Amanohashidate View Land

Amanohashidate View Land is a theme park situated on a mountain summit overlooking the Amanohashidate sandbar and Miyazu Bay below. The park features chairlifts, rides, and multiple viewing platforms positioned to frame the pine-covered sandbar stretching across the mouth of the bay.

The park is located near Amanohashidate, a natural sandbar that Japanese poets and artists documented in their works beginning in the eighth century. The facility was later developed as a viewing destination to make this long-admired landscape accessible to visitors from a mountaintop vantage point.

Visitors practice matanozoki, viewing the sandbar between their legs, a tradition that has shaped how people experience this landscape for many centuries. This particular perspective creates an inverted way of seeing the natural formation.

Access to the park is provided by chairlift or cable car from the base of the mountain, offering different ways to reach the summit. Clear days are best for visiting, as good visibility makes the view of the sandbar and bay much more enjoyable from the observation areas.

The park is known for offering multiple separate viewing platforms that allow visitors to see the sandbar from different angles and under varying seasonal light. Each platform reveals the landscape from a distinctly different perspective, providing fresh visual impressions on repeated visits.

Location: Miyazu

Website: http://viewland.jp

GPS coordinates: 35.55250,135.18175

Latest update: December 8, 2025 19:59