Amami Park & Tanaka Isson Memorial Art Museum
奄美パーク・田中一村記念美術館
A comprehensive park introducing Amami’s nature and island culture, featuring the Amami no Sato exhibition on local life and the art museum of painter Tanaka Isson.
Amami Park is located in Kasari Town, near Amami Airport. Amami no Sato uses full-scale models and video to introduce the nature, festivals, shima-uta island songs and daily life of the Amami Islands, and its observation deck looks out over the Pacific. The Tanaka Isson Memorial Art Museum in the park is designed in the style of a takakura (raised storehouse). It displays the subtropical bird-and-flower paintings that Tanaka Isson, known as “Japan’s Gauguin,” created in Amami in his later years. Combined admission to both halls is about 700 yen. Closed on the first and third Wednesdays. It is about a 5-minute drive from the airport, making it convenient to visit before arriving on or leaving the island.
Opening hours
09:00–18:00 (until 19:00 Jul–Aug); closed 1st and 3rd Wed
Nearby sights
- Tomori Beach
- Ayamaru Cape
- Heart Rock & Tebiro Beach (Akaogi)
- Oshima Tsumugi Village
- Gamousaki Observation Park
- Saigo Takamori Exile Residence
- Amami Museum
- Ohama Seaside Park