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Ogasawara NP, Tokyo
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Town lights can send Omura’s hatchlings inland, so eggs are moved to a hatchery after sex is set. During 2024’s 265-nest season—the highest in 7 years—schoolchildren helped retrieve eggs for protection.
To keep nesting mother turtles from wandering into park grounds, staff built a coral-dust berm along the beach edge. After typhoons washed earlier mounds away, they packed the coral dust inside weather-resistant mesh.
Omura Beach marks New Year’s Day with what park officials call Japan’s earliest beach opening. In 2025, taiko and island dances shared the program with first-swim certificates and a green-turtle release.
Islanders often call Omura Beach “Maehama”—“front beach”—because it lies just in front of the Omura neighborhood. Local guides say many island toddlers make their first sea outing here.
At the summer festival beside Omura Beach, Bon dancing starts early: practice sessions begin 2 days before, and participants earn a certificate. From the beach, you can hear the surf beneath the festival fireworks.
Omura’s pale “coral-dust” beach is a pocket-sized coral gallery: Tokyo’s visitor guide notes that fragments from different corals can be spotted in the sand. Look down as well as out at the blue.
Omura can look spotless, yet tiny plastic fragments hide on the beach. Since 2020, park staff have invited islanders and visitors to clean together; volunteers even receive a microplastic-recovery certificate.
