50 kilometers off the coast of Niigata Prefecture, Japan lies the distant and picturesque Sado Island.

A remote location even for those on the Japanese mainland, gold mines, fresh seafood, temples, festivals, and delicious sake make it a popular tourist destination and one that I myself made the long voyage to in August 2017.

For hundreds of years, Japanese rulers utilized the location as a place of banishment for political adversaries due to its isolated position far away from civilization.

Well off the beaten path, if one visited the Sado History Museum at a certain