[2024 Tonosho Attraction] Travel Guide for Teshima (Updated Nov)

Teshima

You can take a ferry to access to this one of the most beautiful islands around Kagawa. It is pretty small to explore but feels so good for just relaxing and spending time with great nature. About transportation, unfortunately there are not so many buses however, you can rent a car or even bikes that is enough for exploring all around the island.

A Look Back at the 2019 Setouchi Triennale & Travel Tips

I just bought early bird tickets for 2025 and reminisced about 2019, the last trip before the pandemic. In November, there weren't many tourists, but I met a group of charming architects from Shanghai while island hopping. We explored several spots together. My friends and I leisurely strolled between islands, enjoying the seaside without rushing or obsessing over check-ins, fully immersing ourselves in the fusion of art and nature. Each island in the Seto Inland Sea has its own charm, from olive-producing Shodoshima, cat-filled Cat Island, ghost-themed Oni Island, to Naoshima and Teshima with their famous museums, and many other islands we couldn't visit due to time constraints. The locals were very friendly, and we occasionally saw elderly people gardening. ✨ Some scattered tips ✨ ① Flights: Shanghai to Takamatsu via Spring Airlines ② Accommodation: Consider staying a night on Teshima or Naoshima, or like us, stay in Takamatsu ③ Tickets: You can buy tickets (passport) for the art festival at local convenience stores or download the 'Setouchi' app to purchase them now; early bird tickets are 3800 yen ④ Island hopping: Plan to visit 1-2 islands per day; consider staying overnight on larger islands for comfort ⑤ Other tips ⚡️ Takamatsu is famous for udon, eat to your heart's content! ⚡️ Check ferry schedules in advance to avoid missing them! ⚡️ Check bus schedules on the islands as they are infrequent and easy to miss! ⚡️ We stayed for 5 days, but 7 days would be more comfortable! #Setouchi #SetouchiTriennale #JapanTravel #SetoInlandSeaIslandHopping #Naoshima #Shodoshima #ArtandNature

Don't Miss the 2025 Setouchi Triennale with Flights Starting at Just 799!

The much-anticipated Setouchi Triennale is back for its sixth edition, celebrating the unique charm of the Seto Inland Sea islands. This festival aims to bring joy to visitors and restore the ocean's natural beauty. A total of 638 artists and 725 artworks have been submitted, with confirmed exhibits from renowned figures like architect Tadao Ando, Sou Fujimoto, and artist Yayoi Kusama, among 13 artists/groups. The festival is divided into three seasonal sessions: Spring (April 18-May 25), Summer (August 1-31), and Autumn (October 3-November 9), totaling 107 days. The venues include Naoshima, Teshima, Megijima, Ogijima, Shodoshima, Oshima, Inujima, and the Takamatsu and Uno Port areas. Spring features the Seto Ohashi area, Summer includes Shido-Tsuda and Hiketa areas, and Autumn highlights Honjima, Takamijima, Awashima, Ibukijima, and Utazu areas. Transportation routes are centered around Uno Port in Okayama and Takamatsu Port in Kagawa. Visitors from the east can enter through these ports, while those from the west can use various ports in western Kagawa or Kojima Tourist Port in Okayama. Naoshima has two ports: Miyanoura on the west and Honmura on the east. For a comprehensive experience, including island hopping, plan a trip of 4 to 6 days or more. A new art museum will open in Spring 2025 on a hill near Honmura, Naoshima, designed by Tadao Ando. This three-story museum will feature significant works from Asian artists, including commissioned pieces. Special Offer: Shanghai to Takamatsu 5-day flight tickets are available for 799 per person on October 20/22, October 27/29, and November 3/5/10/12. Six-day tickets are also available for the same price on October 22/24/26, October 29/31, November 2/5/9/12, and November 28/30. Each ticket includes a Ritsurin Garden ticket and a Shodoshima ferry ticket, mailed to you. Flight Information: Spring Airlines 9C8889 departs Shanghai at 08:45 and arrives in Takamatsu at 12:00. Return flight 9C8890 departs Takamatsu at 13:00 and arrives in Shanghai at 14:30. Includes 10KG checked baggage and 7KG carry-on. #SetouchiTriennale #Takamatsu #AffordableFlights #ArtFestival #Japan #Art

The Setouchi Triennale 2025 is finally here!

