This Island Did Not Exist On Maps. A Woman Visited And You Will Not Believe What She Found.

In 1925, the Imperial Japanese Army launched a highly secretive chemical weapons program in Okunoshima, a small island in the inland sea of Japan. The island was chosen because it was far away from Tokyo and other main areas. This isolation helped ensure sufficient security. The program was so secret that island was removed from local maps.  At the end of World War II, documents regarding the plant were disposed of, as were the poisonous chemicals. What remains today are ruins of forts, gas manufacturing plants and supporting power stations. These buildings serve as a grim reminder of the island’s frightening past.
Despite all of this, there’s something peculiar about this island that has tourists coming every year and leaving overjoyed with ear-to-ear grins…

Is it the remains of the gas manufacturing plants?

Maybe it’s the poison gas museum that was established to inform visitors of the island’s deadly truths

This Adorable Raabbits

Emptied Power Gas Station

If you want to visit Okunoshima, which is also known as Usagi Jima (“Rabbit Island”), you will have to access it by ferry from Tadanoumi and Omishima. The island also has a resort, a six hole golf course, and camping grounds in case you get tired of feeding those adorable rabbits.