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The Amami Oshima Island VR video collection

The realization of Amami Oshima Island 360-degree spatial audio!

To watch on your computer,
Please select your image quality matched to your own viewing environment in the settings (the screw icon)
in the lower right corner of the screen (4k to 2160s).
What to reflect in the video soon after changing the image quality depends on the environment. Please be patient and wait.

The 4K viewing requires the matched environments(4K displays and compatible PCs).
In the environments other than these, you sometimes can’t watch smoothly because of the heavy processing.

To watch with VR goggles,
On your smartphone, access to the links which you would like to watch.
Tap the video screen and the marks of glasses
will appear at the bottom of the screen.
To tap them makes two eyes.
You watch here.
To adjust the image quality on the smartphones, tap the screen to find the three points
on the right hand-side top and on the lined-up icons.
Tap these and adjust the item of image quality.
Concerning watching with the two-eye headsets (VR goggles),
children under 13 years old are prohibited to watch by using them.

To watch with smartphones,
YouTube application has to be installed in your mobile terminal.
When you watch on Android mobile phones,
please use Google Chrome for your WEBbrowser.

Tours of Slow Guide Amami

The August Dance in Kakeroma Island

The August Dance (Kasari Town)

Tha August Dance in Yamato Village

About Policy on the Protection of Personal Information (privacy policy)

Joint Stock Company AMAMYUZE (hereinafter referred to as our association) is aware of the importance of Personal Information Protection and recognizes that it is our important social obligation to use and supervise it. And our association hereby decides on Personal Information Protection Guidelines and protects our customers’ personal information.

1. The Acquisition of Personal Information

Our association specifies the purposes of use as in detail as possible and does not exceed the limits in order to reach the acquisition purpose needed.
Our association uses lawful and fair means to acquire personal information.

2. Utilization of Personal Protection

Our association utilizes the personal protection within the limit of necessities.

3. Third-Party Offers of Personal Protection

Our association does not offer any personal information except in the following cases:

without our customers’ agreement,
or the existence of the statistical data not to be able to recognize the person himself, or disclose and provide the personal information,
There exists the necessity to disclose to the outsourcing companies with airtight retention agreement,
in the case of the business succession such as the business transfer, etc,
in the case of offering to the third party with the conditions to stop offering, agreed by himself, under the Law of Personal Information Protection, Clause 2 Article 23, and the Law.
When, other than each front issue, it is determined by laws and ordinances.

4. Personal Data Management

Our association takes necessary and appropriate safety control measures to the unauthorized access to this information and computer virus protection in order to protect the lost, destruction and alteration and leakage of the personal data.
Our association continuously implements education and enlightenment activities for the protection of personal information to all the employees.

5. Suspension of Use, Notice, Disclosure and Alteration of the Personal Information in Possession

Our association takes an immediate measure, when requested by the customers, and after the verification of identity, to the notice of the purpose of the use, disclosure and alteration of the customers’ personal information in our possession.

6. The Development of the System

Arranging a chief executive officer, and a personal information manager, our association makes efforts to protect the customers’ personal information, which is one of our personal information protection tackles.

7. The Observation of the Law

Our association observes any laws and norms concerned about personal information protection.

8. Maintenance and Improvement

Our association maintains any rules and regulations concerned with personal information protection, making continuous efforts for maintenance and improvement.

9. The Technical Matters Concerned

Our association cannot identify the individual based on the information, although it is recorded as the customers’ access log terminal information (IP address, kinds of browsers, names of domain hours of access, etc.)
We publicize the access log information of statistically disposed data for the purpose of operations management, not for other purposes.

The definitions of “personal information” and “personal information in possession” in this guideline accord with “the Law of Personal Information Protection.”

