island in Nagasaki, Japan
Tsushima (対馬) is an island and City in Nagasaki (prefecture).
Tsushima is an island off Kyushu in the middle of the Korean Strait between Japan and South Korea. Although a popular destination for Korean day trippers, it is still relatively unknown to western travelers. There are two main towns on the island: 🌍 Hitakatsu in the north and 🌍 Izuhara in the south.
This island is the setting of the video game Ghost of Tsushima.
Tsushima Local Promotion Association has a Japanese-only guide site with machine translation.
There are ferry connections from Fukuoka, Japan and Busan, South Korea, which is close enough that day trips from Busan are practical.
