Last Updated: Jan 8, 2024

Suooshima, the Hawaii of Setouchi

Backyard Tourism Vol. 14

This story was originally published on donnykimball.com and has been syndicated here on Medium

Welcome back to another installment of Backyard Tourism. If this is your first time reading one of these articles, know that the goal of this ongoing series is to take places that no one knows about and show how storytelling and good marketing can bring them to life. Like every other Backyard Tourism article, my goal is not to say that you should definitely visit these obscure locales. Instead, I want to illustrate the fact that just about any part of Japan can have international appeal if it is done its due justice. Honestly speaking, I’ve now been traveling nonstop for the better part of a decade and have yet to come across anywhere that has disappointed me in Japan.

Anyway, today we are going to be taking a look at the island of Suooshima. Often rendered in English as “Suo Oshima” or “Suo-Oshima,” I’ll be opting to stick with Suo Oshima from here on out to stay consistent with the nomenclature precedent that I set before in my Osaki Kamishima article. Just know that all three of these renditions confusingly refer to the same island. At the end of the day, I wish some entity would standardize all these official names and how they get written in English. While the variance is minor to humans, they might as well all be different locations as far as our…