Sarahama

Pole-and-line bonito fishing started at Sarahama in 1909 with two small boats, and a monument marked its hundredth year in 2010. The boats still fish the payao rafts moored offshore. Families who moved over from Ikema in the 18th and 19th centuries founded both of the settlement's districts, Ikemazoe and Maezatozoe.

Until the bridge opened on 31 January 2015, ferries ran from Hirara to Sarahama port. The Nihon Rekishi Chimei Taikei records an older name for the place, Sanahama. Sarahama's Myaakuzutsu festival runs over four days in the eighth and ninth lunar months. For a rider, the Irabu Ohashi Umi no Eki at the bridge end is the place to refill bottles and eat Miyako soba, and A Coop Sarahama stocks the basics.