Toyoshima where nobody lives but an artwork

a distant view of Kaze-no-oto in toyoshima

This is the third summer the artwork on the island of toyoshima is open to the public. My friend and I landed on the island today and spent about an hour. There are two boat services a day to go there and to come back from there, respectively. It connects the port of habu in In-no-shima and toyoshima port. Inevitably we took one in the afternoon spent a little over an hour until the boat back to the port of habu. 

At a remote uninhabited island of toyoshima, an artwork is just there. More things will come around not quickly but slowly. It will be the way. Staffers told us, hisako and me, to stay in the art as long as we liked and we freely walked around and took pictures. Which we cannot do in the galleries of naoshima or many other art sites. The sun moves, the light changes. Later we had a free drink in a restaurant wing of villa Kaze-no-oto overlooking the sea. Fantastic. Loved it.

approaches to the artwork

fourteen glass panels

strange glass reflection

the Seto Inland Sea in a distance

world-famous artist did this

Kaze-no-oto, very private cottages and a reception/restaurant wing

restaurant and cafe of villa gaze-no-oto

tiny shrine, almost abandoned but it's still there