| Finally, at last, the remote islands
of Ogasawara got listed on the World Heritage
of Nature (UNESCO). This is only behind other
three natural heritage of Shirakami Sanchi
(Akita and Aomori, 2005), Shiretoko (Hokkaido,
2005) and Yakushima (Kagoshima, 1993). Ogasawara
islands has never been attached to
any continent geographically so far from
the birth of our earth, so unique flora and
fauna can be seen, well, only the "intruders"
are Japanese, American, Spanish, French and
English. It is located south of Tokyo capital,
some 1,000 km away in a middle of Pacific
Ocean, only the mean of transportation is
by slow ferry which takes about 25 hours.
Ogasawara Kaiun has the home page. |
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| You may recall the movie, Letters From Iwo Jima (io jima or iwo to). The island (io island)
is within Ogasawara chains, but the WW2 battle
field is of course not the World Heritage
site. Residence registration can be done
only for two main islands, Chichi jima (father
island) and Haha jima (mother island). You
may be interested in visiting other smaller
remote islands, but not recommend to land
on io jima (due to military) and minami-torishima
(due to its fragile situation, actually the
island is almost washed away by pacific waves). |
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| Katsuodori (Katsuo Tori), Bonin Flying Fox,
Brown Booby (Sula leucogaster), Mandarina
suenoae (a species of air-breathing land
snail), and Bonin people (mix blood of possiblly
Japanese, American, Spanish, French and English)
are waiting for you. By the way, the word
Bonin came from Bunin or Bujin which means
that no-people in Japanese language. |
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| The way from Asakusa to Ogasawara Islands |
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| It is straight and direct subway train from
Asakusa to Daimon (on Toei Asakusa Line,
pink color line), from where the ferry pier
Takeshiba is only short walking distance. |
| http://www.ogasawarakaiun.co.jp/access/ |
| http://www.kotsu.metro.tokyo.jp/eng/index.html
(A18 to A09) |
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| You may be interested in including another
islands ( http://www.tokaikisen.co.jp/english/shipinfo/searoute/ ) into your itinerary with Ogasawa islands,
but please note that there is no direct ferry
from izu islands to ogasawara islands. Takeshiba
ferry terminal is the only connecting place. |
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