Kohama Island (小浜島, Kohama-jima) (Yaeyama: Kumoo, Okinawan: Kubama) is an island in the Yaeyama Islands group at the southwestern end of the Ryukyu Islands chain, and part of Taketomi, Yaeyama District, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. The island has an area of 7.84 km2 (3.03 sq mi), with a surrounding area of 16.6 km2 (6.4 sq mi). The island is located about 25 minutes by ferry from Ishigaki Island, which is the transportation and business center of the Yaeyama Islands.
The 2001 NHK drama series Churasan was set on the island. Shinobu Miyara, former member of Da Pump, is from Kohama-jima. The octogenarian "idol" group, KBG84, has given Kohama much media coverage.[1]
^ Henry Johnson (2020) Beyond the Mainland: Okinawa, Palimpsestic Geography and Octogenarian Island Idols, Popular Music and Society, DOI: 10.1080/03007766.2020.1730653
KohamaIsland (小浜島, Kohama-jima) (Yaeyama: Kumoo, Okinawan: Kubama) is an island in the Yaeyama Islands group at the southwestern end of the Ryukyu Islands...
endemic to the two islands of Ishigaki and Iriomote in the Yaeyama Islands. Aerial view of Ishigaki island, Taketomi and Kohamaisland, 2014 Kabira Bay...
Island (Ishigaki-jima) Taketomi Town Aragusuku Island (Aragusuku-jima) Hateruma Island (Hateruma-jima) Iriomote Island (Iriomote-jima) KohamaIsland (Kohama-jima)...
Aragusuku Island (Aragusuku-jima) Hateruma Island (Hateruma-jima) Iriomote Island (Iriomote-jima) Kayama Island (Kayama-jima) KohamaIsland (Kohama-jima)...
are found in the Ryukyu Islands of Japan: Protobothrops elegans, a.k.a. the Sakishima habu, found in the southern Ryukyu Islands Protobothrops flavoviridis...
northeast of KohamaIsland. It is known for its rabbit population, numbering anywhere between 500 and 1,000. Travel agencies offer tours to the island. "Kayama...
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Kohama (小浜, 小濵 or 粉浜) may refer to: Kohama-chō (小浜町), an area of Toyohashi in Japan Kohama-gobo, one of the names of Gosho-ji, a Buddhist temple in Takarazuka...
family Lacertidae. It is endemic to the Yaeyama Islands (Ishigaki Island, Iriomote Island, KohamaIsland and Kuroshima) in southern Japan. The name "Takydromus"...
genus of Aureisphaera which has been isolated from an ascidian from the KohamaIsland. "Species: Aureisphaera salina". lpsn.dsmz.de. Yoon, Jaewoo; Adachi...
Mike; Kroman, David (April 15, 2023). "WA ferry runs aground on Bainbridge Island after losing power". The Seattle Times. Retrieved April 16, 2023. "WSF ferry...
species of bird in the family Columbidae. It is endemic to the Ryukyu Islands in Japan. It was formerly considered a subspecies of the Taiwan green pigeon...
Electric Railway. Kohama Station is served by the Nankai Main Line, and has the station number "NK07". The station has two island platforms serving two...
neighboring Ryukyuan languages. Yaeyama is spoken in Ishigaki, Taketomi, Kohama, Kuroshima, Hatoma, Aragusuku, Iriomote and Hateruma, with complications...
Andersen, 1918 — Ishigaki Island, Taketomi Island R. p. imaizumii Hill & Yoshikuki, 1980 — Iriomote Island, KohamaIsland The bat's external morphology...
Xu X, Yang S, Um JH, Koch LG, Britton SL, Lieber RL, Philp A, Baar K, Kohama SG, Abel ED, Kim MK, Chung JH. DNA-PK Promotes the Mitochondrial, Metabolic...