The Setouchi Triennale, a 100-day adventure of art and sea, has been held every three years since 2010. It aims to revitalize the Seto Inland Sea area through art projects, addressing issues like depopulation and aging. Popular installations during the festival may become permanent fixtures on the islands. Over the years, islands like Naoshima, Teshima, Shodoshima, Ogijima, and Megijima have accumulated a wealth of creative and well-received works. 🎨 Setouchi Triennale 2025 Schedule 🎨 Spring Session: April 18 - May 25 Summer Session: August 1 - August 31 Autumn Session: October 3 - November 9 The official ticket prices for early bird, pre-sale, and regular tickets have been announced (see image 5). While the festival pass is tempting, consider buying tickets on-site as it only costs about 80 RMB more. 📊 Data Visualization: My Hardcore Analysis for a Fun Trip 📊 Let me help you plan your trip with data! 📈 ⚙ Number of Installations: 151 installations are expected in 2025, 53 fewer than in 2022, but this is normal, and more may be added. 👫 Visitor Characteristics: The male-to-female ratio is 2:3. Foreign visitors peaked in 2019 but dropped in 2022. If you missed the 2022 edition, now's your chance. ☀️ Popular Islands: Naoshima, Teshima, and Shodoshima have many installations and facilities. Takamatsu Port is the starting point for island hopping (see image 11). ⏱ Time Planning: Most visitors stay for about three nights. If unsure, plan a four-day, three-night trip, which should be sufficient in most cases (see image 10). 📒 Choosing Between Spring, Summer, and Autumn Sessions: In 2025, 151 installations will be featured, with 122 in spring, 119 in summer, and 145 in autumn. The autumn session has the most installations and venues, attracting more visitors. 🌟 Themed Tours: From Permanent to Advanced, Unlock the Festival's Infinite Possibilities 🌟 I've compiled a list for first-time, repeat visitors, and artist-themed tours: ① First-time Visitors: Don't miss the permanent projects, the essence of past festivals (see image 6). ② Repeat Visitors: Focus on new installations from the last two editions (2019, 2022) (see image 7). ③ Advanced List: An artist-themed tour list (Tadao Ando, Kazuyo Sejima, etc.) from Setouchi to Tokyo (see image 8). #SetouchiTriennale #SetoInlandSeaIslandHopping #TadaoAndo #KazuyoSejima #WorldExhibitions #SetoInlandSea #Shodoshima #Naoshima #Teshima #XiaohongshuArtTour

[Kagawa/Teshima] Cycling trip on the island of nature and art🚲🤍

It takes about 35 minutes by high-speed boat from Takamatsu Port An island where you can enjoy nature and contemporary art🌿 𓂃𓈒𓏸 You can use the town bus or rental bicycles on the island! There are few buses, I reserved a rental bicycle and went around the island🚲 (Electric bicycles are recommended) Because of the warm climate, olives and fruits are cultivated, When I went there, there was an unmanned sales booth for mandarin oranges and lemons🍋 Teshima Art Museum, a tourist spot that represents Teshima, has only one work of art, and photography is prohibited, and talking is a very quiet, sophisticated space𓂃𓈒𓏸 Advance reservations are required to enter⚠︎ Please go and check it out☺️ #Teshima #TeshimaArtMuseum #KagawaTourism #KagawaTrip #DomesticTrip

A good place to take a small fresh film, Seto Inland Sea, Toshima! Seto Inland Sea's favorite island - Toshima! People who have been to say this! Fengdao's terrain is very suitable for taking pictures, if the weather is good, really take a big shot! Unfortunately, when we went, it was cloudy, and the color of the sea was not good! Even so, we feel that Toshima is very good! Same as Naoshima, because we have Japanese friends, we still choose to drive! Due to the closure of the museum, all the works of art are not open to the public, so we transferred Fengdao two times in more than two hours! Fengdao has a lot of beautiful places to take pictures, restaurants on the beach, roads leading to the sea, street signs on the beach, even if the weather is bad, it feels very good! You can also imagine how good it will be when you shoot it on a sunny day! Fengdao must be the island that I will buy back again. Next time I must rent a bicycle and ride slowly! ! We must make up the art museum that we did not visit! Transportation: To Toshima, you can choose to go to the port of Uno, or take a boat in Takamatsu Port! Toshima has a bus to the Toshima Museum of Art, but it is best to rent a bicycle and ride slowly! ! Photo Guide: Toshima is very suitable for taking small fresh photos. You can wear elegant skirts and straw hats as much as possible. The colors can be white or green or blue!

