Take a boat from the pier of Takeshiba Pier in Tokyo to Niijima. It takes 2.5 hours by fast ship and 8.5 hours by large ship. Generally speaking, Niijima is a bit remote and the transportation is not convenient.

In other words,

In the hot summer, many people must want to go to the beach.

Sunshine, beach, waves, and all kinds of tourists,

thinking about the scene of vacation at the seaside is wonderful.

About 160 kilometers south of Tokyo, Japan, Shizuoka Prefecture About 36 kilometers southeast of Shimoda City,

There is a picturesque island, and its name is Niijima.

The new island covers an area of ​​about 23.17 square kilometers and has a population of about 2,700 people.

As a component of the Izu Islands, it is administratively affiliated with the New Island Village in Tokyo.

Take a boat to Niijima from the pier of Takeshiba Pier in Tokyo.

It takes 2.5 hours by fast ship and 8.5 hours by large ship.

In general, Niijima is a bit remote and the transportation is not convenient.

Xindao has clean beaches and is surrounded by beautiful sea.

Here you can enjoy sea bathing, sea fishing, diving, etc.

And because the waves in this area are strong and very stable,

it attracts surfers of all levels around the world to come and experience it.

However, it is precisely because of the pain point of inconvenient transportation,

that even in the peak tourist season, there are not many tourists coming to the island.

But in comparison,

In the 1980s and 1990s, the island was overcrowded with tourists.

The owners of many restaurants and B&Bs were extremely busy every day and never tired of it.

Let’s first take a look at a set of comparison pictures.

At the New Island Pier in the 1980s, large ships docked and young tourists flocked in:

But at the New Island Pier in 2017, even the small boats were not full, and tourists were scattered here and there:

1990 Around 2017, New Island was crowded with tourists, and various shops were lined up in rows.

At night, the streets were full of young men and women, and it was very lively:

In 2017, New Island was empty and without customers. Of course, many shops were closed,

At night, the streets are almost deserted, except for a single cat figure:

And on the famous Habushiura coast of Niijima,

around 1980, there were so many tourists that they were like dumplings:

And in 2017, the beach There are almost no people on the beach, as quiet as a private beach:

Why is the beautiful new island so deserted now, but it was so lively twenty or thirty years ago despite its remote location and inconvenient transportation?

Nippon TV's variety show "月曜夜之夜" has reported on this.

tells the story of the rise and fall of New Island over the years.

Even the original tourism card has changed...

, 1975 Around 2000, Xindao used the media to promote tourism.

Prior to this, Xindao's main industry was fishing.

There were surfing enthusiasts here, but after all, the number was not large and it was difficult to become a phenomenon.

In 1975, Japanese magazines such as "anan" successively released special editions on outlying islands.

introduced some picturesque but inaccessible islands, and Niijima was one of them.

With the help of media promotion, Xindao saw business opportunities and began to vigorously develop tourism.

A discotheque that can accommodate 300 people was invested and built on the island, and 200 B&Bs appeared one after another.

Especially during the peak summer tourist season, the island's B&Bs are always full, and many rooms have many people sleeping together.

Even if there are no guest rooms, it is good to have a long bench to sleep on, and feeding mosquitoes is not a big deal.

The influx of tourists made local souvenir shops make a lot of money.

At that time, the monthly turnover of a store could reach 10 million yen.

It is now about 613,000 yuan, and it was even more in those days. Unthinkable.

Opening a specialty store can easily earn hundreds of millions of yen in a few years.

Although the boss and shop assistants are extremely busy, they are busy for the sake of making money, and everyone is happy.

. In the crazy 1980s and 1990s, the small fresh island transformed into a "hookup island"

The beautiful scenery of the island must be a major selling point of the new island,

But if this is the only one, it is definitely not enough. After all, the traffic Inconvenience is a fact of life.

Thanks to the publicity of media magazines, the number of college students taking advantage of the long vacation to travel to new islands has gradually increased.

Relatively speaking, Japanese people are relatively open about sex.

Not only do they not talk about sexual perversion, but some students also compare themselves with who has had sexual experience earlier.

