Futami Seaside Park

Little knownBarely documented in English. This is the kind of place the site exists for.

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The Futami coast faces due west across the Iyo-nada, and the town built a park around that single fact. There is a 380-metre artificial beach, a headland called Koibito-misaki with a bell and a wishing stone, a viewing deck arranged for the sunset, and a roadside station with a market selling jakoten and local produce.

It is on the national hundred best sunsets list and was designated a Lovers' Sanctuary in 2007, which is a real Japanese scheme and explains the bell. What makes it worth the stop rather than the eye-roll is that the sunset here genuinely is the event — the sun goes into the sea with Kyushu-bound shipping crossing in front of it, and the whole park is oriented to watch. It is three minutes from Iyo-Kamitanada Station and free.

Informations essentielles

Horaires d'ouverture

Park open at all times | Roadside station and market keep daytime hours

Fermé: Open year-round

Tarif d'entrée

Free | Free parking at the roadside station

Meilleure saison

Year-round | Sunset in any season

Durée de visite

60–90 minutes

Comment s'y rendre

Informations d'accès

Takagishi-Ko 2326, Futami-cho, Iyo. From JR Iyo-Kamitanada Station or by car from Iyo IC on the Matsuyama Expressway. Free to visit, with a car park at the Michi-no-Eki Futami. The site includes a 380 m artificial beach, the Koibito-misaki headland, a sunset museum, a restaurant and a produce market. Phone.

Guide d'initié

**Time it for sunset and nothing else.** The whole park is oriented west across the Iyo-nada. In the middle of the day it is a roadside station with a beach. **Park here for Shimonada.** JR asks tourists not to use Shimonada Station's car park, and this roadside station is the recognised alternative — park here and take the train one stop. **Eat the jakoten.** The market sells the local fried fish cake made from whole small fish, ground bone in, which is a southern Ehime speciality. **Sunset time moves a lot.** From about seven in midsummer to five in December. Check before planning the evening around it. **Combine with the coast drive.** Route 378 along the Iyo-nada between Matsuyama and Ozu is called the Yosan Line coastal road and is the reason to be on this shore at all.

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