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Shimoji-shima 下地島

Population 40Area 9.68 km² (3.74 mi²)Okinawa Prefecture
Shimoji-shima
Shimoji-shima (下地島)Photo: Paipateroma — Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
Island groupMiyako Islands
PrefectureOkinawa
RegionOkinawa
MunicipalityMiyakojima
Population40
Area9.68 km² (3.74 mi²)
Highest point15 m
Coordinates24.81611° N, 125.15694° E

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.

Shimoji-shima is one of the islands of Miyagi.

Overview

It's connected by six bridges with a Irabu Island on the east side by a narrow channel. Also, through Irabu Island, by the Iseshima Great Bridge opening in 2015, the Miyako Island was connected by land. Before it became part of the city of Miyako Island by combining in 2005, he and Irabu Island had formed Iseshima County. About 98 percent of the area is owned by national property and public districts. There is the only Shimoji-shima airport built in Japan as pilot training.

Geography

The area is 9.68 kilometers, 525 miles, and a population of 95 people. (Accidentally on January 1, 2019) The reef rise is the island of the coral reef, and the whole island is covered with the peripheral limestone of the fourth century. It's very flat. It's at the top of the scale. There are no rivers. Between Irabu Island and ZXX, narrow straits and bays, 40-100 meters wide, cover about three and a half kilometers. Because of the narrow waterways, it looks like a Irabu Island and one island, for example, but both islands are not permanent islands. There are six bridges in this waterway. The south side of the island is a flat beach, and the west side is a steep sea-feeding cliff. Nearly every area except Shimoji-shima airport is designated as Iseshima County Natural Park.

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History

The February article says that there was a record of the crew of the Korean ships floating in Miyako Island, in which the people of neighboring islands, such as ZX129X and ZXXXXXQQQ130X, were traveling to one another. Also, by the time I was old-fashioned, there were supposed to be zXQ051X's in Oda. This village is supposed to have been destroyed by a tsunami between the old spheres, but there is a description of the Ihoku family, which was supposed to date back to the 16th century, and it would have existed up to that time if it had been a wooden house. At the beginning of this year, Iseshima village's middle-men who were Iseshima's middle-menager bought two buffalo cattle in Yatayama and left them to pasture. There were cattle and horse ranches after that. In 1767, the Emperor's Masters instructed horses to plant adans and trees in order to avoid wind and heat. In 1769, between the Irabu Island, Sawada was built, but part of it was destroyed by a tsunami of Xinjiyama, Japan, during the Japan earthquake in 1771. Because of the flatness of this tsunami, pastures and fields are flooded, and horses, cattle and sheep are drowned. However, studies in recent years have revealed that there have been periodic tsunamis in the former islands, and there is also a theory that the ringstone has been moved by earlier tsunamis.

Airway

The new terminal opened on March 30, 2019. (The winters are part of a break between Narita International Airport, Kansai International Airport, and Hong Kong International Airport.) From October 25, 1920, to Skymark, I began to travel to Haneda, Kobe, and Seo-yeon. It's the only airfield built in Japan for pilot training. So, with the aircraft landing gear at both ends, which is unusual for Japanese private airports, there is a huge runway of 3,000 meters by 60 meters.

I'm on my way

There is no port on the island for regular passage. There is a long-sized harbor area near the river route between Irabu Island and the waterway on the XXQ051X.

Road

Then, across Irabu Island, we go to Sakura beach at the end of the East Coast. Looking in the direction of the end, you can see that the XXQ 130X east coast is cut from north to south, across the bridge into Irabu Island. Then go east along the south coast of Irabu Island, followed by the XXQ129X center at the beginning of Iseshima Bridge. The waterways between Irabu Island and XX have the following bridges in order from the coast of Nanjo to the beach of Osama. The interstate and boarding bridge are the prefectures and the rest are part of the city road. XQ 130X Airport, in March 1976. The name is attached to the nearby Seo-yeon. Because of old age, it was stopped in 2009 and was destroyed in January 2013. After that a replacement was made, and a new bridge was started to be used on March 16, 1920. Iseshima Bridge - which has been closed down since 2005 because of old age, but the present bridge was opened in 2010 and opened in 2011. Intercontinental Bridge - A bridge in 1919. Today's bridge is a machinist about 1981. The Security Bridge - The 1912 Bridge. Today's bridge is a machinist in 1983. It's the bridge of 90 District Street. This bridge is now the bridge that's built in 1997. That's right.

Traffic

Airport Contactbus - Cypriots and Central traffic run airport traffic between Shimoji-shima and Miyako Island. You can also use taxis and rental cars operating at XXQ051X and Miyako Island.

Text adapted from the Japanese Wikipedia article 下地島, 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).

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