CHUGOKU / SHIKOKU
Sanagi Island
Travel journal from Sanagi Island, with 7 notes on the places I ate, the dishes I cooked and the sights: Sanagi Island, Maki Hachiman Shrine, Awashima, Shippoku udon.
Journeys: 1 · Notes: 7
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.
Tadotsu, Kagawa
Sanagi Island
One of the Shiwaku Islands, off the coast of Tadotsu.
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Tadotsu, Kagawa
Maki Hachiman Shrine
A Hachiman shrine on the shore of Awashima.
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Tadotsu, Kagawa
Oiri
A wedding sweet long handed down in western Kagawa.
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Tadotsu, Kagawa
Awashima
An island of the Shiwaku group, about 15 minutes by boat from Suda port in Mitoyo.
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03
Places we stopped along the way
What we ate and bought, with shop details checked against published listings.
Tadotsu, Kagawa
Kissa Nekonoshima
A café attached to a guesthouse in the former Sanagi Elementary School, a wooden schoolhouse built in 1954.
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Tadotsu, Kagawa
Takeuchi Shoten
The island's only shop, about three minutes' walk from Awashima port, selling food, daily goods, drinks, ice cream and souvenirs.
From: Drawn by the sea breeze and the cats to Sanagi Island
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Cinema Onomichi, The former Yamato-yu bathhouse, Onomichi Hondori Shopping Street
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Awashima, Shishijima, The Great Camphor Tree of Shishijima
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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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