Cape Toi – Wonderful View of Ocean Pacific and Wild Horses –

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The cape Toi is located at the southernmost of Miyazaki Prefecture. You can enter its lighthouse and enoy seeing wild horses at this place. If the weather is fine, please drive to the cape and enjoy its wonderful ocean view from the cape.

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Arrive at Cape Toi

After wonderful lunch at Service Station “Michinoeki Matsuyama” (Shibushi City), we drove westward for about 1.5 hours.

We arrived at the Cape Toi. The weather was fine. Blue sky and ocean were wonderful.Cape Toi

We paied money at the entrance of the Cape Toi. The fee was 400 yen for 1 car.

Once we entered into the park, we happened to meed many wild horses “Misaki-Uma”.

They are freely hanging around the park. It is better to drive slowly.

wild horses misaki-uma at cape toi

 

Lighthouse

We visited the lighthouse of Cape Toi.

We paid 200 yen per 1 person to enter the lighthouse.

The height of the lighthouse is 245m above sea level. I felt my legs got numb when I looked down the steep cliff.

The lighthouse is the entrance of Shibushi Bay, which is open to southeast. So ships in the bay are easily influenced by the wind and have sometimes had accidents. The lighthous has played a crucial role for safety of ships.

lighthouse of cape toi

The lighthouse is big!

lighthouse of cape toi

You can have a wonderful view of Ocean Pacific from the lighthouse.

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It was windy and please be careful that your had is blown away.

Lighthouse Museum is located at the entrance of lighthouse.

You can study the history of the lighthouse.

 

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Misaki Shrine

We drove from the lighthouse to the shrine for 5 minutes.

The benefits of the shrine is the safety of marine navigation and marriage.

Many marine accidents have happened near the Cape Toi from the past. So, the shrine has played an important religious role in the region.

Today I prayed for my friend so that he will meet a nice lady in near future.

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We took long stairs down to the ocean.

Cycad and many other tropical plants have grown in the shrine.

Those cycads are the northernmost of naturally grown cycads. They are desighnated as the special natural heritage.

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We found the main shrine building which is high above the cliff.

But the road to the building was blocked due to safety.

misaki shrine

Rough sea is just below the shrine building.

Rough ocean waves were hitting the coastline.

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I hope my friend will meet a new girlfriend in near future.

We didn’t have enough time to visit Visitor Center “Umano-yakata”. I recommend you to visit the center if you are interested in the life of wild horses (entrance fee of the center is 300 yen for over high school students).

Travel Information

Access

Car

About 1.5 hours from Michinoeki Matsuyama. About 1.5 hours from Miyakonojo IC of Kyushu Expressway.

Bus

About 45 minutes from JR Kushima Station to the bus stop “Toimisaki”.

Open Hour

09:00-16:30(no holiday)

Entrance Fee

Car 400 yen, Motorcycle 100 yen (Additional fee is required for the lighthouse area and Umano-Yakata)

Map

Panorama view of Ocean Pacific

 

Travel Spots near Cape Toi

宮崎県日南市を観光「鵜戸神宮」の紹介~御利益,御朱印,アクセス等~
妻の安産を祈るために鵜戸神宮に参拝しました。 鵜戸神宮は「安産・縁結び・夫婦円満・子育て」のご利益で有名です。 ※鹿児島ブログで宮崎県の神社を紹介するのは少し変ですが、近くということでお許しください(笑)。

宮崎県串間の「都井岬」観光~太平洋の大パノラマと野生馬~

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この記事は鹿児島地元人のララが書いています。

都井岬は宮崎県の南端にニョキッと突き出した岬です。

ここでは灯台にのぼったり、野生馬を近くで見ることができます。

天気の良い日はぜひドライブできてみてほしい場所です。

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