Japan
November 9, 2026 Travelling to Another Island Today is another travel day. We are taking the train from Hiroshima on Honshu Island to Kagoshima on Kyushu Island. All the places we have visited up to now have been on Honshu Island or small islands off of Honshu Island. To get from one Honshu island to the Kyushu Island, the train travels through a tunnel under the water. Leaving Honshu Island means leaving most of the tourists behind. When we arrived at the train station we walked to one end of the train station (which wasn't very far) and walked into our hotel. How convenient. Our tour guide was waiting for us in the hotel, so we boarded a bus and began our tour for the day. We drove to ferry dock and sailed to Sakurajima. In the distance we can see Mount Skurajima spewing steam. Sakurajima is an active stratovolcano, formerly and island and now a peninsula. Sakurajima became a peninsula in January 1914 during the powerful Taisho Eruption. It is the most ac...