 About This Site
Tanegashima is a small but incredibly beautiful island
located just south of Kyushu and mainland Japan. The island
is blessed with beautiful beaches, a warm ocean current,
great surfing, and fantastic fishing. Yet with all this, Tanegashima actually gets very few foreign tourists which
was quite evident once we moved to the island. I could not
understand why we had these wide, wonderful, white sand
beaches all to ourselves even on weekends and during
holidays. Then I began to realize the answer might be Yakushima,
our
island neighbor to the west.
Picture - Hamada
Beach, arguably the nicest beach on the island.
Yakushima was designated both a "UNESCO Man and the Biosphere
Reserve" and a natural "World Heritage Site", and as such,
receives a lot more attention than Tanegashima. Because of
these designations, a plethora
of Yakushima sites can be found online, both in English and
in Japanese.
On the other hand, online
information about Tanegashima in English is almost nonexistent.
You can, of course, find numerous blog posts from previous
visitors to the island, in particular, NASA folks who
periodically came to the Tanegashima Space Center to assist
in rocket launches. There is, however, no website, in
English, dedicated to this gem of Japan.
This was my motivation for making
TanegashimaJapan.com.
Hopefully you can find the Tanegashima information you need
on this site, whether you plan on vacationing here, or
possibly even moving to this wonderful place. Either way, if
the information you want is not here, please consider
visiting my personal blog for a more detailed look at the
island along with lots of pictures.
My Personal Blog - meet the family and see more of the island
If you still want more information, please feel free to
contact me via my Facebook page or messenger.
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- add friend or message me
Thank you for coming to
TanegashimaJapan.com.
Howie Hayman |
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