OMOTEHAMA coast

The OMOTEHAMA coast where it is located in the south of central Aichi Prefecture in Japan, and it faces the open sea in the Pacific Ocean. Even in Lake Hamana, the local puts familiarity and calls the Enshunada coast of about 50km "OMOTEHAMA" from the IRAGO cape to the east.



As for the spectacle where rich sands and the sea cliff that spreads out like east and west and the arc, etc. range, the laurel forest in the hinterland pours nourishment into many brooks unusually and such nature has been left with abundant underground water also in Japan.



A gradual line from the sea to sands and the hill is features in this coast, and the natural environment that leads to the cliff forest and the farmland has supported the person's life. It is ground where a rich fishery and the culture were brought up by giving the Black Current.



Almost of the loggerhead in the North Pacific region because eggs is laid in Japan of threatened species II of the loggerhead specified for (VU) it is an important coast as the breeding area in the reason in the Enshunada coast.



The coming of the little tern etc. in winter sees the grey-faced buzzard and is seen famously as migrant's coming flying ground in summer if the oriental honey buzzard becomes winter ahead. A lot of wild birds are seen, and it is liked very much also between bird fanciers. The photograph below is a Buteo buteo in the sea cliff that lives with making a pair as for the nest. The appearance to do the hovering from sands is seen.



Not only the turtle and the bird but also the people visit this coast for the relief and the enjoyment. There are a lot of surf points by the geographical features that nature produces, this coast is crowded from spring to autumn with a lot of surfers, and the sportfisherman enjoys real pleasure and the surf casting of the open sea. Ovalipes punctatus that is called H crab (The pattern of the shell is seen the character of H) can be caught well in the kiss, the flatfish, Pennahia argentata, the cutlassfish, and local.