Japan's Remote Islands

About this book

Japan is drawn as four islands. It is really an archipelago of thousands — and this book is the guide to the other two hundred.

Japan's Remote Islands covers 200 islands in one traveller's format: the island's overview, the one highlight it does like no other, the ferry route in honest outline (departure port and crossing character — never a fake timetable), how island life and its table actually work, and the single visiting note that matters most. The Izu volcanoes a night from Tokyo. The Seto Inland Sea's art islands, cat islands and citrus islands. The Goto chain's hidden-Christian churches, Tsushima's border mountains, and the Amakusa coasts. The coral staircase of Tokara, Amami and Okinawa. Hokkaido's flower and seabird islands, Tohoku's oyster and cat islands, the Oki archipelago — and, labelled plainly in their own entries, the sacred, sanctuary and frontier islands that can be seen but not landed on, or not visited at all.

It is honest where other books go vague: ferry times and fares change, so instead of printing a timetable that will rot, the practical chapters teach you how to read and confirm every sailing, how island transport, inns and kitchens really run, and how to build the spare day that turns a cancelled boat from a disaster into a story.

Sail to the island. Japan rewards it more than any country on earth.

Written and created in Japan by Japanese author Aki Wakamatsu. Published by Takikawa TOKOTOKO Kids LLC, a Japanese publisher in Hokkaido, Japan. Authentic Japanese content, carefully made in Japan — not mass-produced.