If there is one island that qualifies as a local open secret, it is Himakajima. Located about 70 minutes from Nagoya, the transport hub and economic center of central Japan, this island is well off the typical...

Tucked away at the tip of the Miura Peninsula, which is between Kamakura and Yokohama, are two of Kanagawa Prefecture’s best kept secrets: Jogashima Island and Misaki Port. Separated by approximately 300 meters of...

Winter in Hokkaido is in a class of its own. The vast snow covered landscape, icy cold temperatures, drift ice and frozen water bodies, these are scenes that are uniquely Hokkaido. In my quest for unique and remote...

Legend has it that back when the Japanese Shinto gods Izanaginomikoto and Izanaminomikoto were in the process of creating Japan, they first created the island now known as Awajishima before creating the rest of Japan....

In this episode of Far Flung, we head to a more well-known island and considerably fun island in the Seto Inland Sea: Okunoshima Island, more popularly known as Rabbit Island. The small island has a circumference of...

The Yaeyama Islands are a popular holiday destination for city dwellers and even more so during the summer months when school is out. For our second Far Flung trip this summer (the first can be seen here), we visited...

Summer in Japan is typically hot and muggy, and many locals escape to either the highlands to avoid the heat or head straight for the islands for some tropical fun in the sun. This summer’s edition of Far Flung sees...

Winter in Japan very often has two camps of people: those who love the cold and winter activities, and those who stay indoors where it is warm and wish for warm weather to arrive sooner...

The Shiretoko Peninsula can be considered as one of Japan’s last suriving wilderness that has largely remained untouched by humans...

Carrying on from where I left off on Ojika Island, I made my way to Nozaki Island (Nozakijima) just 30 minutes away by ferry. Despite being closer...

One might easily forget that Japan is an island if you live on Honshu, the country’s largest island. You could live so far inland that the trip to the sea...