December 26, 2017
Amamuse Co.Limited

cautions about the tours
（common to all the tours）

The applications are to be made one day in advance by email.
if not, acceptable on the phone from 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Please accept our apologies for impossibilities to corresponde while guiding and moving.
Any individual reservation is welcome. Feel free to ask us at any time.
The fees of the insurance and the guide are all included in the tour prices.
Check the different details in each tour on the pages in the information.
The tours sometimes start at different times. Please provide sufficient times for joining them.
The weather conditions cause the alteration or cancelation of what the tour is.
Your earliest reservation is appreciated once your schedule is determined since our service is offered on a first-come-first-served basis.
（There are some cases where your reservations cannot be made.）
You are obliged to join other tourists in the tours excluding the free tours.
The maximum number of tourists in a tour is seven, six in a free tour, grouped in a small number.
The number over seven can be grouped into two. Please consult with us.
The tours are held regardless of the weather conditions. Rain gears are provided.
In the case of a typhoon heavy or a heavy rain,
please make a phone call at your earliest convenience to check the possibilities of the tours :
one day before, or at the latest, one day before you leave for the tour.
When the tours are clearly determined not to be held due to the weather conditions, we are the ones to get in touch with you.

Slow Guide Agreement

Slow Guide Amami Tour Participation Agreement
in December, 2017

Article I (Participation in Tours)

The participants in our tours are to agree to observe the regulations and the directions set by Slow Guide Amami (hereinafter called our association).

Article II (Refusal to Participate)

Our association compels the applicants to cancel their applications to the tours in the following cases:

our customers submit false statements about matters determined by our association,
or do not make reports required by our association. or perform a deed intolerable for third persons, or impede our association in our smooth business, or when such possibilities are observed
or do not comply with our systems measured by our association,
or as an individual person, excessively apply to participate in the tours,
or offend other participation regulations.

Article III (Reimbursement of participation fee)

The expenses of the tours which the customers take are not to be reimbursed for any reason, once they start.
In any case, the fees( the transportation fee to the spot, the lodging expenses, the correspondence charges, the postage and the commission) are not to be reimbursed.

Article IV (Determination of the Participants)

Our association has the right to determine the ways to select, the number limit and the order of the tour participants when needed.

Article V (Termination of Application)

Our association can terminate the applications when we have received the number of the participants for each tour.

Article VI (Matters for Prohibition)

It is prohibited to resell the tours for more than the participation price set by our company, or the trials to resell through the internet auctions, or the applications as premises. The discovery of the afore-mentioned behaviors will nullify your applications and will not allow your participation in the tour upon our association’s judgement. If you are already a part of the tour, you will be commanded to leave the tour.

Article VII (Disclaimer)

Our association is not responsible for any customers’ or the third persons’ losses caused by any unexpected disorder of communication networks, or the lateness or impossibilities of applications.

Article VIII (Effects of Contracts)

It is taken for granted that our customers follow any one of the ways of application in Article II set by our association and the customers’ applications are completed at the time when any one of them is notified.
The way to notify the completion of applications done through a Web Site is sent to the e-mail address indicated at the time of the application.
The tours are to be reserved. For application on the day, when fulfilled, we cannot offer the service. When adding more people, please be sure to make a reservation.
Any before-hand reservation without any failure is appreciated. There will be a 100% cancellation fee, if you cancel without contact on the day of the tour.

Article IX (Publicity)

Through newspapers, TV, radios, magazines, the customers can be taken in video, and interviewed during the tours for the purposes of publication and commerce.
The right of publication belongs to our association.

Article X (Damages to Property)

The participants are responsible for any damage to property, and for the competition equipment management. Our association is not responsible for the loss or damage thereof.

Article XI (Health Care)

The participants are responsible for health care by themselves. Our association does not take any responsibility in any case.
You are requested to take care of your accidents, injuries, sudden illnesses while on tour. When physical conditions worsen. please make a report on your judgement to decline or terminate the tour. When you give troubles to others, you are to solve them among the parties concerned.
Please keep in mind that the insurance partially covers, but not all. Please be aware that the accidents caused by the customers’ uncarefulness are not subjected. The insurance is applied only to the period of time from beginning to end of the tour, not to the period of the return time.
In the case that the participants encounter accidents or injuries, the tours can be partially or totally cancelled on the spot, or requested to offer any cooperation to save and treat the injured, or to prevent secondary disasters.

