Kehi no Matsubara

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Seventeen thousand pines, 85% of them red pine: rare on Japanese coasts.

Seventeen thousand pines, on average two hundred years old, run for a kilometre and a half along the beach at Tsuruga: 85% are red pines, a proportion reversed compared with most of Japan's coastal pine groves, where the black pine almost always dominates. There is no gate: you walk freely among the trunks down to the sand.

One of the three great pine groves of Japan (日本三大松原), together with those of Niji (Karatsu) and Miho (Shizuoka); it was designated a national Place of Scenic Beauty in 1934 and is now part of the Wakasa Bay nature reserve.

ℹ️ Free entry, always open, no ticket. Tsuruga Station plus a local bus to the ‘Kehi no Matsubara’ bus stop, 3 minutes’ walk; by car about 15 minutes from the Tsuruga interchange on the Hokuriku Expressway.

🚉 Tsuruga · 28 min walk

Sources: ja.wikipedia.org

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