Terminal

Getting off the bus, I found myself stand at the end of the road in a small port town, Shirahama. "There live around 100 people in this town," said the bus driver, "and they even have an elementary school." "There is another village westward, and you should take a boat to get there. The village is inhabited by about 50 people." "There used to be another hamlet beyond the village, but it has been abandoned." I wonder if we can tell where Kishiwada City ends and where Kaizuka City starts. The border seems somewhat artificial. Here, at the end of Iriomote-jima Island, we can find borders clearly, not only borders between towns and villages but also the border between the human civilization and the nature. In the port, corals grow on the wharf, and tropical fish gather around them. This is the border.