Movie “Rock”

A movie was shoot in 2000, based on the real story about a family and a dog that evacuated right after a massive eruption of Oyama.

Overview of Miyakejima

The island is a circular island with its circumference of 30 kilometers. There is a huge volcano Oyama in the middle.

Nature of Miyakejima

As an island far away from mainland Japan, Miyakejima has many unique natural landscape.. such as black coast because of volcano ashes, coral reefs underwater, green pond, or even endemic species.

Nature of Miyakejima

As an island far away from mainland Japan, Miyakejima has many unique natural landscape.. such as black coast because of volcano ashes, coral reefs underwater, green pond, or even endemic species.

Nature of Miyakejima

As an island far away from mainland Japan, Miyakejima has many unique natural landscape.. such as black coast because of volcano ashes, coral reefs underwater, green pond, or even endemic species.

Megane Iwa

The natural sculpture made by wave grinding lava over years. “Megane” means a pair of glasses in Japanese.

Nature of Miyakejima

As an island far away from mainland Japan, Miyakejima has many unique natural landscape.. such as black coast because of volcano ashes, coral reefs underwater, green pond, or even endemic species.

Shochu and Awamori

It is not so well known that Miyakejima produce its original shochu and awamori (a strong alcohol with 40 degrees). It produce from fermented rice, and is one of the most popular specialities.

Local specialities

Although it is a small town where the entire population evacuated once, it still produces vegetables, farms are there and their fishery strong! The island is especially famous for “Ashitaba” and “Kusaya”, both being leaf vegetables with distinct smell.

Nature of Miyakejima

As an island far away from mainland Japan, Miyakejima has many unique natural landscape.. such as black coast because of volcano ashes, coral reefs underwater, green pond, or even endemic species.

Local specialities

Although it is a small town where the entire population evacuated once, it still produces vegetables, farms are there and their fishery strong! The island is especially famous for “Ashitaba” and “Kusaya”, both being leaf vegetables with distinct smell.

Local specialities

Although it is a small town where the entire population evacuated once, it still produces vegetables, farms are there and their fishery strong! The island is especially famous for “Ashitaba” and “Kusaya”, both being leaf vegetables with distinct smell.

Local specialities

Although it is a small town where the entire population evacuated once, it still produces vegetables, farms are there and their fishery strong! The island is especially famous for “Ashitaba” and “Kusaya”, both being leaf vegetables with distinct smell.

Oyama Ichi

The original brand of shochu from Miyakejima, named after its volcano.

Movie “Rock”

A movie was shoot in 2000, based on the real story about a family and a dog that evacuated right after a massive eruption of Oyama.

Nature of Miyakejima

As an island far away from mainland Japan, Miyakejima has many unique natural landscape.. such as black coast because of volcano ashes, coral reefs underwater, green pond, or even endemic species.

Oyama

Oyama is the mountain located at the center of Miyakejima Island. It is an active volcano that erupts quite often.

Ashitaban

The name of the newspaper I published with my friends that documents people of Miyakejima.

Conditional

As Miyakejima is only accessible by ferries, when the weather is not good, the ferry will inform passengers that they might not be able to land on the island. (Even though about 80% of the cases, people can.)