{"id":57688,"date":"2020-08-15T20:00:52","date_gmt":"2020-08-15T11:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voyapon.com\/?p=57688"},"modified":"2020-09-06T22:48:47","modified_gmt":"2020-09-06T13:48:47","slug":"rabbit-island-hiroshima","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voyapon.com\/rabbit-island-hiroshima\/","title":{"rendered":"Rabbit Island: The Cutest Day Trip from Hiroshima on a Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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If you’ve heard about Okunoshima<\/strong>, more widely known by its popular name of Rabbit Island<\/strong> (official website<\/a>), you can thank YouTube. Before a 2014 YouTube video of a woman being “attacked” by a horde of friendly bunnies went viral, most visitors to Okunoshima were either elderly Japanese coming to enjoy the local onsen<\/em> hot springs or school children on a field trip. Few foreign visitors would have ever been interested in coming to the island for reasons other than the hundreds of adorable rabbits who live here, mainly because the real history of the island is extremely dark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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