Arriving on an island with beautiful scenery far away from the city, young people began to relax and indulge in sex.

As the number of female tourists increases, so does the number of male tourists who come with the purpose of picking up (dates), chatting (and having sex).

Over time, people began to jokingly call the new island "Hookup Island", or to put it bluntly, "Hookup Island".

As soon as we boarded the ship in Tokyo, some men began to hook up with female tourists. Before the ship even landed, several couples had already formed.

There are not enough rooms on the island during the peak season. It doesn't matter. The beach scenery is beautiful, and many people are simply up to no good...

So there are several urban legends about the new island:

Every morning after the sun rises, there are people on the beach. You will find hundreds of discarded condoms.

If you don’t look carefully, you might think they are jellyfish (throw them down!);

Many people come to Xindao with the intention of getting rid of them.

Some people complain that the sea water of Xindao is xx. The blood is stained red (schematic diagram ↓);

even said that this island is a "place where virginity is discarded."

The reputation of "Hookup Island" has spread from ten to ten, and it has also become an illegal area where young men and women are active.

It is said that in Xindao at that time, it was very easy to strike up conversations with women if you had a boat.

So some men with spermatozoa would not hesitate to take out a loan to buy a boat.

Eat instant noodles during the day to save living expenses, and applaud love at night.

. The media exposed the "Hookup Island", and after the sexual interest dissipated, the new island became deserted again

Although young men and women flocked to the new island to find fun,

local businesses also received real money and silver benefits,

but not Not all tourists are so casual. Many people avoid this island after hearing about it.

It can be said that "the media succeeds and the media fails".

Later, magazines successively exposed the crazy sex life of tourists on the new island.

After the reputation of "Hookup Island" was made public, it caused a very bad impact.

Gradually, merchants on the island discovered that

female high school students who came to the island to travel would tear off the labels on the products after buying souvenirs.

The reason was that they did not want others to see the word "New Island" when they returned.

Later, there were even rumors that if students were found traveling to new islands, they would even be expelled from the school.

In short, traveling to a new island has gone from being fashionable and avant-garde to being looked down upon by others.

Affected by this, the number of tourists on the new island peaked at about 110,000 in 1980.

By 2000, the number of tourists dropped to 20,000.

Visitors have dropped sharply, which has led to the scene like the beginning of the article.

All kinds of shops that were prosperous in the past have closed down, and

there are only a few tourists on the clean and beautiful beaches.

Today's new island has shed the "hookup island" trend and has returned to its position as a small, fresh island.

Tourists who come to the island may come to experience surfing.

There are also various surfing competitions held here every year.

Or school groups may come here to watch the sky at night,

Or simply relax with your friends Physically and mentally, temporarily put aside the pressure of study,

Some people looked at the beautiful scenery of the sunset and couldn't help but shed tears.

For merchants who still insist on opening stores,

although they miss the days of counting money until their hands cramped,

such a surging wave of tourists, after all, mainly come for hookups,

Over time, it will also bring great benefits to the reputation of the island. Damn, the "brilliance" of

cannot be sustained for a long time.

For real tourists, the new island should be as small and fresh as it is now.

Ref:

https://middle-edge.jp/articles/bbs02307

https://pan-pan.co/detail/88122

https://wotopi.jp/archives/14261

https://matome.naver.jp/odai/2138017153040160501

https: //nikkan-spa.jp/709020

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Eat on time r: A good new island has turned into a yp island. It’s so awesome.

Crazy Field: This is a bit like a romantic encounter in a bar street in an ancient town.

Indescribable nickname: The decline of the island is not Japan. The reshaping of people's outlook on life is just a result of the development of the tourism industry, with more and more holy places to visit, and unobtrusive but fun places one after another. New islands have inconvenient transportation. It has a bad reputation...it's just a lack of competitiveness. . . .

Time by the Stream: In addition to freshness, everyone is more willing to abide by the bottom line

Supeireen: In fact, they are just human beings. The island still lives as it should.

eskimocat: I remember that a British documentary reported on the annual beach trip , isn’t it still very popular now?

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