Taking the Takamatsu of Kagawa Prefecture, the four Japanese countries, as the main axis, around the Seto Inland Sea, there are some small islands of literature and art, the most famous ones are Shodoshima, Naoshima, Toshima. This time I gave up Naoshima and came to Toshima. I only saw a lot of beautiful pictures on the Internet in advance, and I feel more like the blue sky and blue sky of Toshima and the beautiful scenery of the beautiful island. Highlights on the island

If you want to travel in a literary way, be sure to come to Seto Inland Sea! The places that are favored by the artists are all works of art. The trash cans that are as small as the museums can be called art. Among the many small islands in the Seto Inland Sea, Naoshima and Toshima are must-see, and both of them have a lot of artistic highlights on the island! Toshima must punch: 1 Toshima Museum: An art gallery with no exhibits, the building itself is a work of art, and it looks like a drop of water embedded on a hillside. There are also a lot of small water droplets on the ground. Standing inside is very ethereal, listening to the wind is very comfortable, is one of my favorite art museums! 2 Tokushima Yokoo: The work of the artist Yokoo Hiroshi is transformed from three Japanese-style old houses. It looks very traditional outside. There is a cave in it. It is a modern art museum worth seeing~ 3 sea restaurant: In addition to the art gallery, this sea view restaurant in Toshima is also better than punching cards! The glass shed for the open-air seating is on the seashore and faces west. You can see the superb sunset seascape in the evening. I ordered the signature olive-tasta rice, the Seto inland sea is rich in olives, the cows are eating olives and growing up, and the Iberian black pigs eating acorn have a fight. PS: This year is the Seto Inland Sea Art Year. The 2019 Seto Inland International Art Festival will open immediately next month. There will be more works of art to watch, and there will be free PASS for the festival. Visit a lot of art galleries on the island~~

Seto Inland Sea Toshima was included in the plan early, and its works are concentrated in three large areas and two small areas. Due to time and traffic considerations, and the most wanted part, I decided to take a boat from the Inushima to the Kagura Port, then take the bus to the Toshima Museum of Art and take a boat from Tangkou Port back to Shodoshima. The area to the south and the location that is a bit biased. First is the house where the German artist Tobias Rehberger transformed the old house and is now a restaurant. The lines of various colors are a bit dazzling. The Toshima Yokoo Museum is so shocking that it makes people's eyesight unaffected. The flat works in the house are also very interesting. Dazhu Shenlang's needle workshop is a little bit away. It was not ready to go, but the three stamps will be sent to the small badge. So the old boat that was placed in the shipyard for 30 years was reversed in the sewing needle factory.

The most anticipated of this trip is the Toshima Museum of Art. Because the hustle and bustle is halfway up the mountain, visitors need to take a boat to the nearest port, then ride a bicycle or take a half-hour bus to come to it. Of course, you can choose to walk when the weather is good. Walking all the way, smelling the atmosphere of the Seto, the twists and turns of the road in front of the eyes, the mood is gradually widening. Walking through the winding roads, I saw the mountains, the sea, the sun, and the small entrance of the building suddenly appeared in front of us. In the process, nature has already completed a fusion with the building. In the single space of white concrete, the only exhibit is the tiny water droplets that flow slowly on the ground, and the slender antennae that flutter with the wind. In this pure space, the wind and water become tangible, and the smell and all the original quiet sounds are magnified. At the moment of standing there, time and space are still. Light, shadow, moisture, and smell are infinitely magnified here, leaving a unique memory. It is also this kind of breath that makes people's thoughts pass from the ancient water city of Venice to the island of art in this Seto. One flower, one world, one leaf, one bodhi. The loneliness and meaning of "Zen" is reflected in this small art museum. Sometimes the earthly cockroaches will occasionally cover our senses, thank you for this wonderful time, let me have a quiet corner in this somewhat noisy world and listen to my inner voice again.