<div><p>There's a new travel destination in Japan for cat lovers. Aoshima island, which is just a mile long and home to only 15 people, has become a tourist hot spot thanks to the dozens of cats who call the island home.</p><p>When local businesses closed down, people moved away from Aoshima in the 2000s. Cats moved into the abandoned buildings and now there are more than 100 roaming the village.</p><div><figure><amp-img src="https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/02/1-8.jpg" srcset="https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/02/1-8_GH_content_550px.jpg 550w" sizes="89vw" title="" alt="" height="9" width="16" layout="responsive"></amp-img></figure></div><p><!-- [invalid-shortcode] --></p><div><figure><amp-img src="https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/02/2-5.jpg" srcset="https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/02/2-5_GH_content_550px.jpg 550w" sizes="89vw" title="" alt="" height="9" width="16" layout="responsive"></amp-img></figure></div><p>The cats are all safe because there are no cars or even bicycles on the island, and the townspeople look after them like their own pets. </p><div><figure><amp-img src="https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/02/3-3.jpg" srcset="https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/02/3-3_GH_content_550px.jpg 550w" sizes="89vw" title="" alt="" height="9" width="16" layout="responsive"></amp-img></figure></div><p><!-- [invalid-shortcode] --></p><p></p><p>If you want to visit the town there's a ferry that makes a trip to the island every day, but unless you want to bunk with some stray cats it will be a short trip.</p><div><figure><amp-img src="https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/02/6-2.jpg" srcset="https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/02/6-2_GH_content_550px.jpg 550w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/02/6-2_GH_content_650px.jpg 650w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/02/6-2_GH_content_750px.jpg 750w" sizes="89vw" title="" alt="" height="9" width="16" layout="responsive"></amp-img></figure></div><p>There's no hotel or restaurants for visitors to use on the island, which is just the way the elderly people who live there like it. </p><div><figure><amp-img src="https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/02/4.png" srcset="https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/02/4_GH_content_550px.png 550w" sizes="89vw" title="" alt="" height="9" width="16" layout="responsive"></amp-img></figure></div><p><!-- [invalid-shortcode] --></p><div><figure><amp-img src="https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/02/5-3.jpg" title="" alt="" height="9" width="16" layout="responsive"></amp-img></figure></div><h3>Share this post if you want to visit this island!</h3></div>