CHUGOKU / SHIKOKU
Awashima & Shishijima
Travel journal from Awashima & Shishijima, with 9 notes on the places I ate, the dishes I cooked and the sights: Awashima, Shishijima, The Great Camphor Tree of Shishijima, The Flower Garden in the Sky.
Journeys: 1 · Notes: 9
Journeys
01
Cook the local flavors once more
Dishes made in borrowed kitchens, and how each one connects to the land.
02
A little of each town’s story
Sights, specialties and how the towns came to be: small cultural notes beside each journey.
Mitoyo, Kagawa
Awashima
One of the Shiwaku Islands, about 4.5 km northwest of Takuma port in Mitoyo.
From: A great camphor tree and a garden in the sky: island life in the Seto Inland Sea
Mitoyo, Kagawa
The boat between Awashima and Shishijima
Awashima Kisen runs passenger boats between Suda and Miyanoshita ports on the mainland and Awashima, Kamishinden and Shishijima.
From: A great camphor tree and a garden in the sky: island life in the Seto Inland Sea
Mitoyo, Kagawa
Shishijima
A small island in the Shiwaku group, part of Mitoyo (formerly Takuma town), about 0.74 square kilometers.
From: A great camphor tree and a garden in the sky: island life in the Seto Inland Sea
Mitoyo, Kagawa
The Great Camphor Tree of Shishijima
A giant camphor tree on the hillside on the north side of the island.
From: A great camphor tree and a garden in the sky: island life in the Seto Inland Sea
Mitoyo, Kagawa
The Flower Garden in the Sky
After the war, Shishijima thrived on growing pyrethrum and flowers; at its peak more than a hundred farms raised chrysanthemums, stock, marguerites, calendula a…
From: A great camphor tree and a garden in the sky: island life in the Seto Inland Sea
Mitoyo, Kagawa
Kusunokura Observatory
A handmade lookout that the islanders built together on the rise above the great camphor tree.
From: A great camphor tree and a garden in the sky: island life in the Seto Inland Sea
Mitoyo, Kagawa
Tora-san and this island
The 46th film in the Tora-san series, released in December 1993, directed by Yoji Yamada, with Keiko Matsuzaka as the leading lady.
From: A great camphor tree and a garden in the sky: island life in the Seto Inland Sea
03
Places we stopped along the way
What we ate and bought, with shop details checked against published listings.
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Cinema Onomichi, The former Yamato-yu bathhouse, Onomichi Hondori Shopping Street
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Sanagi Island, Maki Hachiman Shrine, Awashima
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Hirakiyama Park, The Kurushima Kaikyo Bridge and the Shimanami Kaido, The beach and harbor at Asanamihara
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Shimonada Station, Futami, where the setting sun stops for a moment, Fisherman's rice in dashi
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Mt. Shiudeyama, Chichibugahama Beach, Café corner, Shiudeyama Site Museum
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