The area between the coast of Miyazaki and the northward-bound Japan Current is an ideal fishing ground. Fish are plentiful, and many different varieties are caught depending on the season. In-shore fishing catches include sardine, horse mackerel, spiny lobster and frog crab. Bonito and tuna are among the fish caught by offshore and deep-sea fishing. Fish farming of red sea bream, yellowtail, eel, sweetfish and carp is also popular.

Chemical Factories Concentrated in Nobeoka City Electrical Machinery Production Facility

The production of daily goods such as food, beverages and tobacco accounts for approximately 30% of the manufacturing industry. With electrical machinery and chemicals added, the total becomes 60%. In recent years, new electrical machinery and electronics factories are sprouting in the Miyazaki City vicinity. Local industries include the manufacture of furniture, martial arts wares and wooden 'Go' game boards, as well as the production of processed foods such as ham, processed Japanese tea, Shochu distilled spirits and other alcoholic beverages.

Seagaia

The Nichinan Coast of Southern Miyazaki is lined with phoenix palm trees, and is full of a tropical air. Its mild and sunny winter makes Miyazaki an ideal location for professional Japanese baseball and soccer teams to hold their winter practice camps. Miyazaki has long been a traditional honeymooner's resort, and it is said that 40% of Japanese honeymooners chose to come here in the days before the foreign travel boom. Seagaia, a large-scale resort and convention facility possessing a variety of resort facilities, opened in 1994 attracting both domestic and international businessmen and vacationers. The number of tourists coming to Miyazaki from such foreign regions as Hong Kong and Taiwan is on the rise, and Miyazaki is entering a new phase as a favored tourist destination.