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title: Awashima & Shishijima
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# 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

- [A great camphor tree and a garden in the sky: island life in the Seto Inland Sea](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/episodes/setouchi-1/index.md): Island Life in the Seto Inland Sea, Part 1（2023-05-07）

## Cook the local flavors once more

- [Niku mosso](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/niku-mosso/index.md): A beef version of mossou-meshi, a traditional dish of Mitoyo.

## A little of each town’s story

- [Awashima](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/awashima-setouchi-1/index.md): One of the Shiwaku Islands, about 4.5 km northwest of Takuma port in Mitoyo.
- [The boat between Awashima and Shishijima](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/boat-between-awashima-and-shishijima/index.md): Awashima Kisen runs passenger boats between Suda and Miyanoshita ports on the mainland and Awashima, Kamishinden and Shishijima.
- [Shishijima](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/shishijima/index.md): A small island in the Shiwaku group, part of Mitoyo (formerly Takuma town), about 0.74 square kilometers.
- [The Great Camphor Tree of Shishijima](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/great-camphor-tree-of-shishijima/index.md): A giant camphor tree on the hillside on the north side of the island.
- [The Flower Garden in the Sky](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/flower-garden-in-the-sky/index.md): After the war, Shishijima thrived on growing pyrethrum and flowers; at its peak more than a hundred farms raised chrysanthemums, stock, marguerites, calendula and more for Buddhist altars, and it was…
- [Kusunokura Observatory](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/kusunokura-observatory/index.md): A handmade lookout that the islanders built together on the rise above the great camphor tree.
- [Tora-san and this island](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/tora-san-and-this-island/index.md): The 46th film in the Tora-san series, released in December 1993, directed by Yoji Yamada, with Keiko Matsuzaka as the leading lady.

## Places we stopped along the way

- [Iseya Shoten](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/iseya-shoten/index.md): A rest stop just steps from the port of Shishijima, in an old house said to date from the Edo period.