{"id":66317,"date":"2020-10-02T05:03:30","date_gmt":"2020-10-02T05:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ippei-janine.com\/travel-japan-islands\/?post_type=portfolio&#038;p=66317"},"modified":"2020-10-02T05:04:20","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T05:04:20","slug":"tanegashima-kagoshima-kyushu","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/ippei-janine.com\/travel-japan-islands\/destinations\/tanegashima-kagoshima-kyushu\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanegashima Island"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tanegashima is most famous for the space center where Japan launches rockets, and is often said to be the world&#8217;s most beautiful rocket launching site. Tanegashima&#8217;s nature is beautiful with an uncountable number of sea caves, lush rainforest, idyllic beaches and coral reefs with clear blue water. However, Tanegashima doesn&#8217;t receive many nature-loving tourists since its natural beauty is overshadowed by its neighboring island, <a href=\"https:\/\/ippei-janine.com\/travel-japan-islands\/destinations\/yakushima-kagoshima-kyushu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yakushima<\/a> which is internationally famous for its Unesco&#8217;s World Natural Heritage site.<br \/>\nTanegashima is also famous in Japan as the place where western guns were introduced into Japan in the mid 16th century by the Portuguese.<\/p>\n<p>Tanegashima&#8217;s clear blue sea is home to many types of tropical fish and pristine coral reefs which are great for scuba diving and snorkeling (mid-May to mid-October is the best for those who want to snorkel without a wetsuit).<br \/>\nTanegashima has <a href=\"http:\/\/tanegashima.co.jp\/surf_point.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">over 10 popular surf beaches<\/a> which attracts many surfers from western Japan.<br \/>\nThe sea of Tanegashima is popular for big game fishing such as GT, swordfish, grouper, wahoo, tuna, etc.    <\/p>\n<p>For those who love kayaking\/packrafting\/SUPing, the southeast coast is amazing with many sea caves and idyllic deserted islands with white sand beaches. Kumanoura Bay (where the famous <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/N8tEeYXURdAkwRCu8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chikura Grotto<\/a> is located) is highly recommended for paddling activities.<br \/>\nTanegashima is known as Japan&#8217;s northern limit for mangroves, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/wzkM7urUWxdk11gU7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mangrove rivers and swamps<\/a> are also great for paddling at high tide. Kayaking\/packrafting\/SUPing in mangroves is usually a great activity in case of strong wind as mangrove forests block the wind, but that doesn&#8217;t apply to Tanegashima&#8217;s mangroves since they are much shorter in height than those found on other Japanese islands further south.<\/p>\n<p>For forest bathing, <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/HcbXxYSfMfJYeXiGA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cyatheaceae Natural Forest (Flock of Cyathea Spinulosa &#8211; large spiny tree fern)<\/a> is highly recommend. The sight of a forest covered with ferns and tree ferns is truly beautiful.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">[put_wpgm id=30]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":66318,"parent":0,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"portfolio_category":[],"class_list":["post-66317","portfolio","type-portfolio","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ippei-janine.com\/travel-japan-islands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/66317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ippei-janine.com\/travel-japan-islands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ippei-janine.com\/travel-japan-islands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/portfolio"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ippei-janine.com\/travel-japan-islands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ippei-janine.com\/travel-japan-islands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ippei-janine.com\/travel-japan-islands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/66317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67619,"href":"https:\/\/ippei-janine.com\/travel-japan-islands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/66317\/revisions\/67619"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ippei-janine.com\/travel-japan-islands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ippei-janine.com\/travel-japan-islands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"portfolio_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ippei-janine.com\/travel-japan-islands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_category?post=66317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}