Ushima island

What it is

• A small island in the Miyakubo Strait used as a Noshima Murakami pirate naval base.
• A residential community where all twenty-three inhabitants share only two different surnames.
• A former agricultural settlement established by migrants from Sajima during the Edo period.
• The ancestral home of the Oda family who served as island leaders for generations.

What to see

• Castle ruins located at the southern end of the island.
• A temple hall built by Oda Gonshiro dating back to seventeen seventy-two.
• The highest point of the island reaching eighty-four meters above sea level.

Getting there

• A ferry connects the island to nearby Oshima and Hakatajima.

Notes written by Japan Gems from facts in Japanese Wikipedia.