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Minamichita-Town Shinojima Island

  • Shinojima Island
  • Shinojima Island
  • Shinojima Island

Shinojima, A Small Island with a Big Role in History and Culture

Shinojima is a small island in the Ise Bay famed for its swimming beaches, seafood, great fishing, and is listed among Japan’s Top 100 Famous Sunset Viewing Spots.

hinojima Island

Just 50 minutes by train and a 25 minute boat ride from Nagoya, it is where the currents of the Ise and Mikawa Bays mix, making the area especially rich fishing grounds. Aichi Prefecture, in particular Shinojima, boasts the largest catch of the delicacy Torafugu, Tiger Blowfish. Because of this, the fugu (blowfish) were often sent to Shimonoseki in Yamaguchi Prefecture, an area renown for its fugu, and then re-sold as Shimonoseki fugu!

Shinojima is also famous for it’s traditional Onbe-Tai, or Red Sea Bream Dedication Festival. Three times a year, for nearly 2,000 years, the island has prepared and dedicated 508 salted sea bream of a specific size annually. The legend goes that the daughter of Emperor Suinin, Princess Yamatohime no Mikoto, the founder of Ise Shrine, enjoyed the prepared sea bream so much, that she decreed Shinojima to be the sole source of the auspicious fish to be dedicated.

Island Of Traditions

hinojima Island

Every 20 years the Great Shrine of Ise performs a ritual whereby the main shrines’ halls are completely rebuilt. The timbers from the old, retired shrines are not wasted. In fact, they’re shipped to Shinojima, where they are reconstructed as the new buildings for the islands’ Shinmei Shrine. The old timbers for the previous Shinmei Shrine are then sent to the island’s Hachioji Shrine, whose existing shine is also recycled, a tradition dating back thousands of years. Incidentally, Shinmei Shrine is considered female, while Hachioji is a male shrine. Once a year, the male spirit of Hachioji pays a visit to Shinmei, and on that night, all the lights on the island are extinguished. Romantic, don’t you think?

Shinojima is mentioned in the Manyoshu, a revered collection of ancient Waka poems compiled around 759. Records discovered in the remains of the ancient capital, Heijokyo in Nara mention the island paying tribute to the Emperors with gifts including dried shark.

The island is small, with only six kilometers of shoreline. One rocky shoreline is marked with gouges where rock was quarried from Shinojima around 1610 to be used in Nagoya Castle’s stonework. The famed warrior and castle architect Kato Kiyomasa lead 20 daimyo (warlords) in cutting the rocks, leaving the visible gouges. One particularly large rock, found to be too big and heavy to transport, is known as “Kiyomasa no Makuraishi”, or Kiyomasa’s pillow stone.

Shinojima has a great story to tell. It has fishing, bathing, great seafood, romance, sightseeing attractions and so much more. It is a small island, but big on history and culture.

SPOT OVERVIEW

Location : 〒470-3505
Shinojima, Minamichita-Town, Chita-District, Aichi Prefecture, Japan
Fee : Free to stroll round the island
Parking : Unavailable (please check with your target facility or accomodation provider prior to the visit)
Phone number : 0569-67-3700 (Shinojima Tourism Association)
Daily from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM

Note: This page may not be current due to update time differences between site databases.
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ACCESS

  • Access by public transport
    Access by public transport
    ・From Nagoya Station, take the Meitestu Nagoya Main Line. Alight at Utsumi Station and take the Minamichita-cho Community Bus. Alight at "Morozakiko" stop and take the Meitetsu Sightseeing Boat to Shinojima Port.
    ・From Nagoya Station, take the Meitestu Kowa Line. Alight at Kowa Station on the and 10 minutes walk to Kowa Port. Take the Meitetsu Sightseeing Boat to Shinojima Port.
    ・Take the Toyotetsu Bus Irago Main Line from Toyohashi Station on the JR Tokaido Main Line. Alight at "Irago Misaki" stop and take the Meitetsu Sightseeing Boat to Shinojima Port.
  • Access by car
    Access by car
    Drive for 10 minutes from the Minamichita Road Toyooka I.C. to Morozaki Port. Take the Meitetsu Sightseeing Boat to Shinojima Port.

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