In the middle of the interior sea between the islands of Honshu and Shikoku Shôdoshima is, hearth of something more about 30.000 inhabitants and typical tourist destination between the Japanese who can take a ferri from Himeji or Okayama to enjoy the peculiar tourist attractions.
The visitor can be from a version in miniature of the peregrination of 88 temples of Shikoku to an "Olive grove" if, they have read well. In 1908, epoch in which the cold-storage rooms were a science fiction, an olive grove stood firm to use the oil as preservative. These olive trees disembarked proceeding from Europe to produce the oil that later it would use to preserve fish with which one would feed the soldiers who later would fight against Russia.
Historically this island has been a place related to the meal soy sauce takes place, seaweed is cultivated and noodles stretch almost up to the infinite so that nations of the whole country sip his Sômen doing a lot of noise.
The orography of this island is quite eventful, what was making enough the cultivation of the rice difficult (that is like our bread of every day). But the technical difficulties were not a rival for the famine. So with water of the springs that run from the hillsides of the mountains, patience and stone on stone, the industrious ones of course rough highlanders, they constructed a few beautiful patios to cultivate rice.
It is supposed that that of Nakayama is one of the better preserved ricefields of the whole Japan and surely that there are cakes for eating the rice that grows in these hillsides.
But since not only of working the ground the man lives, during his of course scarce free time time, the peasants of the area enjoyed the pleasure of disguising themselves to turn into prostitutes, villains or gentlemen while they were representing works of kabuki. Nowadays the “kabuki of people” is one more attraction of the island, although that I hope that the functions and the tourists should skimp, so that the farmers and his families have time to breathe.
Source: the wikipedia (this isolated area of peace pair the information without contrasatar) and the web of the town hall of Shôdoshima.