Kotohiki Beach
琴引浜
A protected national monument featuring rare singing sand that produces musical sounds when visitors walk across the shore.
What it is
- A 1.8 kilometer long beach designated as a National Natural Monument and Place of Scenic Beauty.
- Part of the Tango-Amanohashidate-Oeyama Quasi-National Park in Kyoto Prefecture.
- The world's first non-smoking beach established to protect the purity of the sand.
- A breeding ground for plovers and various species of migratory birds.
What to see
- Singing sand containing seventy percent quartz that makes noise underfoot.
- Over nine hundred species of micro-shells found within the beach sand.
- The Kotohiki Beach Singing Sand Cultural Museum located near the shore.
- Scenic coastal views that have served as filming locations for Japanese movies.
Notes written by Japan Gems from facts in Japanese Wikipedia.
Where it is
Kotohiki Beach Open in Google Maps
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