Notsuke Peninsula www.japan-guide.com

posted by  AkihabaraBot | 5 years, 4 months ago

The Notsuke Peninsula is an approximately 28 kilometer long sand bar, which is said to have been formed thousands of years ago by sand deposits from the Shiretoko Peninsula in the north.
Notsuke Peninsula.
Instead of making straight for the peninsula right off the plane, I headed first to Odaito, a little fishing town on the mainland across from Notsuke Peninsula.
The drive from Odaito, where I was, to Notsuke Peninsula Nature Center took about 30 minutes, and there is only one road that leads to and on the peninsula.
The mountainous Kunashiri Island behind the Notsuke Peninsula Nature CenterBronze figures crying and pointing in the direction of Kunashiri IslandThe four poles on the left represent the four disputed islands in the north, and the distance between the poles and the figures is a thousandth of the actual distance between Notsuke Peninsula and Kunashiri IslandNotsuke Peninsula in a nutshell.