Exciting Experiences
Gunkan-jima cruise, in Nagasaki-prefecture
The cruise ship take you exploring Tachibana bay from Nagasaki port and landing on
Hashima island. The site has been registered on UNESCO World Heritages as Sites
of Japan’s Meiji Industrial Revolution.
Now Hashima is a ruins called “Gunkanjima”, so called after its resemblance to the
silhouette. Hashima Island is located 3 km southwest of Takashima, and it was the
success of Takashima that led Mitsubishi to purchase this island, both islands giving
access to the same undersea coal deposit.
Hashima coal mining island is an artificial reclaimed island and the site of Japan’s first
major undersea coal exploitation pioneered by Mitsubishi and host to one of the world’s
most extraordinary former mining communities.
Dolphins watching cruise, in Shimabara, Nagasaki-prefectuer
Let’s meet wild Dolphins. Approximately 300 wild Dolphins live in the sea between the Shimabara
Peninsula and Amakusa.
The dolphin watching cruises have become increasingly popular for all ages, especially because
it is possible to see the dolphins so close that you could almost touch them.
frolicking in the sea.
Beppu Hell tour, in Beppu, Oita-prefecture
Beppu’s most hyped attraction, Hell (Jigoku Meguri ) tour that is a collection of hot spring
where the water bubbles forth from underground, often with unusual result. Five of the
hells are located in the Kannawa district where over 4 km northwest of Beppu station, and
two in the more remote Shibaseki district.
Kannawa district : 5 hells are located within walking distance of each other in this area.
Umi-Jigoku
Sea Hell, it resemble of sea, this 200 metre deep, cobalt blue pond of boiling water
emerge 1200 years ago after a volcano explosion.
Oniishi Bouzu-Jigoku
Oniishi shaving Head Hell, large and small bubble of hot gray mud that boiling up here
look like the shaven head of monks.
Shiraike-Jigoku
White Pound Hell, the colorless water that naturally spouts from the ground mysteriously
turn creamy white.
Kamado-Jigoku
Oniyama-Jigoku
Shibaseki district
It takes about 5 minutes by car or bus from Kannawa district to this Shibaseki district.
Chinoike-Jigoku
Tatsumaki-Jigoku