COVID-19 outbreak is raging all over the world. Japan previously issued a national emergency, several cities had shut down and the government called on people to stay home. Three Tokyo people took this chance to go to an uninhabited island to “self-quarantine” for a month, stay away from hustle and bustle, and also the virus.
Twitter user @ken_osak invited two friends to the desert island to live a self-sufficient life away from the city. Their luggage was: fishing rod, harpoon, knife, saw, shovel, tent, kitchenware, seasonings, charging tools, and a chicken as a partner and emergency food!
Three people and one chicken lived on an uninhabited island in Kyushu. The life there was simple and routine: They set up their tents and caught fish, collected shells when they were hungry; when they are bored, they use all the resources on the island to entertain themselves. Occasionally, accidents occur, such as mobile phones entering the water, tent collapse, they need to overcome it by themselves and during that period, they had learn a lot. Life there was primitive but they were happy and they felt the satisfaction that cannot be found in the city.
After a month, Japan lifts last of virus emergency control on 25 May 2020, and the three also left the desert island on the 25th. Ken was quite reluctant about this and think that this precious experience on the island could not be felt in Tokyo. He said: “After this pandemic ended, I want to tell more people that there is such a great place, and I want people with interest to come here to develop their own adventure.”
