Nagasaki no Hana

You can see everything from here

Anonymous Dec 07, 2016 - 1 min read

Here is the road you take to get there. Driving on the gravel road will take a while, but don't worry, you are on the right path!

The parking lot has room for a dozen or so cars and I have never seen it full

A small, secluded beach. You can see Shido Bay far in the distance to the left

The back side of Yashima, looking more like a mountain than the plateau that it is

Symbol Tower, Sunport, Takamatsu Port, and downtown

The ferry to Shodoshima going in front of Ogijima

From left to right: Yashima, West Takamatsu, Sunport and Downtown, East Takamatsu hills, Megijima (Onigashima), Ogijima, Teshima, Oshima, Shodoshima, Aji

Nagasaki no Hana is a cape that juts out from the far north end of the Yashima Plateau. In the early 1900s, the cape was used to station an artillery battery. Today, it is a great place to enjoy the breathtaking view!

You can access the cape by going north from Route 11 on Route 150, which can be very narrow in parts. Once you go about as far north as you can, there will be a gravel road on your right that you can follow down to a dirt parking lot uphill from the cape. You can go down to the water itself using a set of stairs.

There are beaches to the left and right and, from the end of the cape, you can see nearly 360 degrees including Yashima, downtown Takamatsu, and many of the islands in the Seto Inland Sea that lay between Kagawa and Okayama. It is a popular place to visit, although it is never really crowded and sometimes you can even have the place to yourself.

Anonymous @bret.de.colebi__archived

I am a Seattle native, settled here on Shikoku these last few years. Love Japanese food, hiking, camping, swimming, and taking photos of this beautiful corner of the world!