Article XII ( Alteration of Tours)

Any change to the worse weather and atmospheric tour conditions unexpectedly causes what the tour is.

Article XIII (Responsibility of Representative)

When one applicant is a representative, the applicant is considered to have informed all the other applicants of the regulations concerned. The applicant is considered to be responsible for making the regulations known and informed and agreed to all the minorities’ guardians.

Article XIV (Application Made by Minorities)

Minorities are required to make applications with their guardians’ agreements.

Article XV (Others)

When our association has agreements and regulations other than the above mentioned, we will take a measure corresponding to the situations. The change of our business details will cause the addition of articles to the tour regulations without any before-handed notification.
When the applicants are not in time to join the tour, the applicants are to join the tour on the way. Please earnestly join the tour at the meeting time .

Additional Clauses
These regulations are active in December, 2017.

Amami Oshima island?

Amami Oshima is not only one island, but also includes the remote island around Amami Oshima.
All these islands are called Amami Oshima Islands.
The largest island is Amami Oshima main island.

Next, there is Kakeroma island in just south of Amami Oshima main island.
There are Uke island and Yoro island in the south of Kakeroma island.
These are inhabited islands.

Although there are other desert islands around there, we call the 4 inhabited islands including the surrounding desert islands Amami Oshima islands.

Furthermore, Kikaijima is located just northeast of Amami,
and Tokunoshima, Okinoerabujima, and Yoronjima (Kagoshima Prefecture up to Yoronjima) are located to the south, and the main island of Okinawa is to the south.

Generally speaking, it has a circumference of 460 km and an area of 712 square kilometers.

Amami Oshima is the second largest to Sado Island among the remote islands of Japan, except for the main island of Okinawa.Second largest island That’s right.

Amami’s administrative divisions are five municipalities, “Amami City, Tatsugo Town, Yamato Village, Uken Village, Setouchi Town” from north to south.
About 60,000 people live in Amami Oshima.

Amami AirportIn the northern part of the country, there are rolling hills, and the flat terrain is used for active agriculture.
Many sugar cane fields can be seen along the road heading south from Amami Airport.

The area south of the central part is surrounded by deep mountains, and the plain extends slightly to the foot of the mountain.
And there, small villages are scattered.

In the central and southern regions, there are more mountains than in the northern regions, so it rains more and is suitable for growing fruit trees. Especially in recent years, Amami’s 「Tankan (oranges)」 has a good reputation for its good taste.

Other specialties include plums, passion fruit, guava, and mango.

Further south, in Setouchi Town, the aquaculture industry (pearls, bluefin tuna, etc.) using the complex coves of the Oshima Strait is flourishing.

Amami is a warm Island.

Amami is a warm island with the average temperature 21 degrees C. in the subtropical climate.
In summer 33.34 degrees C. , or about 35 degrees C. at the highest.

Kumaya in Saitama Prefecture and Tajimi in Gifu Prefecture in Honshu, are famous for the highest record of temperature of over 40 degrees C.,
which is impossible in Amami.

In the nationwide weather forecast in summer, rather cooler days than in Honshu, are reported.
Why is it so? Because it is an island surrounded by the ocean. It never gets hot!

Big cities have so-called heat island phenomena caused by air conditioning.
The island has no relation to them.
The island is rather cooler than the big cities.

Living in Amami Oshima is the small consumption and expenditure on clothes and heating in winter.
On the contrary, higher in price is the expenditure of gasoline and transportation!

The temperature itself does not go up so much. But the sunlight is so strong.
One hour exposure to direct sunlight often causes sunburn.
The islanders are accustomed to it, but be careful of too-much of it.

On the contrary, it gets unexpectedly cold, because the wind blows strongly from the north.
But in the daytime in winter it is comparatively warm.
Sometimes the strong wind blows from the north. On windy and rainy days, the temperature gets to 3-5 degrees C. It is very cold.

Let’s go to the ocean in Amami!

Amami Oshima, the summer island, reminds us of a sea!

