Aogashima, Tokyo

Aogashima (Japanese青ヶ島 村, -mura ) is a village on the homonymous island in the Japanese prefecture of Tokyo.

Geography

The village is no district ( gun) and assigned to the smallest independent community in Japan. It is located 358 km south of Tokyo.

Traffic

Called from the harbor Aogashima (青ヶ島 港), and Sampo- port (三宝 港), runs every day except Sunday at the Passenger Ship kanju -maru (还 住 丸) the Yaenekō port (八 重 根 渔港) in Hachijo on the homonymous island. Every Saturday runs from this port also the cargo ship Kuroshio- maru (黒 潮 丸) the Sokodo port (底 土 港) on Hachijo -jima on. 1995 Ochiyo Port (大 千代 港) was completed as a supplement, but the access road after a landslide was impassable.

Every day is served by a heliport from the Tōkyō Ai- country shuttle (東京愛らんど シャトル) of Hachijo -jima airport. From this in turn Flights are available to the heliport Mikura -jima on Mikura -jima, for Oshima Airport on Ōshima and Tokyo -Haneda Airport.

Economy

Specialties of the island are Hingya salt (ひんぎゃの 塩, Hingya no shio ), which is made ​​of highly pumped sea water which is vaporized by volcanic heat, and a potato Shōchū called Aochū (青 酎).

Education

Due to the small population there is on the islands is only one school, elementary and middle school Aogashima (青ヶ島 村立 青ヶ島 小中学校, Aogashima sonritsu Aogashima shō - chū Gakko ).

Personalities

  • Yukari Iijima (born 1964 ), Japanese politician and former school superintendent of Aogashima

Sons and daughters of the village

  • Teruhiko Aoi ( born 1948 ), Japanese actor and singer

Comments

Tree List of villages in Japan Mikura-jima Special wards of Tokyo Adachi, Tokyo Arakawa, Tokyo Chiyoda, Tokyo Edogawa, Tokyo Itabashi, Tokyo Katsushika, Tokyo Kita, Tokyo Meguro, Tokyo Nakano, Tokyo Nerima, Tokyo Shibuya, Tokyo Shinagawa, Tokyo Shinjuku, Tokyo Suginami, Tokyo Sumida, Tokyo Toshima, Tokyo Cities of Japan Akiruno, Tokyo Akishima, Tokyo Fussa, Tokyo Hamura, Tokyo Higashikurume, Tokyo Higashimurayama, Tokyo Hino, Tokyo Inagi, Tokyo Kiyose, Tokyo Kodaira, Tokyo Koganei, Tokyo Kokubunji, Tokyo Komae, Tokyo Kunitachi, Tokyo Machida, Tokyo Mitaka, Tokyo Musashino, Tokyo Tachikawa Tama, Tokyo Hinode, Tokyo Mizuho, Tokyo Okutama, Tokyo Ogasawara, Tokyo
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