Kami-shima
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is an inhabited island at the mouth of Ise Bay off the east coast of central Honshu, Japan. It is administered by the city of Toba in Mie Prefecture.
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The entry is geolocated on the map in isle, across 2 mapped points.
It sits within the topics Islands of Mie Prefecture and Prison islands.
Its subject is documented across 9 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Islands.name
- Kami-shima
- Islands.image_name
- Ckk-83-1 c22 4-5 kamishima.jpg
- Islands.image_caption
- National Land Image Information (Color Aerial Photographs), Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism.
- Islands.location
- Mie Prefecture
- Islands.area_km2
- 0.75
- Islands.highest_mount
- Tōmyōyama
- Islands.elevation_m
- 171
- Islands.coastline_m
- 3900
- Islands.country
- Japan
- Islands.population
- 534
- Islands.population_as_of
- 2000
- Islands.density_km2
- 703
- Islands.ethnic_groups
- Japanese
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is an inhabited island at the mouth of Ise Bay off the east coast of central Honshu, Japan. It is administered by the city of Toba in Mie Prefecture.
The name for Kami-shima has alternatively been written as or . The current name Kami-shima, or “God island,” refers to a Shinto shrine on the island called Yatsushiro shrine. Archaeologists have found hundreds of ceremonial artifacts on the island, ranging from ancient mirrors to ceramics dating from the Kofun period through the Muromachi period. During the Edo period, the island was used as a prison by Toba Domain, with the sobriquet “Shima-Hachijo” in reference to the prison island of Hachijō-jima used by the Tokugawa shogunate.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kami-shima” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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2 mapped locations