Amanohashidate
Ama-no-hashidate ( Japanese 天橋 立 ) is a part of the Japanese city of Miyazu in the north of Kyoto prefecture . A tourist attraction is here with the "Himmelsbrücke", a 3.6 km long natural sandbank that is planted with pine trees. It is one of the " three most beautiful landscapes in Japan ". The spit has a sandy beach that is visited by tourists in summer. The visitor reaches it from the train station over a swing bridge and then over a fixed bridge that crosses the outflow of the bay (Aso-no-umi) that is enclosed by it. So the visitor can explore it on foot on the way to Fuchu at the other end of the spit, if he does not use one of the boats to reach Fuchu directly.
The best view of the “Heavenly Bridge” is from Kasamatsu Park , which can be reached from Fuchu by a short mountain railway: You stand with your back to the bay on one of the three benches, bend down and look through your spread legs on the spit. This perspective should create the impression that the sandbank is floating between heaven ( Takama-no-hara ) and earth. Above the park is the Nariai-ji in the mountains , which is part of the Saigoku pilgrimage route .
Amanohashidate owns a station on the Miyazu line of the private railway company Kitakinki Tango Tetsudō is operated. Near the train station is the ancient Chion-ji temple .
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Coordinates: 35 ° 34 '10.4 " N , 135 ° 11' 31.2" E