Travel Guide Fukue-Jima

Along with Nakadori-Jima, Fukue-Jima is part of the Gotō-retto Islands, an archipelago with more than 150 islands and islets. Fukue Island is the largest and southernmost of the Gotō Islands. Fukue is a small fishing port and has established itself as the economic capital of these small islands and the rest of the archipelago. A hill, Tetega Take, rises to a height of 460 meters. Ishida-jō was the castle of the Daimyō who took the name of Gotō. It burned in 1614 and was restored in 1849 by Moriakira Gotō. North of Fukue, the church of Dōzaki Tenshudō was built in 1874 and restored by the French father Marmande.