Fodor's Expert Review Mitsuke Island

Just south of the village of Suzu is a dramatic offshore rock formation called Mitsuke-jima, a huge wedge of rock topped with lush vegetation, connected to the shore with a pebbly path popular with lovers, who can ring a bell here to wish for everlasting love. Locals, however, also have a very unromantic name for it; “Gunkan-jima” (Battleship Island), because it resembles a warship sailing to attack.