Kume Island Museum

Kume Island Museum

Info

Kumejima Airport → 15 minutes by car; or 13 minutes by community bus airport line, bus stop: Get off in front of public Kumejima Hospital, 2 minutes walk
45 units/3 buses

Business Hours

9 to 17 o'clock

Price

Entrance general 200 yen, high school and college students 150 yen, elementary and junior high school students 100 yen

Spot Category

Museums・Science Museums・Archives

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Island fortune

The only cake shop on Kumejima Island, which also receives orders from the hotel. The Miso Cookie, which is made by kneading local miso into dough, is awarded a blue-chip prize at the Okinawa Island Fair in 2000. It is popular among Kumejima souvenirs.

Help me.

Made and sold the island kamaboko with plenty of gelatin. You can buy it at the airport, but it is best to buy fresh here and eat it on the spot. The island kamaboko 1000 yen is fragrant with the skin of fish and has a good chewy texture. One bite-sized kamaboko (kamaboko) 1000 yen, such as shrimp, mozuku, and squid that can be bought by the catch of the day, is also popular. It is recommended to eat with wasabi mayonnaise while cutting by hand. 700 yen for one bag of Iso chips and Isumi chips made from kamaboko is well received for its ease of eating.

Kume Sen on Kume Island

In the northern part of Kume Island, at the foot of Mt. There is a video guide to making awamori, and you can sample a variety of awamori at the store, from light general sake to rich old sake. Kumejima Limited "Kyumishima [Kumishima]" 3-year old sake 35 degrees 720 ml 2420 yen is recommended.

Tachin rock

Among the islands of Yonaguni, which are surrounded by sheer cliffs, the east-south is the area with the most severe and masculine landscapes. It is dotted with strange rocks that have been created over time due to the rough open sea. Close to Higashizaki, there is the Sannine stand, which shows the fault, which is divided into several layers, as a rock face. From the observation deck, the warship rock, which looks like a warship as its name suggests, is still washed by the waves. About a five-minute walk from Saint-Ninudai, there is a standing rock with a legend that a young man who could no longer descend from the top of the rock was helped by God.

Roaring Falls

A waterfall with a height of about 20m appears when you drive about 5 minutes into the mountains from the National Highway No. 58 Ikuta intersection.

Nakamura Family House

It is a royal farm house built about 280 years ago, and has been spared the war disaster of the Okinawa War to completely leave the private house structure of the Ryukyu Dynasty period. Since he was a local head of state around the year of Kyoho 10 (1720), he also has a stately status as a form of a shabby house. Other features include kitchens with low roofs to use the attic called tungwa for storage, and pig huts called fools. The influence of medieval Japanese houses and Chinese architecture can be seen everywhere, telling the life of a wealthy farmer in the Ryukyu period.

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