BBCNEWS Breakfast June 4, 2024 06:49:00
To explore one of the thousands of others. my next destination is japan's fourth biggest island, shikoku, where roads become narrow and winding and you are surrounded by dense forests of cedar trees. the views from up here are simply stunning. we're now in the mountains on the western side of the island. the iya valley — in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, these remote highlands were a perfect hideaway — literally. right, i'm now going to relive a bit of ancient japanese history. we're really inland and remote here up in the mountains, and this is where disgraced or defeated warriors wo...