Visiting One of Japan’s Most Remote Islands
<p>Allow me to tell the story of two separate encounters with a magical place on a remote Japanese island.</p>
<p>Reaching it takes a full day of travel. Getting there, in a nutshell — take the bullet train from Tokyo across Japan’s main island, continuing through Kyushu to the final stop at its southernmost point. There, at Kagoshima, board the hydrofoil ferry that heads out to the open sea — first navigating the smooth waters of Kagoshima Bay, then rounding the tip of Satsuma Peninsula, then through the choppy waters of the East China Sea, until finally, at 30°N/130°E, you arrive at the island of Yakushima 屋久島.</p>
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