This has been one of the most amazing places I’ve been to in Japan. It’s way down south, closer to Taiwan than mainland Japan. We stayed five days in a little minshuku, or inn. The eighty year ‘mama-san’ who ran the place was fantastic. In addition to the two meals a day already provided for, she sent us off every day with something for lunch. We hired a car and spent our days exploring. There is one road on the island, speed limit 40km. On one side you have the sea and white beaches, on the other the jungle-like interior and rice paddies.