The Seto Inland Sea is Japan’s Mediterranean — a sheltered, island-dotted body of water between Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu that has shaped Japanese culture, economy, and aesthetics for millennia. The fishing villages, salt-farming communities, and citrus-cultivating slopes that line its shores and islands represent a rural Japan of extraordinary visual character. And since the early
Western Honshu’s Chugoku region occupies a unique position in the Japan travel landscape — home to one of Japan’s most significant historic sites, one of its most iconic island experiences, and a stretch of rural coastline along the Sea of Japan that remains among the country’s most genuinely undiscovered travel corridors. Hiroshima’s Peace Memorial is