Private Jet Exumas to Shima

Exumas to Shima spans roughly 6,865 nautical miles, connecting one of the Bahamas’ most celebrated island chains with the shrine-studded coastline of central Japan. A crossing of this length requires an ultra-long-range aircraft, with the Bombardier Global 7500 or Gulfstream G650ER best suited to the task, both offering sustained high-altitude cruise and cabins engineered to reduce fatigue over an extended, many-hour journey. Given the mileage involved, a technical stop is standard practice and should be anticipated as part of routine flight planning. Departure is from Exuma International Airport, a convenient gateway for travellers concluding time among the Exumas’ famous swimming pigs, sandbars and turquoise cays. Arrival at Chūbu Centrair places guests within Ise-Shima National Park, home to Ago Bay’s cultured pearl industry, established under Kokichi Mikimoto more than a century ago, and to Ise Jingu, the most sacred shrine in Shinto practice, rebuilt every twenty years using construction techniques handed down through generations. Nearby fishing towns such as Kashikojima remain known for ama divers and for serving Ise lobster and abalone at their freshest. The Exumas’ barefoot, castaway character stands in vivid contrast to the more formal, ritual-driven rhythms of Mie Prefecture, making for a genuinely memorable change of scene on either leg of the journey. This route suits leisure travellers extending a Bahamian island-hopping trip into a considered stay in rural Japan, and given the flight’s considerable length, the cabin offers valuable time for rest before arrival on the Kii Peninsula, where the coastal scenery unfolds at an altogether different pace.