Nishi-Hennazaki

Nishi-Hennazaki is the quieter twin of the eastern cape, a low headland of pasture in Karimata where a Miyako horse herd grazes and wind turbines turn along the spine. Typhoons in 2002 and 2003 brought all five original turbines down, and three were rebuilt and running again by June 2008. From the tip the Ikema Ohashi runs out to the right and Irabu lies off to the left.

Stop here on the way to Ikema, since the bridge leaves from neighbouring Yowatarizaki. In winter the north wind hits the cape head-on, so keep the stop short. The Shimajiri mangroves, the largest in the Miyako islands, are close by.