Location : On the Inland Sea between Honshu and Shikoku, West of Awaji Island.
How to get : Many boat are operated from Himeji, Okayama, Uno,
Takamatsu, and so on
Right : View from aerial tramway at Kan Ka Kei
___Shodo Shima is famous island in Japan. But I know a little about. I visited Shodo Shima on May in 1999, maybe. I got on a bus at north side of Himeji JR station about at 10 am. And riding the bus for a while, reached Himeji Port. I don't remember when I got on a ferry boat precisely, but one and half hour later, I landed Fukuda Port located in east of Shodo Shima. A map which I got in the boat indicated that the distance from Fukuda Port to Kan Ka Kei is 11 km. At that time I didn't have a confidence that I could get to Kan Ka Kei before sunset, But I started walking.
___Soon I got through the small village around Fukuda Port. The way turned to up slope. Though the way was paved, gradually what I was doing had come to a kind of mountain climbing. When I got to "Blue Line", it seemed like a highland. Sometimes I was passed by cars, They must have thought I was a kind of mad. About 3 hours walking, I reached the top of Mt. Hoshi Ga Jo where is 817 m height. I found something strange was built there by stone or brick (Left photo).
___No one is seemed to be there around Mt. Hoshi Ga Jo, so that I was terrified a little bit. On the contrary, many visitors were in Kan Ka Kei. I bought a ticket of the aerial tramway, and got on it. It went down to valley (Right Photo).
___I didn't have enough time, I was walking fast from tramway station to Kusa Kabe Port. After 6 km walking, I could get on a bus at Kusakabe Port. And when I reached Fukuda Port, it was almost sunset.
___The ship to Himeji was going in darkness. I cannot remember what it was like except the screen of television was shivering inside the ship.