日本最東端、凍てつくなかで迎える日の出。

Feature | 2026.3.24


−4℃の極寒のなか、日本でいちばん早い日の出を鑑賞。大自然の圧倒的な美しさに感動。

風が吹けばカラダもココロも冷え切る。
雪と海と大地からなる風景は荒々しく、それが寒さに輪をかける。

Sunrise in the freezing cold at Japan’s eastern edge.

At 5:30 AM on January 21, I stepped out of my inn into a cold so biting it made my fingertips and ears ache instantly. I drove cautiously through the dark toward Cape Nosappu, navigating snowy roads. Arriving 45 minutes later, I found two other cars already waiting in the freezing silence. As dawn broke after 6:00 AM, the snowy silhouettes of the Northern Territories emerged across the water, their proximity startling in the growing light. At 6:45 AM, the sun finally broke. While the thermometer read a bitter -7℃, the sheer majesty of the landscape—the white snow against the deep blue Sea of Okhotsk—made me forget the cold entirely. In that silent, sacred moment, Japan’s earliest sunrise felt beautiful enough to shift one’s very perspective on life. It was a glimpse of nature so divine that it transcended the physical chill.

宿の朝食は焼き魚がメイン。素朴で美味しく、温かみにあふれていた。

海辺も街なかも、寒々としたなかにある。与那国の取材チームがうらやましい。

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端と端。

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端と端。

知るほどに日本は広い、という話。

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