Kunashir
Kunashir (Russian: Кунаши́р, koo-nah-SHIHR) is the southernmost of the Kuril Islands in Sakhalin Oblast. Known Kunashiri (国後) in Japanese, the island is only 24 km away from Hokkaido, Japan, and is visible on a clear day. Appropriately enough, the Japanese characters mean "after the country", although the original Ainu name actually means "Black Island".
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Understand
Like the other southern Kuril Islands, Kunashir is still claimed by the Japanese.
Get in
SAT Airlines flies from Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk to Yuzhno-Kurilsk four times a week.
A ferry operates from Korsakov on Sakhalin, taking roughly 12 hours.
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