鳥とりも通かよわない

expression, i-adjective

remote; out-of-the-way; isolated

Idiomatic expression literally meaning 'even birds don't come and go'; used to describe a place that is extremely remote, secluded, or hard to reach. Often appears in literary or descriptive contexts.

See also: 鳥も通わぬ (とりもかよわぬ)

• その山やま奥おくの村むらは鳥とりも通かよわない場ば所しょだった。

  That mountain village was a place so remote that even birds didn't pass through.

• 鳥とりも通かよわないような秘ひ境きょうに一人ひとりで住すんでいる。

  He lives alone in an unexplored region so isolated that not even birds go there.