Cape Ryorizaki

Cape Ryorizaki occupies the horizon just northeast of the Goishi Coast, marked by a silhouette of rugged white granite cliffs. A lighthouse stands at the tip of the cape at a height of 100 meters, one of many along this ria coast that warn ships of the dangerous reefs. The Japan Meteorological Agency operates the country’s oldest air quality observatory in the middle of the peninsula, where it has been measuring concentrations of greenhouse gases, a cause of global climate change, since 1970.