Kehi-no-Matsubara Pine Tree Park

This park offers a stark contrast between white sand and green pines on a wide plot of 400,000 square meters that runs for 1.5 km along the shore. Some 17,000 red akamatsu and black kuromatsu pine trees stand on this national place of scenic beauty. The park is one of Japan's top three pine tree parks, along with Miho-no-Matsubara in Shizuoka Prefecture and Niji-no-Matsubara in Saga Prefecture. When the beach opens to swimmers in the summer, visitors from the Osaka and Nagoya metropolitan areas flock here. The walking paths offer a place to stroll and make for a great place to get away from the city.