Your Complete Guide to Tsunoshima Bridge's Spectacular Views

Amagase Park sits at the Honshu entrance to Tsunoshima Bridge and is one of the area's most popular viewpoints, complete with parking and shops.
Its close proximity to the shoreline makes it one of the best places to appreciate the sea's crystal-clear waters and vivid blue color.
From here, you can admire both the impressive scale of Tsunoshima Bridge and the stunning beauty of the surrounding sea in a single breathtaking view.

Tsunoshima Observatory is on the left at the entrance on the Honshu side as you head toward Tsunoshima Bridge.
As its name suggests, it has some elevation, allowing you to look at Tsunoshima Bridge from a slightly higher perspective.
Its highlight is the sweeping view of both the bridge and the sea from a more picturesque angle.
You can photograph Tsunoshima Bridge from a diagonal upper angle, which makes it possible to capture the bridge piers in your shot.

As you head toward Tsunoshima Bridge, there is a hill a little behind Amagase Park.
It is simply part of a regular residential area that happens to sit on higher ground.
Its biggest feature and appeal is that you can look straight at Tsunoshima Bridge and view or photograph it from above.
Many of the photos featured in travel magazines were taken from this hill, so you can see in person the view you may already know from pictures.
It is the most popular of the viewpoints overlooking Tsunoshima Bridge, but please enjoy the scenery while being careful not to disturb nearby residents.

Tsunoshima Lighthouse stands on the western end of Tsunoshima Island, to the west-northwest of Tsunoshima Bridge.
It is one of the few lighthouses in Japan that you can climb, and after going up the spiral staircase, you will be rewarded with 360-degree views.
The horizon and townscape spread out below, letting you enjoy a very open and refreshing view.
There are not many people around, which makes it especially appealing if you want to take in the scenery in peace.

Makizaki Kaze no Koen is located north of Tsunoshima Bridge, at the northern tip of Tsunoshima Island.
It can be described as a little-known hidden viewpoint.
This natural spot is characterized by open pastureland and wild Darumagiku chrysanthemums.
You can enjoy a sweeping view of the horizon from a perspective close to the sea.
Its appeal is being able to look out over the sea from a nature-rich place with almost no buildings around.

Located in the northwestern part of Shimonoseki City, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Tsunoshima is bustling with visitors who come for fishing, swimming, and camping. Washokudokoro Yume Misaki is a place where you can enjoy food unique to an island surrounded by the sea on all sides.　
There is a wide variety of rice bowls on offer, including fugu, salmon & salmon roe, fresh sea urchin, and abalone, with seasonal options such as amberjack and yellowtail amberjack also appearing.
Among the many kinds of seafood, the top recommendation is Kottoi Ika, the highest-grade swordtip squid landed at Kottoi Fishing Port near Tsunoshima.

This dining spot is located inside Shiokaze no Sato Tsunoshima, which also has souvenir shops and more. The building was designed in the image of a menoha hut, used to store tools for gathering rocky-shore seafood, and you can enjoy seafood dishes here.
You can savor fish caught near Tsunoshima as sashimi or simmered dishes. The menu includes a sashimi set meal served with small side dishes, rice, miso soup, and pickles, as well as rice bowls generously topped with fresh sea urchin landed in Hohoku Town and tempura rice bowls topped with fugu tempura.

This restaurant stands near the historic Tsunoshima Lighthouse, which is also designated as an Important Cultural Property of Japan, and lets you enjoy a meal while taking in spectacular ocean views. It is especially known for the beautiful sunset seen from its terrace seats.
The menu is wide-ranging, from Yamaguchi specialty kawara soba to seafood ganganyaki, in which fresh seafood is steamed with sake in a can, as well as seafood rice bowls and Western dishes such as crab pasta and abalone risotto.

Opened in 1973, this suspension bridge connects Moji in Kitakyushu City, Fukuoka Prefecture, with Shimonoseki City in Yamaguchi Prefecture.
Spanning the Kanmon Strait, this 1,068-meter-long bridge was the longest in the East at the time it opened. It is part of an expressway, connecting Mojiko IC in Kitakyushu City with Shimonoseki IC in Shimonoseki City, and only motor vehicles can cross it (excluding vehicles not permitted on expressways).
It is also known as a scenic spot, and the green-gray bridge that blends into the surroundings is beautiful. If you walk along the Mekari Kanchoyu Hodo promenade on the Mojiko side, you can also look up at its विशाल bridge piers.

Motonosumi Shrine, in Tsuo, Yuya, Nagato City, is also known as one of Yamaguchi’s spiritual spots.
An offering box is placed on top of the 6-meter-tall main torii gate within the shrine grounds, and it is said that if you successfully throw a coin into it, your wish will come true.
The sight of 123 vermilion torii gates lined up densely like falling dominoes toward the blue sea is breathtaking.
It was even selected as one of CNN’s “31 Most Beautiful Places in Japan.”

Kintaikyo Bridge is one of Japan’s most representative wooden bridges, designated by the national government as a Place of Scenic Beauty and counted among Japan’s three most famous bridges.
This large and beautiful five-arch wooden bridge spans the Nishiki River and measures 193.3 meters long and 5 meters wide.
Its structure is unlike any other in the world, and it is aiming for registration as a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage site.
Its sturdy wooden joinery makes the bridge even stronger under pressure from above. If you look up from beneath the bridge, you can clearly see the wooden framework.