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around, so, in fact, this is not so difficult as long as your Japanese is good or you can make
yourself understood. Or wave money around. I've found this sometimes helps.
Kakeromajima's Pension “Marine Blue.”
A view from Kakeromajima's far northwestern coast of Saneku Beach (left) and the uninhabited En-
iyabanarejima (right).
ENIYABANAREJIMA
(
江仁屋離島;
Eniya-banaré-jima). You'll find this uninhabited islet, ap-
proximately 2,300 feet (700 meters) northwest of the northwestern-most point of Kakeroma
Island, just beyond Saneku Beach. It's a small island. No matter which way you measure it,
Eniyabanare never gets larger than about 2,300 feet (700 meters) across in any one direction.
It's generally square-shaped with white sandy beaches on three of its four sides. As is the case
with most of the Amami Islands, it's hilly and covered in dense vegetation.
SUKOMOBANAREJIMA
(
須古茂離島;
Sukomo-banaré-jima). About 4 miles (6.4 kilometers)
due south of Eniyabanare, and around 3.5miles (5.6 kilometers) southwest of the village of
Sukomo (
須古茂
; Sukomo), on western Kakeroma, lie the twin uninhabited islets of Suko-
mobanare and Yubanare. Sukomobanare Isle is the larger of the two. It's more or less rectan-
gular in shape, a little over a mile (2 kilometers) long and anywhere from 1,315 to 2,300 feet
(400 to 700 meters) wide.
