[1] Taketomi Town, and especially Iriomote Island, is host to the Iriomote cat and the crested serpent eagle (special natural monuments), the Chinese box turtle and the Ryūkyū emerald dove (natural monuments), as well as the Sakishima grass lizard (endemic to the Yaeyama Islands).

The whole area of Tatetomi Town, including the surrounding sea, is part of the Iriomote-Ishigaki National Park.

[2] The Yaeyama Islands being located at a low latitude, 84 of the 88 constellations are visible,[3] including the Southern Cross when the conditions are good.

[4] The land part of the Iriomote-Ishigaki National Park, including Taketomi Town, was designated by DarkSky International as the first dark-sky preserve in Japan on March the 30th 2018.

Taketomi Town hosts sixty-three designated or registered tangible cultural properties and monuments, at the national, prefectural or municipal level.