Amagi Town

In an inland cave, seawater has tides.

Unbuki, the sea inside the land

Photo by Indiana jo (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Tomori Petroglyphs

Sailing ships and arrows are carvedagain and again on three rocks.

Near the Akirigami River stand three rocks carved with sailing ships and arrows. The first rock shows nine ships and 48 arrows, the second 10 ships and nine arrows, and the third, found in a survey in 2012, six ships and eight arrows. They are believed to date from the early Edo period, but their age, purpose, and meaning are not well understood.

Prefectural historic site
Nine ships and 48 arrows on the first rock
Third rock found in 2012

02 ／ Mushiroze

A coast of granite boulders, rare inthe Nansei Islands south of Yakushima.

Mushiroze is a coast where granite boulders line the northwest tip of Tokunoshima. The town's site says the rock formed more than 60 million years ago, about 10 km underground. The name comes from the rocks' resemblance to mushiro, woven straw mats. Walkways have been built, and visitors can walk among the rocks.

Granite boulders
Formed over 60 million years ago, about 10 km underground
Named for resembling straw mats

03 ／ Innojofuta

Two arches eroded by the waveslook like a pair of eyeglasses.

Innojofuta, on Tokunoshima's northwest coast, is a limestone reef thrust up 1 to 1.5 million years ago, which the town's site calls geologically the newest layer of the island. Besides Megane-iwa, whose two arches resemble eyeglasses, there is Kinoko-iwa, mushroom-shaped rocks eroded at the base. The origin of the name is not clear.

Limestone reef raised 1 to 1.5 million years ago
Megane-iwa and Kinoko-iwa
Origin of the name unknown

Living here

Unbuki is minutes by car from the airport.

about 6,000 people
Rural district town

Amagi has no railway; the town's gateway is Tokunoshima Airport. The town's national park tourism site gives drive times from the airport: a few minutes to Unbuki, about 10 to Innojofuta, about 15 to Mushiroze, and about 25 to the Tomori Petroglyphs. The population is 5,307 (town figure, October 1, 2026).

People living here: 5,517people
Area: 80.4km²
Households: 2,521households
Rent (average for rentals): —
Healthcare: 0 hospitals ／ 3 clinics

Area and habitable land at the same scalee-Stat B1101 / B1103

Children waiting for childcare: —3 nurseries and similar
Home purchase subsidy: —
Average annual temperature: —

These 3 items are waiting on a nationwide data source. We do not fill them with estimates.

Shape

Borders 2 municipalities.

Amagi Town in Japan27.812°N 128.898°E

Territory of Amagi Town

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

17.2km

徳之島町, 伊仙町

Travel times per leg are not published by the municipality, so they are not shown.

Amagi Town isthis kind of town.

01Unbuki is an underwater limestone cave. Its entrance is inland, about 400 m from the coast, and the town's site says the seawater inside is tidal; exploration has reached a point 700 m from the entrance, but the town's site also says no connection to the open sea has been found
02The town's Shitabaru Cave site (Nishiagina) is described by the prefecture as a site where burials from the Jomon period and the oldest pottery in the Amami Islands were found, and its finds toured the Agency for Cultural Affairs' "Excavated Japanese Archipelago 2021" exhibition. On the cliffs above Senma Coast, settlement ruins over 2,000 years old have been found
03The traditional performing arts of Nishiagina, including six arts such as Hamayaki Toshi, are a town-designated intangible folk cultural property. At the Amami Rabbit Observation Hut, video shows the rabbits, and Matsubara Togyu-jo Bullring is also in town

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Amagi Town official site ↗Wikipedia ↗