Kitagishima Stone Quarry Lookout

**The lookout is open two hours a day.** 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM. Work the ferry timetable backwards from that or the trip fails. **Sixty minutes each way by ferry.** This is a full day for one viewpoint plus an island, and it only makes sense if you want the island as well. **The water colour is real.** Groundwater in a granite quarry, and the green is the reason photographs of this place look manipulated. **Quarries are still working.** Some faces are active industrial sites with no access. Stay where the signs put you. **The stone is in buildings you have seen.** Osaka Castle's walls, the foundations of Tokyo Station, the approach at Yasukuni. Kitagi granite is a material with a national footprint and an island of a few hundred people. **Take food.** Shops on the island are minimal and not reliably open.