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和歌山県 · Regional selections

Enjugahama Beach

日高

A shore in Mihama, with about six kilometres of pine woods planted against the tides.

和歌山県 · Regional selections

Tenjinzaki

西牟婁・南紀白浜

A cape jutting into Tanabe Bay. At low tide a flat reef appears, good for looking at sea life.

和歌山県 · Regional selections

紀三井寺

和歌山市・海草

A temple founded in 770, the second stop of the Saigoku 33 pilgrimage, with the reference tree for cherry blossom forecasts.

和歌山県 · Regional selections

Sandanbeki

西牟婁・南紀白浜

A rock wall about 50 metres high in Shirahama, running two kilometres north to south.

和歌山県 · Regional selections

Washigamine Cosmos Park

有田

A cosmos field on a 586-metre summit in Aridagawa. On clear days you can see as far as Shikoku.

和歌山県 · Regional selections

熊野本宮大社

西牟婁・南紀白浜

One of the three Kumano shrines. A World Heritage site, with the largest torii in Japan standing nearby.

和歌山県 · Regional selections

Bokido Cave

東牟婁・熊野

A cave bath in Nachikatsuura, the water set in a space the waves of the Kumano sea cut from the rock.

和歌山県 · Regional selections

Aridagawa Railway Park and Railway Museum

有田

A park in Aridagawa, preserving rolling stock from a closed line and about 400 metres of track.

和歌山県 · Regional selections

Toretore Market

西牟婁・南紀白浜

A seafood market in Shirahama, with fish from across Japan to eat on the spot.

和歌山県 · Regional selections

淡嶋神社

和歌山市・海草

A shrine at Kada in Wakayama City, its grounds filled with dolls sent from all over Japan.

和歌山県 · Regional selections

Zao Bridge

有田

A 160-metre suspension bridge in Aridagawa, looking down on the Futagawa dam lake.

和歌山県 · Regional selections

Yasukawa Gorge

西牟婁・南紀白浜

A gorge in Shirahama at the head of the Hiki River, within a prefectural nature park.

和歌山県 · Regional selections

Saki-no-Yu

西牟婁・南紀白浜

An open-air bath at Shirahama, a rock tub facing the sea, said to date from the age of the Man'yoshu.

和歌山県 · Regional selections

Important Traditional Buildings Preservation District

有田

A townscape in Yuasa, the only preservation district of traditional buildings in the prefecture, and a soy-sauce brewing town.

和歌山県 · Regional selections

Kada Beach

和歌山市・海草

A swimming beach at Kada in Wakayama City, shallow and calm.

和歌山県 · Regional selections

Saikazaki Lighthouse

和歌山市・海草

A white lighthouse built in 1960, with Awaji Island and Shikoku from its viewing deck.

和歌山県 · Regional selections

神倉神社

東牟婁・熊野

A shrine partway up Mount Kamikura in Shingu, held to be where the Kumano deity first descended, at the top of 538 stone steps.

和歌山県 · Regional selections

Inamura-no-Hi Museum

有田

A centre in Hirogawa on Goryo Hamaguchi, who saved the villagers in the Ansei earthquake by setting fire to rice sheaves.

和歌山県 · Regional selections

Koyasan Cable Car

伊都・高野山

A railway climbing 328 metres in about five minutes, used by pilgrims to Mount Koya.

和歌山県 · Regional selections

Katsuragi-nishi (Outbound) Roadside Station

伊都・高野山

A roadside station in Katsuragi, doubling as an expressway rest stop, selling local produce.

和歌山県 · Regional selections

Ryujin Onsen

西牟婁・南紀白浜

A hot spring in Tanabe, counted among Japan's three finest waters for the skin.

和歌山県 · Regional selections

Ubuyu Beach

日高

A swimming beach in Hidaka, the largest shallow beach in the middle of the prefecture.

和歌山県 · Regional selections

Kushimoto Marine Park

東牟婁・熊野

An aquarium in Kushimoto showing about 400 species, with an underwater observation tower.

和歌山県 · Regional selections

Grape Picking／Arida Kyoho Village

有田

A vineyard in Aridagawa growing seeded Kyoho grapes, now uncommon.