Once host to a poisonous gas research facility, Okunoshima is now an Instagram-friendly tourist destination ...

OKUNOSHIMA, Hiroshima Pref. -- With its turquoise waters, quiet forest paths, palm trees and spectacular views of the mainland and other islands of the Inland Sea, Okunoshima Island has the feel of a ...

“May the world become peaceful,” reads a message tied to a colorful wreath of carefully folded paper cranes. Made by a class of sixth graders from Nara Prefecture, this offering is draped against a ...

Okunoshima, affectionately known as Rabbit Island, is a captivating little spot in Japan where the charm of wild bunnies far outweighs the darker history that once plagued the island. Nestled in the ...

We know Japan has cat islands — too many actually, scattered around the country. There is the famous one called Aoshima in Ehime prefecture. Further up north, there is Tashirojima in Miyagi prefecture ...

Okunoshima is not unique among the some 3,000 islands dotting Japan’s Seto Inland Sea, between Hiroshima prefecture and the island of Shikoku. Neither the biggest nor the smallest, the tiny land mass ...

This island proves there's no such thing as too many adorable bunnies in one place. When a visitor to Japan's Okunoshima island comes armed with carrots, it quickly becomes clear why the place is more ...

Cuteness overload has a number of addresses in Japan. Two tourists sit and feed hundreds of rabbits at Okunoshima Island, also known as "Rabbit Island," on Feb. 24, 2014, in Takehara, Japan.

A tourist destination for the wild rabbits that inhabit it, the atoll not far from Hiroshima was one of Japan's main war laboratories, where Fu-Go, huge balloons equipped with incendiary bombs, were ...