:Kami-shima

{{Short description|Island off the east coast of central Honshu, Japan}}

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{{Infobox islands

|name = Kami-shima

|image_name = Ckk-83-1 c22 4-5 kamishima.jpg

|image_caption = National Land Image Information (Color Aerial Photographs), Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism.

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|native_name = {{nihongo||神島|Kami-shima}}

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|location = Mie Prefecture

|coordinates={{coord|34|32|N|136|59|E|type:isle}}

|archipelago =

|total_islands =

|major_islands =

|area_km2 = 0.75

|highest_mount = Tōmyōyama

|elevation_m = 171

|coastline_m = 3900

|country = Japan

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|population =　534

|population_as_of = 2000

|density_km2 = 703

|ethnic_groups = Japanese

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{{nihongo|Kami-shima|{{linktext|神島}}| }} is an inhabited island at the mouth of Ise Bay off the east coast of central Honshu, Japan. It is administered by the city of Toba in Mie Prefecture.

The name for Kami-shima has alternatively been written as {{nihongo|Kameshima|{{linktext|亀|島}}|}} or {{nihongo|Kajima|{{linktext|歌|島}}|}}. The current name Kami-shima, or “God island,” refers to a Shinto shrine on the island called Yatsushiro shrine. Archaeologists have found hundreds of ceremonial artifacts on the island, ranging from ancient mirrors to ceramics dating from the Kofun period through the Muromachi period. During the Edo period, the island was used as a prison by Toba Domain, with the sobriquet “Shima-Hachijo” in reference to the prison island of Hachijō-jima used by the Tokugawa shogunate.

The economy of the island is based on commercial fishing in its adjacent waters, and on tourism. Commercial fishing is the dominant industry.

The island is the setting for the 1954 novel by Yukio Mishima The Sound of Waves, and has been used several times as a filming location for movies.

{{commons category|Kami Island (Mie)}}

File:2016-08-05 Kami Island (Mie) 神島の民家・路地 DSCF6656.jpg|Climbing stairs on Kami Island

File:2016-08-05 Kami-shima Island,Benten-misaki from Kanteki-shô Ruins 神島監的哨跡から見る弁天岬 DSCF6398.jpg|Benten-misaki

File:Kamishima Lighthouse wide.JPG|Kamishima Lighthouse

File:2016-08-05 Yashiro-Shrine in Kami Island (Mie) 神島民家・路地、八代神社 DSCF6188.jpg|Yatsushiro shrine