Remote Islands between Japan and Russia - Rebun and Rishiri
After a year of traveling Japan, I realized this country can offer such a varied experience for a tourist. Of course most visitors' priority is the booming cities and amazing temples, but camping and hitchhiking is also world class. My girlfriend and I camped and hiked our way around these two remote and very different islands between Russia and Japan.
They are accessed by taking a 6-7 hour drive North from Sapporo, Hokkaido to the city of Wakkanai. From Wakkanai there is a passenger ferry that services both isolated islands. I've circled them on a map oh Japan below.
Rebun
Rebun Island is almost treeless island of rolling hills and rugged coastline known to tourists for its 'hachi jikan hikingu cousu', eight hour hiking trail that crosses the island from end to end. This island is cold and windswept enough to hardly have any trees, a stark difference from the lush forests of the major islands of Japan. After doing lots of camping and hiking around Japan, the windswept, northern landscape was really surprising to me, but then again this is pretty close to Japan's further point North.
One day maybe :-)
I guess some places area amazing because they are inaccessible
Pics and maps of those islands would help your post greatly.
@darthnava Have a look here - http://bit.ly/2ckDwrP
Thanks for reading, I had quite a few pics and a map and some more details but I decided to remove it since it was not getting any interest after the first 20 hours or so. I may not totally understand how steem works, but losing control and never being able to delete personal photos better mean I earn something from the post.
Steemit actually doesn't retain any of your photos. From my understanding the blockchain would get so huge so fast that it wouldn't be possible to load if it actually stored all the picture data. Instead all the blockchain retains is the link info. Therefore if you delete the photo from it's hosted storage it won't be visible any more. As a side note, it's probably a good idea to remove the photography tag as well if the post no longer has any photos.
Yes good point about the tags, too late to edit now :(
It is one of my greatest dreams to explore the Kuril Islands, the archipelago connecting the Kamchatka peninsula of Russia and Hokkaido...in particular, by sailboat, bringing along equipment to climb some of the incredible peaks along the way, including Atlasov...
I saw these on the flight from Chicago to Osaka, they look really amazing.