Kashiko Island

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Kashiko Island
"Made based on National Land Image Information (Color Aerial Photographs), Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism"

Kashiko Island (賢島, Kashiko-jima) is an island in Ago Bay. It is located in the city of Shima, Mie Prefecture, Japan.

The island was uninhabited until the 1920s when a railway built by Shima Electric Railway (now the known as the Kintetsu Shima Line) was constructed there to serve as the endpoint of the line. This railway sparked the creation of a tourism industry which still thrives. Kintetsu runs limited express trains from both Osaka and Nagoya directly to this island and has many business enterprises there.

The surface area of the island is 0.66 km² and the circumference is 7.3 km.

Gallery

• Kashikojima and Honshu.jpg

  Kashiko Island Great Bridge
  Right side of this picture is Kashiko Island.

• Shima Kanko Hotel 20081214.jpg

  Shima Kanko Hotel CLASSIC

• Kompira-gu in Kashikojima01.jpg

  Kompira Shrine

• Kashikojima Port 01.jpg

  Port of Kashikojima

• Shima-marineland.JPG

  Shima Marine Land

• Kashikojima Station02.jpg

  North wing of Kashikojima Station