Taketomi Town

A pier that helped modernize fishing.

Iko Pier, Kuroshima

Photo by Paipateroma (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Shimotabaru Castle Site

Shimotabaru names a national castle siteand a prefectural shell mound site.

In the town's list of cultural properties, the Shimotabaru Castle Site is a national historic site (designated 2003) and the Shimotabaru Shell Mound is an Okinawa Prefecture historic site (designated 1956). Both are located in the Hateruma district of Hateruma Island. In the Agency for Cultural Affairs database, the castle site is designated under the category of sites relating to politics.

2003: national historic site
Shell mound: prefectural historic site, 1956
Designated under political sites, castles included

02 ／ Nagomi Tower

A concrete lookout tower standson a mound built up with stone walls.

It stands in Akayama Park, near the center of Taketomi Island's western settlement. On a 6 m mound built up with stone walls and the like, a lookout tower of reinforced concrete was added. The lookout platform has an 8-step staircase, and the Agency for Cultural Affairs calls the tower a symbol of the island.

6 m mound with stone walls
8-step staircase to the platform
Built in 1953
2006: national Registered Tangible Cultural Property

03 ／ Funaura Nipa Palm Grove

Native to the Philippines, absent from Taiwan,a palm grove grows wild on Iriomote.

It lies in the northwest of Funaura on Iriomote Island and is a national Natural Monument, designated in 1972. The Agency for Cultural Affairs explains that the nipa palm is native to the Philippines and does not occur in Taiwan, but grows wild on Iriomote Island at its northern limit, which makes it notable for plant distribution. The land is national forest.

1972: national Natural Monument
Grows wild on Iriomote, northern limit (Agency for Cultural Affairs)
National forest

Living here

10 to 15 minutes by boat from Ishigaki, a town of 16 islands.

about 4,000 people
Rural district town

Taketomi is a town of 16 islands (9 inhabited, 7 uninhabited) scattered southwest of Ishigaki Island, with no railway. The town office is outside the town, in Ishigaki City. The gateway is the Port of Taketomi on Taketomi Island, about 10 to 15 minutes by boat from the island ferry terminal at Ishigaki Port.

People living here: 3,942people
Area: 334.4km²
Households: 2,093households
Rent (average for rentals): —
Healthcare: 0 hospitals ／ 15 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —0 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.

Taketomi Town in Japan24.340°N 124.154°E

to IshigakiYaeyama Kanko Ferry15min

Travel times follow 島の町の決め（直島町・上島町と同じ。駅の無い島の町の船の起点を都市名、事業者名を mode にする）。事業者公式・八重山観光フェリー『運航時刻表 2026/10/1〜2027/2/28』（https://www.yaeyama.co.jp/files/docs/tt202610_02.pdf と運航状況ページ https://www.yaeyama.co.jp/operation.html。2026-10-07 に読んだ）の『竹富航路所要時間約10〜15分』：石垣発 7:30・8:30・9:30・10:30・11:30・13:30・14:30・15:30・16:00・17:30 の10便（竹富発 7:50〜17:50 の10便）。安栄観光『高速船時刻表 2026年10月1日〜2027年3月31日』（https://aneikankou.co.jp/files/manager/pdf/timetable/2026.10.1-2027.3.31.pdf）の『竹富島所要時間10分〜15分』：石垣発 7:30・9:00・10:00・11:00・12:30・15:30・16:30・17:30 の8便。町公式『竹富町へのアクセス』：『離島ターミナルより各離島へのおおよその所要時間は竹富島：15分、黒島・小浜：30分、大原・上原：40分、鳩間：45分、波照間：90分（フェリーの大きさや波や風の状況によって変わります。）』 (checked 2026-10-07). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 0 municipalities.

Territory of Taketomi Town

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

47.8km

Taketomi Town isthis kind of town.

01Iko Pier on Kuroshima, on the island's north coast, is a nationally Registered Tangible Cultural Property 354 m long and 4.3 m wide, built of stone and concrete under a prefectural subsidy; the Agency for Cultural Affairs describes it as a large structure that supported the modernization of the island's fishing
02The settlement on Taketomi Island was selected in 1987 as a national Important Preservation District for Groups of Traditional Buildings, and the Higashiyashiki district holds the former Yonaguni house, a national Important Cultural Property
03Taketomi is a town of 16 islands (9 inhabited, 7 uninhabited) scattered southwest of Ishigaki Island, and its town office is in Ishigaki City, outside the town

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Taketomi Town official site ↗Wikipedia ↗