- Kashiko Island
is an
island inAgo Bay . It is located in the city of Shima,Mie Prefecture ,Japan .The island was uninhabited until the 1920's when a railway built by
Shima Electric Railway (now the known as theKintetsu Shima Line ) was constructed there to serve as the endpoint of the line. The building of this railway sparked the creation of a tourism industry which still thrives.Kintetsu runs limited express trains from bothOsaka andNagoya direct to this island and has many business enterprises there.The
surface area of the island is 0.66 km² and thecircumference is 7.3 km.
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