The corals surround the island and foster the fullness and blessing of the ocean around this island..

The sea average temperature is 24 degrees C.
How warm it is!

The average temperature in May-to-October is 27 degrees C. and that in November-to April 24 .

The year’s average temperature is 24 degrees. There is no change!
In winter the ocean is warm.

When the ocean is mentioned, swimming matters. When swimmig is mentioned, do matter the beautiful white beaches on the island!

Almost of all the beaches are white sand of coral and shells, although there are some beaches with black sands.
Wherever you go, there are the beaches, without any human being found swimming on the beach!
It does not mean that swimming is prohibited. At any rate, almost no human being is found.

The large summer beaches are usually crowded with the children enjoying the summer vacation.
But it is until the middle of the summer vacation. The beaches are basically private beaches.

We can swim from May to October as noted above.
You can enjoy swimming for quite a long time. You can swim all the year long with wetsuits.

Diving is, off-course, a chance for you to meet the beautiful tropical fishes
and to enjoy snorkeling light-heartedly and satisfyingly.

It is a little difficult from November to April. But from May to October, please come to say Hello and take a look into the ocean,
which will give you a chance to meet the fishes.

Let’s go to the mountains in Amami!

What the visitors talk about Amami is the depth and richness of the mountains.
The highest mountain in Amami is Mt. Yuwan (694 meters high).

Mt. Yuwan in Amami, which is less than 700 meters high, is said to be the highest of the southwest islands.

The mountains. occupy 80 percent of the island.

The most dangerous snakes, Habu snakes, live in the mountains in Amami!

Thoughtlessly you cannot enter the forest or bushes in Amami..

You rarely encounter a habu when you live normally in town,
but you have to be careful when you step into a bush.

To live in Amami, we must not forget the existence of the habu snakes.
Please keep this in the back of your head!

However, even those who live in Nase or in Koniya rarely come
across the Habu Snakes.

It is a fact that the Hubu Snakes cause danger to lives.
It is said that it has been a natural field guardian god of this rich nature.

The Hubu Snakes have been preventing people from getting close to the mountains.
That is why the present nature remains.

Amami Rabbits, National Designation Special Natural Monument, and Lidth’s jay(Luli-kakesu),
endemic birds in Amami, inhabit the mountains in abundance of nature where the Hubu Snakes have been kept intact, A lot of precious wild animals are breathing.

So are the precious plants!

In Amami, there exist vegetations named ooo amami, the species endemic to Amami.

We would like to inherit the nature full of endemic species growing here in Amami and pass it down through the ages to the next generations.

Let’s go to the Mangroves in Amami.

The earth is called a water planet.

The rain falls down from the sky, pours into the mountains, and makes up a valley. A small stream becomes a river, and flows into the ocean.

The sea water evaporates up into the sky, becomes the clouds, and again comes down onto the earth.

The rain falling down on the mountains does not only gather into the rivers but also flows into the ocean, being absorbed and stored in the mountains, and oozing out little by little.

The abundant nutrition in the forests then flows together into the rivers and the oceans.
It provides the mangroves and sea animals with the nutrition.

In the rivers in Amami, there live precious fish named Ryukyu Ayu
that are subspecies a little different from Ayu that inhabit Honshu.

The rich nature in Amanmi, the rivers and mangroves full of nutrition have been contributing to the survival of these precious species.

The water travelling along the rivers will reach the mangroves.
In the mangroves, do propagate the precious animals and plants,
such as Black mangrove (Ohirugi), Kandelia candel(Mehilugi), and looking-glass tree (Sakishimasuounoki),

Huge crabs, Nokogirigazami, and palm sized Shijimi are abundant rare animals.

The abundant inhibition of the rare animals is thanks to the nutrition in the water from the rivers,
The nature in Amami has been protected in the everlasting recycle.

We aspire that this rich nature be kept preserved permanently!

We wish that those who have read our homepages be encouraged to visit us,
“Let’s go to Amami !!“

We appreciate Your consideration of Amami Tours.
We are looking forward to hearing back from you !