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Japan’s southern islands: A Singaporean couple’s three-month backpacking journey
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The writers' adventures include taking a cargo ferry to Tanegashima from Kagoshima’s Taniyama Port, which has a container bus stop.
PHOTO: LI-ANN TAN AND JON SONG
Li-Ann Tan and Jon Song
KYUSHU – Trundling down a forest path on the back of an old pickup truck surrounded by five scruffy hunting dogs, we could scarcely imagine we were in Japan – hyper-modern country of anime, manga, ramen and robatayaki.
We had been staying with the Nakayamas in the rural suburbs of Kajiki, a small town in the south of Kyushu prefecture. The 75-year-old couple reside in a traditional Japanese house with their pet goats, hunting dogs and a small coop of chickens.
