Amami City

A forest stands at the river's mouth.

Mangrove stand, Sumiyo

01 ／ Izumi Residence

The parlor wing and the kitchen wingstill stand as separate buildings.

The Izumi Residence in Kasari, built in the early Meiji era, is a house with separate buildings. The prefecture's guide calls it valuable because the Omote, with an eight-mat parlor, and the Toogura, with the kitchen, remain together with a raised storehouse. The grounds are ringed by an earthen bank planted with windbreak trees, and the well is stacked with cut coral stone. It is privately owned.

1994: national Important Cultural Property
Built in the early Meiji era
Omote, Toogura and raised storehouse

02 ／ Setta Mankai

Men and women sit facing each other,trading songs on old New Year.

Setta Mankai in Setta, Kasari, is a song-exchange pastime of the old lunar New Year, and a prefecture-designated Intangible Folk Cultural Property. Men and women sit facing each other and sing in turn to the shamisen and drum. The prefecture's document writes that it was seen across Amami until about 1930 but now survives only in Setta.

Prefecture-designated Intangible Folk Cultural Property
Men and women face each other, singing in turn
Old lunar New Year (Feb 17 in 2026)

03 ／ Kominato Fuwaganeku Site

Piercing, splitting, shaping the shell:spoons from each stage were unearthed.

From a dune site in Kominato, Naze, spoons made of turban shell, dated to around the 6th to 7th centuries, were unearthed. The turban shell is a large sea snail of the warm waters of the southwest islands. The 83 finds include unfinished pieces, covering stages from piercing the raw shell to shaping it. The designation commentary calls the site a place of concentrated production of such spoons.

83 turban shell spoons (including unfinished)
2010: National Historic Site
2016: finds designated Important Cultural Property

Living here

11 hours from Kagoshima by overnight ferry.

about 40,000 people

Amami City has no railway; its gateway is Naze Port. The overnight ferries of Marix Line and Marue Ferry leave Kagoshima Shinko Port at 18:00 and reach Naze Port at 5:00 the next morning. The city's official guide also lists Amami Airport as an air route.

People living here: 41,390people
Area: 308.33km²
Households: 19,648households
Rent (average for rentals): 34,934yen
Healthcare: 7 hospitals ／ 33 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —10 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.

ACCESS

Where you can go from here.

Amami City in Japan28.377°N 129.494°E

to KagoshimaMarue Ferry / Marix Line660min

Travel times follow 島の町の決め（長崎・五島市、愛媛・上島町に倣う。町内の玄関口の港へ乗り換えなしで着く船の起点を都市名に、事業者名を mode に）。マリックスライン『運航時刻表 2026年4月～2027年3月（鹿児島→奄美群島→沖縄）』PDF（https://marixline.com/assets/library/a124bdbdd09d4babb177a51eb62f1dee.pdf ）：鹿児島新港 18:00 出港 → 名瀬港 5:00 入港（1日目18:00発・2日目5:00着＝11時間＝660分）。復路は名瀬港 21:20 出港 → 鹿児島新港 8:30 入港（11時間10分）。マルエーフェリー『運航状況』（https://www.aline-ferry.com/status/status-route/route-kagoshima 、2026-10-07 更新）も、あけぼのの 10/7 下り便を『鹿児島新港 18:00 出港・10/8 名瀬港 5:00 入港/5:50 出港』と書く（同便は荒天でスケジュール変更・条件付き運航の知らせ。定常の時刻は同じ）。 (checked 2026-10-07). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 4 municipalities.

Territory of Amami City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

62.7km

龍郷町, 大和村, 瀬戸内町, 宇検村

Amami City isthis kind of town.

01The mangrove stand at Ishihara in Sumiyo is a city-designated Natural Monument; the Ministry of the Environment writes that the river-mouth area of the Sumiyo and Yakukatsu rivers is a habitat of Kandelia and Bruguiera
02The Modama habitat at Higashinakama in Sumiyo is also city-designated; a prefectural document writes that on Amami Oshima, growth is recognized only in the Higashinakama settlement
03Usuku Shell Mound in Kasari is Amami's first national Historic Site; Kosuku in Naze is the settlement where Nagoshi Sagenta, in exile, compiled the Nanto Zatsuwa, whose five-volume manuscript is city-designated

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Amami City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