Shodoshima is the second-largest island in the Seto Inland Sea — a Mediterranean-feeling place where Japan's first olives were successfully cultivated in 1908. The island also hides Kanka-kei, ranked among the three most beautiful gorges in Japan, accessible by a dramatic ridge road and ropeway. Add the 1950s film set village (Twenty-Four Eyes), centuries-old soy sauce breweries, and quiet coastal roads and you have one of the best one-day ferries-and-roads adventures in western Japan.
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