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Genkai Island 玄界島

| Island group | Genkai Sea |
|---|---|
| Prefecture | Fukuoka |
| Region | Kyushu |
| Municipality | Nishi-ku |
| Area | 1.14 km² (0.44 mi²) |
| Highest point | 218 m |
| Coordinates | 33.69° N, 130.23333° E |
| Official site | https://genkaijima.com/ |
Getting there: the article below outlines this island's usual ferry and flight routes. Timetables change with the season and sailings are cancelled in rough weather — always confirm the current schedule with the operator or the municipality before you travel.
Genkai Island is an island belonging to Fukuoka Fukuoka District. The area of the island is about 1.16 kilometers. The name "Genkai Island" is also the capital of Fukuoka Fukuoka district, which corresponds to the entire island. The population is 353 and family number is 1667.
Geography
You're facing the exits and bastions of Hakata Bay. The shape is a short ellipse heading southeast from the northwest. The highest point is in the distance. It's a land island rising from the bottom of the ocean at 20 meters. A rock coast, a lysic beach, is developing on the Isle Peninsula and on the Reissian coast. The channel between the Isle of Threshima and the sea is 2.6 kilometers wide, and it's called a silence. There's a big desk and a small desk island in the center of Seto Central. About 300 meters to the north of the island is the development of a reef about 200 meters wide, called Blackse. Blackse is classified as the only Fukuoka volcano island active in the fourth century C.E. and is made up of basalt. The island of Arashima is about 500 meters northwest.
History
In the old days, it was called Long Island, then Moon Island, and finally it was called Genkai Island. The former forces pass through the island. In 1281, the former army passed through the east of the island. - The Edo Order has set up a far-off station to monitor the movement of foreign ships. - Theheading of Seo-yeon Sekita and Mujiro, is being executed. - Start of an elementary school. - It becomes part of Odamura, Ingata County. I'm going to be organized into Singshima County. - Kodamura is changed to Hokkaido village. The Genkai Island lighthouse will be built on the northwest side of the island. - The School of Secrets is opening. - Hokkaido village will be organized into Fukuoka City. - The monorails are completed for shipping from the fishing port to the settlement. - A Fukuoka-Western earthquake occurred. It's estimated that the earthquake is at 7 or 6 at the base of the earthquake, and 70 percent of the house is destroyed in total.
Tourists
It's located in the Pacific park designated on June 1st, 1956. There are 14,000 visitors a year. Many are fishermen. As an animal of Genkai Island, there are crow pigeons and black cedars. As a tourist attraction, there are quasars and judo shrines. After his recovery from the Fukuoka earthquake on the west coast of the Pacific Ocean in 2005, he's engaged in activities that invite him out of the primary middle school. On the other hand, neither of the tenements that were in two houses before the earthquake had resumed. The tourist's acceptance is not complete yet. However, there's the only coffee shop on the island that has "S. COFFEE" or the dining room's "The Fisher's Cooks" menu.
Traffic
Flight 7 a day. 18 kilometers in 35 minutes. At one time, there were routes connecting Miyaura on the Isle of Tokshima to Genkai Island, but they were done away with. Before the quake, all the roads in the community were unique, but restorations have made the road smooth and allow cars to pass on many roads. Also, elevators have been installed to move the 50-meter-low slope. The cargo railing rope car that links the settlement from the fishing port existed one by one in the south side of the island to the east and west. This was set up before the earthquake that could not drive between fishing ports, and was now removed. In the southwest of the island, there are helicopter ports available for disasters and emergency transport.
Industrial
All the houses are focused on the southeast slope of the island, and the island people are mainly engaged in fishing. One fish, one fish, one fish, one fish, and so on. The remote islands, the remote islands, in the west district, and the remote islands. After resuscitation from the Fukuoka off the west coast, the slope on the south side looks like a Newtown with a new house.
School
On the southeast side of the island is the Kuokaoka High School of the Micro-School and Fukuoka High School.
A piece about Genkai Island
The Young Minister, who lived in peace, was left behind in Genkai Island. The names of such sites as Ministerial Rocks, Sleep Stones, Burial Beach, and so forth, are the remains of a young home.
Text adapted from the Japanese Wikipedia article 玄界島, whose full text was translated into English for this guide by its contributors, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Population, area and location facts from Wikidata (CC0); figures Wikidata does not carry are taken from the Japanese Wikipedia article's data table (CC BY-SA 4.0).