Amanohashidate, Kyoto Perfecture, Kinki
Amanohashidate is one of Japan’s three scenic views otherwise, also know as Nihon Sankei. The word “Amanohashidate” technically translates to bridge in the heaven in Japanese. A thin strip of land connects two opposing sides of Miyazu Bay. This sand bar is 3.3km long and is covered with about 7000 pine trees. This strip is the bridge in heaven.
To view the “bridge in the heaven” you just need to turn your back from the bay and look in between your legs. Tourists have been doing this for a millenia.
It can be viewed from mountains on either side of the bay or it can be traversed on foot. Visitors are recommended to view the “heaven’s bridge” by turning their back to it, then bending over and looking at it upside down from between their legs.
Near the southern end is Chion-ji, a Buddhist temple. The temple has a small tahoto, a kind of pagoda which still resembles the Indian stupa more than the more common three and five storied Japanese pagoda.
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