Miho Travel Guide

 taigaa001 Says:  Miho airfiled is a small airfield merely 500 meters long. Unfortunately this airport is used only for emergency and medical supply purpose and only copters and crafts assigned to red-cross relief efforts can land, take off and train. Since Shizuoka Airport was opened in 2009... 

 taigaa001 Says:  Miho Lighthouse, located near the 500-meter-long airport, is the common name for Shimizu Lighthouse, 17.7 meters in height. This 100-year-old lighthouse is the first lighthouse in Japan constructed with reinforced concrete. 

 taigaa001 Says:  The plants that can be seen in the seashore include Calystegia soldanella, or seashore false bindweed flowering in May and June. And in July and August you can see the flowers of Vitex Rotundifolia and Oenothera laciniata. Close to the false bindweed colonies you can find... 

 taigaa001 Says:  Compared to Kamagasaki Path, this nature trail starting from Madame Helen's Monument, is really quaint, signs of few human souls. Then you can see the nearly untainted wild habitat of plants. At the southen end of the trail a bike road will lead to the southern part of the... 

 taigaa001 Says:  Kagagasaki is known as a scenic spot in Miho Peninsula. This loop trail about 30 minutes a round will make a nice stroll and the pine grove gives us nice shade in sunny days. From the Kamagasaki beach there's a bike road about 1.5 kilometers in length leading to Miho... 

 taigaa001 Says:  Cuscuta is the major parasite plant of Vitex Rotundifolia. And whenever there's Vitex Rotundifolia there's cuscuta. I wonder how they peacefully coexist. 

 taigaa001 Says:  French Ballet Dancer Helen Giuglaris loved the Noh Play of Hagoromo and wished to visit the place. But she passes away in 1952 and her hairs were buried at this site with stone momument for her. This monument is surrounded by giant crinum lilies (flowering around July and... 

 taigaa001 Says:  The Kaminomichi, or "Path of the Gods", was recently neatly refurbished with wooden trail. The trail leads to the Miho Shrine. 

 taigaa001 Says:  Miho Shrine is best known as "Hagonomo-no-Mai" maiden dance based on goddess robe maiden legend in Miho Pine Groves. 

 cheesecake17 Says:  HAGOROMO-NO-MATSU, the pine tree is said to be about 650 years old and is, according to legend, the place where the celestial maiden hung her robe..On New years morning every year crowd gather to see the sun rise ... 

 cheesecake17 Says:  ....Row after row of pine trees, their deep green leaves blowing in the wind in sharp contrast with the deepening blue sky. Between the pines is an endless, winding path to the land known as Miho-no Matsubara or the Pine Groves of Miho. This path is south from Miho... 

 cheesecake17 Says:  If you start your walk from Hagoromo-no Matsu to this light house it would be a about a 2 km of forest pine trees, not a bad walk during Spring, summer or fall...I did find it a bit cold during the winter months..:-)This light house was built in 1912...and its the FIRST... 

 taigaa001 Says:  Around Hagoromo Pine area there are two noodle restaurants. One of them is Amatsuen, a noodle restaurant, a oden shop, or an ice cream stand as well as a souvenir shop. 

 cheesecake17 Says:  You wont go hungry, there are 2 restaurant side by side...They sell most ramen or soba...there is also some little gifts item you can pick up like keychain, flags..etc.. 

 taigaa001 Says:  A 15.6-kilometer-long bike road between Abe riverside to Miho Coast is not only for bike riders, but for joggers and walkers as well as casual tourists who enjoy the stroll. When I went there I saw more joggers than bikers and I tried jogging myself on my return from Miho...