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...WILD SIDE Had it with history? Go play outside. The Izu west coast offers a variety of outdoor fun. From Shimoda station, take the hour-long bus ride to Dogashima then wind your way down the peninsula toward Irozaki, Izu's southernmost point...
...Irozaki, the final stop on the line, features the "Jungle Park," an excellent showcase of tropical birds and plants with a soundtrack straight out of King Kong. To reach the southernmost tip of the Izu, walk through a torii, or Shinto gate, near the rear exit of the Jungle Park and step down past a little shrine. There you'll look out over jutting rocks as fishing and cargo boats ply the black waters to the south. I was thoroughly enjoying the isolated, out-of-this-world feeling, when I met Naoki Taira, a 25-year-old Tokyoite...
Chiran is a hike. Located on the southernmost tip of Japan, the tiny town lies hours from any major city and deep in a valley surrounded by a fortress of mountains. Yet on a mid-August national holiday, visitors throng its sleepy streets and pack its inns. They've come not for Chiran's green tea and purple yams, nor for its exquisitely preserved samurai estates?but to honor its kamikaze pilots...
Today, Nagasaki offers a respite for travelers exhausted by Tokyo's frenetic chaos. The city is located on Kyushu, Japan's pristine southernmost island where snow-capped volcanoes punctuate patchwork landscapes of vegetable farms. Surrounding waters contain more than 500 small islands. Even the airport is located on an island, albeit one barely larger than the runway...
...were heading for the sparsely inhabited island of Selayar, 75 kilometers south of the southernmost tip of Sulawesi. The trip takes about eight hours, and by midnight, most of the dozen passengers were already asleep in their bunks, rocked by the gentle motion of the waves. Haji, the 68-year-old, one-eyed captain, was up in the darkened bridge, sitting cross-legged on a stool to the right of the wheel, making constant and almost imperceptible adjustments to the course of the ship. Navigational instruments?radar, sonar and GPS?glowed faintly on the control panel, but Haji paid them...