, and a sugar train.

• Daito Shrine

  

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  Shrine on Minamidaito enshrining Amaterasu, founded by devout Hachijo Island settlers.

• Minamidaito Island Settlement Centennial Monument

  

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  Monument in Frontier Park south of Nishi Port, with statues of Tamaki Han'emon and a settler, built in 2000.

• Hinomaru-yama Observatory

  

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  Highest observatory on basin-like Minamidaito, on a position site built by Japanese forces in wartime.

• Ohirugi Grove at Oike

  

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  Nationally designated natural monument: mangroves growing in freshwater inland at Oike, a globally rare ecology.

• Railway Ruins

  

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  Remains of the sugarcane railway whose sugar train once crossed Minamidaito Island.

• Minami-Daito Island

  

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  Raised coral island with sheer cliffs, an observatory, a large limestone cave, and local foods.