Fukuoka’s sunset coast, 45 minutes from the city

Fukuoka: Itoshima Shiraito Falls, Meoto Iwa & Fukuoka Tower

The best-value way to see Itoshima without a car. A coach leaves Fukuoka in the morning, climbs to the 24-metre Shiraito Falls and Raizan Sennyoji temple, then drops to the coast for the palm-tree swing and the white torii and married rocks of Sakurai Futamigaura, finishing at Fukuoka Tower.

• Shiraito Falls and Raizan Sennyoji temple in the hills
• The white torii and married rocks at Sakurai Futamigaura
• The palm-tree swing on the coast, then Fukuoka Tower

Itoshima Day Trip from Fukuoka

A slightly shorter coach day built around Itoshima’s photo spots: a waterfall in the hills, the tree tunnel known as the Totoro forest, and the coast with its sea views. It includes a ramen stop and time for local snacks.

• Waterfall, sea views and the “Totoro forest” tree tunnel
• Photo stops at Itoshima’s best-known spots
• A ramen stop and local treats along the way

Kyushu Tour from Fukuoka: Itoshima Nature & Coastal Scenery

The most-reviewed Itoshima day tour on GetYourGuide. The route links a waterfall, forest and an old temple in the hills with the palm-tree swing and the seaside photo spots of the coast, giving a rounded picture of the peninsula in a single day from Fukuoka.

• Waterfall and forest scenery
• An ancient hillside temple
• The palm-tree swing and the seaside photo spots

Coastal Escape: Itoshima Peninsula One Day Tour from Kyushu

A guided day from Fukuoka that pairs Itoshima’s two big hill sights — Shiraito Falls and Sennyoji Daihioin temple — with the Totoro forest trail and the coastline. A good choice in autumn, when the temple’s maple is at its best.

• Shiraito Falls
• Sennyoji Daihioin temple
• The Totoro forest trail

Customized Itoshima Photogenic Tour

A six-hour private tour that you shape with the guide: choose the coast, nature spots or local food and skip what does not interest you. With pickup available and one of the highest ratings of any Itoshima product, it is the flexible alternative to the fixed coach routes.

• A private guide and a route built around your interests
• Nature spots and local food stops
• Pickup available

Itoshima Nature Tour with Oyster

A private, customizable tour for seafood and nature lovers, built around Itoshima’s fishermen’s huts, beaches and coastal landscapes, with a meal included. Grilled oysters are a winter speciality in Itoshima, so check with the operator what is served in the month you travel.

• Fishermen’s huts and Itoshima seafood
• Sandy beaches and coastal scenery
• A customizable plan with a meal included

Fukuoka: Itoshima, Shiraito Falls, Dazaifu & Yanagawa Town

For visitors with a single day for everything around Fukuoka: the Itoshima coast and the married rocks, a ramen stop, and Dazaifu Tenmangu shrine. You see less of Itoshima than on a dedicated tour, but tick off the region’s two most popular day trips at once.

• Itoshima’s beach and the married rocks
• A ramen lunch stop
• Dazaifu Tenmangu shrine

Sakurai Futamigaura

The married rocks and the white torii

Two rocks tied together by a huge sacred rope stand about 150 metres offshore, framed by a white torii gate on the beach. It is the picture of Itoshima — at its best at sunset, and above all around the summer solstice, when the sun sets between the rocks.

Sunset Road & Beach Cafés

The coast road of cafés, swings and photo spots

The Sunset Road follows the north-west coast of the peninsula past beaches, surf breaks and a string of sea-view cafés — Palm Beach, the London Bus Café, Zauo and its palm-tree swing. It is the Itoshima of social media, and it is best driven or cycled slowly.

Keya no Oto Sea Cave

A basalt cathedral you enter by boat

At the western tip of the peninsula a 64-metre cliff of hexagonal basalt columns rises from the Genkai Sea, pierced by a deep cave. Small sightseeing boats from Keya fishing port nose right into it when the sea allows; a short forest trail leads to a viewpoint above.

Beaches & Surfing

White sand, surf breaks and singing sand

Itoshima’s north coast faces the open Genkai Sea: long white beaches, clear water and Fukuoka’s most reliable surf. Nogita is the surfers’ beach, Keya the classic swimming beach, and Anego-no-hama is famous for sand that squeaks under your feet.

Shiraito Falls

A cool waterfall in the hills, with noodles

High in the hills behind the town, Shiraito Falls drops about 24 metres over a rock face into a shady glen. In summer families come to catch nagashi-somen noodles from bamboo flumes and fish for trout; in early summer the path is lined with hydrangeas.

Raizan Sennyoji Temple

The great maple and a towering Kannon

Raizan Sennyoji Daihioin sits on the slope of Mount Raizan. Its treasures are a giant maple some 400 years old that blazes red in November, a wooden Thousand-armed Kannon nearly five metres tall, and a hillside of small stone disciples.