Amanohashidate
A pine-covered sandbar about 3.6 km long across Miyazu Bay in northern Kyoto Prefecture, counted as one of Japan's three scenic views. The custom is to view it upside down, bending over to look between your legs from the hills above, so it seems to bridge the sky.
- Where
- Miyazu, Kyoto, Japan
- Grade
- Well known
- Worth
- 10 points collected on site, plus 1 for its grade
- Coordinates
- 35.5696, 135.1920
Get the Amanohashidate stamp
Open LOQAH when you are at Amanohashidate. It checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp is yours: confirmed on site in gold and struck with the date. It goes into your Kyoto volume with your photos and a note.
Near Amanohashidate
Kifune Shrine 72 km
A mountain shrine to the god of water in the forested valley of Kibune, in the far north of Kyoto. Its approach is a flight of stone steps lined with red lanterns, and visitors float paper fortunes on the spring water to make the writing appear.
Kurama-dera 73 km
A mountain temple in the far north of Kyoto, reached by a steep path or a short cable car up Mount Kurama. It holds several National Treasures, and it is said to have been founded by a disciple of the Chinese monk Jianzhen.
Tenryū-ji 76 km
The head temple of its own branch of Rinzai Zen, founded by Ashikaga Takauji in 1339 with Musō Soseki as its first chief priest. It ranks first among Kyoto's Five Mountains, and its garden pond borrows the hills of Arashiyama as a backdrop.
Arashiyama 76 km
A district on the western edge of Kyoto, where the Ōi River runs below a wooded mountain of the same name. The Togetsukyō bridge, the bamboo grove and temples such as Tenryū-ji make it one of the city's favourite places for cherry blossom and autumn colour.
Arashiyama Bamboo Grove 76 km
A grove of tall mōsō bamboo in Arashiyama, with paths that run between the green stems beside Tenryū-ji. The Ministry of the Environment counts the sound of the wind through it among the soundscapes of Japan.
Kamigamo Shrine 76 km
One of Kyoto's two Kamo shrines, on the banks of the Kamo River in the north of the city, first founded in 678. Two cone-shaped mounds of white sand stand before its halls, and it is part of the Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto.
Ryōan-ji 76 km
A Zen temple in north-west Kyoto with the most famous rock garden in Japan: fifteen stones set in raked white gravel, placed so that one is always hidden from any point on the veranda. It is a classic of kare-sansui, the dry landscape garden.
Kinkaku-ji 76 km
A Zen temple in northern Kyoto whose reliquary, the Golden Pavilion, has its top two floors coated in gold leaf. It sits on the edge of a still pond that doubles it in reflection, and the present building was rebuilt in 1955.
More famous places to visit in Kyoto
Questions
Where is Amanohashidate?
Amanohashidate is in Miyazu, Kyoto, Japan. The nearest other LOQAH stamps are Kifune Shrine (72 km), Kurama-dera (73 km), Tenryū-ji (76 km).
How do I get the Amanohashidate stamp?
Open LOQAH when you are at Amanohashidate and get its stamp. The app checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp goes into your Kyoto volume, confirmed on site, with the date.
I have been to Amanohashidate before. Can I still have the stamp?
Yes. Add it from Earlier trips in your Kyoto volume, with the date if you know it, or import your Google Timeline and LOQAH matches the places you were.
Collect your first stamp.
LOQAH is free on iPhone and Android, in India and 20 more countries, with more countries on the way. Stand at a place, collect its stamp, and keep every trip in a passport that grows.