Day 6
Today we checked out of our Airbnb and catch a
Shinkansen to Hiroshima. From Hiroshima we will be visiting Miyajima Island, Kojima and Kurashiki which is close by.
It was a wet and cold day and luckily it was a very light shower. Travelling by Shinkansen is really comfortable and convenient, for this journey by road in a car will take between 4 to 5 hours, with the Shinkansen an hour an a half. Frequency of train plenty.
When we arrived in Hiroshima it was still raining and so we decided to go get lunch first since it was already pass lunch time. It was not a problem deciding what to eat because we had pre-planned to have
Hiroshima style Okonomiyaki which is also their "soul food". They have a building that houses 25 okonomiyaki stalls and is called
Okonomimura or Okonomiyaki Village.😊
Once in the building it was quite difficult to make a decision which stall should we have our lunch and so we just picked one without knowing what to expect. We made our order and got our tummy filled.
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| Let our lunch begin! |
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| Our lunch taking shape on the hot table! |
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| Getting crowded |
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| Tools to eat with |
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| Our lunch is served! |
The portion is huge and we shared one which is normally for one. This stall is frequented by
Hiroshima Carp base ball team.
After our meal we decided to do some in the bus tour since it was a cold and wet day. We had the JR pass we rode on all three hop on hop off routes which is called "
Hiroshima Meipu ru-pu", so we covered the whole of Hiroshima in just a couple of hours 😊.
Day 7
Today we make our way to Miyajima island. This is the first time we are taking a ferry boat and visiting an island in Japan.
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| Ferry Terminal |
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| Ferry for both vehicles and people |
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| Miyajima Island ahead! |
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| The Tori Gate |
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| The Island Ferry Terminal |
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| They have deers too! |
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| Watch the deer |
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| Ouch! |
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| A Beer For the Deer? |
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| The Tori Gate |
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| We were there too! 😎 |
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| Low Tide |
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| Lunch ... yummy! 😜 |
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| Steam Oyster with Rice ... Super Yummy! 😋 |
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| Conger Eel with rice ... yum! |
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| Shopping Street |
Since it was still early when we return to Hiroshima, we decided to catch up what we missed yesterday because of the rain. So we catch the loop bus once again to do our touristy bid 😀
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| First Stop Hiroshima Castle |
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| Some Story |
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| For a fee to get in! |
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| The Story |
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| Very Sad. |
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| Nearly survived. |
The Peace Memorial Park is a very depressing place to visit.
Day 8
First stop is Kojima a town with a street where everything is about jeans -
Kojima Jeans Street.
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| Just Outside the Station Jeans to Greet Us. |
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| 😂😁😂 |
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| Denim \Coloured Road |
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| Denim Coloured Ice-Cream |
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| There is jeans hung almost everywhere |
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| Not yummy udon! |
We were there on a weekday and I guess we were the only foreigner. There were a couple of locals wandering around so I guess it is a weekend place and mainly locals.
After a quick lunch we made our way to Kurashiki to explore the
Kurashiki Bikan Historical Quarter which is a short train ride away.
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| Story of the town. |
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| A rickshaw puller |
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| A peddler by the canal. |
After Kurashiki we made our way back to Hiroshima for the night before heading to Fukuoka the next morning.
