Sadogashima

Sadogashima is an island on the Japanese see, which is 4^th biggest island in Japan except for main island, Kyusyu, Shikoku, Hokkaido. The shape of Sadogashima is so unique, it’s like a “S”, “エ” ,or thunder.

Sadogashima belongs to Niigata prefecture, and is famous for Toki, a bird. Academic name of it is Nipponia Nippon, but Japanese national bird is Kiji, hahaha.

L: Toki. R: Kiji

Toki is facing with extinction. It lives in mainly east Asia,(China, Korea, and Japan),but in 2003, Kin, a last Japanese original Toki, was died. So now we have only Chinese Toki in Japan. it is Sadogashima that have them to bleed and let them live in wild.

In the past, Sadogashima is a place that those exiled to. it is said that it had original culture, like a traditional performing arts (they are still coming down), but because of exile mostly from Kyoto, the culture of Sadogashima and West Japan was mixed and formed a particular one.

There are lots of good scenery places of Mountains and See! Especially, Senkakuwan is very famous. The see is so clear and has lots of shelf of coral!