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About Miyazu
Kyoto has a coast, and this is it. Miyazu Bay is closed off by a sandbar three and a half kilometres long with several thousand pines growing on it, which Japan has counted among its three great views for centuries and designated a scenic place in 1922. The town sits at the landward end of it. Everything else worth the day is round the same bay or the next one north.
Within reach of the port
Amanohashidate
A sandbar between twenty and a hundred and seventy metres wide and about 3.6 kilometres long, carrying some 6,700 pines, laid down by the sea over thousands of years. You can walk or cycle the length of it. The view it is famous for is from the hills at either end, where the custom is to turn your back and look at it upside down between your legs, at which point the bar is supposed to read as a bridge to heaven.
Amanohashidate Tourist Association (official) ↗in Japanese — your browser can translate it
Chion-ji
At the landward end of the sandbar, one of the three Monju temples of Japan, the ones dedicated to the bodhisattva of wisdom. Its gate, the largest in the Tango district, is a city cultural property and carries sixteen arhats and a Shakyamuni in the upper storey.
Chion-ji (Miyazu City) ↗in Japanese — your browser can translate it
The boathouses at Ine
Round the headland to the north, a village where the houses stand with their ground floors open to the water so that a boat can be pulled straight in underneath. There are around two hundred of them ringing the bay, and they are meant to be seen from the water rather than the road.
Ine (Amanohashidate Tourist Association) ↗in Japanese — your browser can translate it
Shore excursions
NYK Cruises run their own guided excursions at each port, booked by guests themselves through My ASUKA PLANS — the booking window opens before departure and depends on your cabin class. They are conducted in Japanese. Going ashore independently is always an option.
Official sources
- Miyazu City (official) ↗in Japanese — your browser can translate it