Day six 福岡

Kiyoshi is an early riser, in bed by nine each night and up by 4 AM. he set our departure time from the hotel, Duke’s hotel by the way, at 8:30 sharp. We took a car tour, he did the driving (no way I was going to). so if we were in the morning to the Kanmon Bridge and surrounding area. it is the bridge between the western most part of Honshu and Kyushu, northern Kyushu. we parked on the 九州 side and took a ferry across to the 本州 side..(I’m done with the inability of the dictation app to correctly, print the names of the four main islands of Japan.) We walked around a bit, and then proceeded to the entrance of a pedestrian tunnel that runs underneath the highway tunnel underneath the bridge. It was about a kilometer. It felt like we were about a kilometer down, under the sea. with us again, reached the.九州 side, and explored Moji Retro, which is a now very popular shopping and restaurants spot. It is also the terminal point of the ferry. After a quick lunch of, for me, vegetable curry rice (very strong curry), we visited the train museum that is famous in the area. One exhibit is “you drive the train“ which Kiyoshi had me try and at which I failed miserably. Of course, having only one operating arm didn’t help much. we left the area for a park that Kiyoshi had been wanting to visit for some time, but had never found the opportunity to go, “Sola Land HIRAODAI “. The park was a six or 7 km drive basically straight up. Again, we walked around a bit and, let’s say, signed ourselves in. Kiyoshi cleverly pointed out that today, we climbed from well under the sea to the top of a mountain. We did an informal udon dinner before he dropped me off at the hotel and returned home. I didn’t feel so bad that his wife did not join us that day because she was working, and then had plans with a friend for a Beatles retro concert. So she was busy too.Read more