Amanohashidate

Amanohashidate (Japanese天桥 立) is a part of the Japanese city Miyazu in northern Kyoto Prefecture. A tourist attraction is located here with the " sky bridge ", a 3.6 km-long natural sand bank, which is planted with pine trees. She is one of the " three most beautiful landscapes of Japan ." The Spit has a sandy beach, which is visited by tourists in the summer. A visitor reached from the railway station via a swing bridge and then a fixed bridge that cross the drainage of the enclosed bay of her ( Aso -no- umi ). The visitor can explore them on their way to Fuchu at the other end of the Spit walk if he does not use one of the boats to to achieve Fuchu directly.

The best view of the " sky bridge " to be had from Kasamatsu park, which is reached from Fuchu with a short cable car: Here you stand with your back to the bay on one of the three banks, bends down and looks through the spread legs through on the Spit. Through this perspective, the impression is created when hovering the sandbar between heaven ( Takamagahara ) and earth. Above the park is located in the mountains of Nariai -ji, which belongs to Saigoku - pilgrimage.

Amanohashidate has a railway station, which is operated by a private railway line " Kita- Kinki Tango Miyasu -Line". Near the station is the old temple Chion -ji.