- Location: Ōkunoshima / Rabbit Island Day 2
- Walk: Ōkunoshima Island
- Weather: 40-55°/ cloudy with wind 5-10 mph
On this trip, I wanted to include the Japanese’s Japan. Places where there isn’t English subtext and not the post card version of Japan. As Ōkunoshima Island is only 2.5 miles in circumference, it provides lots of time with the Japanese as we interact with 900 rabbits. With rabbits, who needs English subtext?
Linda Scandore 
Reminds me Linda of touring Kyushu with a Japanese colleague and my oldest daughter Sarah, at the time a teenager. Shinjiro took us off the beaten track and I had the same special enjoyment as you!
Sincerely,
Bill
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I can see you and Sarah sharing that experience. How fortunate to have the company of your daughter with you and Shinjiro. Is he the fellow who met us at Greenberry’s? ~linda
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Amazing. Do they all run free throughout the island? And who/ how do they clean up those cute little bunny “droppings”?! 🙂
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Yeap, all 900 run free and Mother Nature does the cleaning. I did see someone early this morning carrying a large container of water. Perhaps it is she who refills the metal water bowls strategically places about the island. I keep seeing the rabbits cleaning each other. Apparently they are very social and request by lowering their head to be cleaned. They are also intelligent and can learn to respond to their names. None the less, I have no intention of getting a rabbit. 🐰~linda
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