[2025 China Attraction] Travel Guide for Shoryudo Limestone Cave (Updated Feb)

📍Shoryudo, Okinoerabujima (Kagoshima) Okinoerabujima is known as the island of flowers and caves🏝 Okinoerabujima has over 300 caves of various sizes, and Shoryudo is a tourist cave with a total length of 3,500m, of which 600m is open to the public. As the island was formed by the uplift of coral, the stalactites are wonderfully developed, and the size and beauty of the type of stalactites called flowstones, which crystallize to cover the walls, are among the largest in Japan!! (※It seems to have a slightly different atmosphere from the limestone caves on the Japanese mainland) The inside of the cave was lit up, there was a shrine, there were sparkling stones, and stones with interesting names like Christmas trees and magic daruma rocks, so it was a place worth seeing🤍 A mysterious and extraordinary world that you can't experience very often It's more prosperous than I imagined, and it's an island worth seeing, so I highly recommend it to those who like island trips, and I also want to visit Okinoerabujima! ♡ Add excitement to your daily life:🌙 📍 Shoryudo, Okinoerabujima 📮 Sumiyoshi, Chinyo-cho, Oshima-gun, Kagoshima Prefecture 🕙 9:00-17:00 (closed on Tuesdays) 💰 Adults 1,100 yen Elementary and junior high school students 550 yen #Sakura2024 #Domestic travel #Remote island travel #Breathtaking views #Breathtaking views #Okinoerabujima #Girls trip

Okinoerabujima has many caves, some of which can only be entered with a tour guide. Caving tours are held daily, and are recommended for cave lovers. Shoryudo is a cave that you can easily drop into. It is a large tourist cave that unfolds in an underground world, and is introduced at the entrance as one of the nine best caves in Japan. My impression was that it was like a sculpture of nature created by groundwater over a long period of time. The countless silvery-white stalactites hanging from the ceiling are said to be the most beautiful in the Orient, and 600m of the total length of 3,500m is open to the public. The development of the stalactites due to their transformation from the coral sea is amazing, and some of the countless silvery-white stalactites hanging from the ceiling are called Christmas trees and music halls. Address: 891-9213 Sumiyoshi, China-cho, Oshima-gun, Kagoshima Prefecture #trip202304 #Kagoshima Prefecture #Okinoerabu Island #Cave #Remote Island

There is something on the surface of the stalactite, which is said to be a flowing water stone, which is not common elsewhere. It is shocking that there is such a large limestone cave on a small island. This wonderful limestone cave has stalactites growing from the ceiling and stalagmites growing from the floor, but in this cave stalactites also grow from the walls. It looks sparkling like a crystal painting.

Okinoerabu Island, which was formed by the uplift of a coral reef, has many limestone caves and caverns. Among them, Shoryu Cave has stairs and walkways, so you can easily view the formations that nature has created over the years. Some of them have names such as Rocket Rock, but it's also fun to use your imagination and come up with your own names. #Trip to Kagoshima