Day seven Amanohashidate 天橋立

Up early and easy Peezy out of Hakata station to Kyoto. In Kyoto, I had to switch trains from the comfortable Shinkansen 🚅 to a regular express train. Now consider this, you have found the correct track, you know the exact time of your train’s departure, a train shows up and sits there until two or three minutes until the time of your trains departure. You see that the destination of this train is exactly where you want to go, but somehow it just doesn’t look right. It seems like from a different railroad company. Well, I sure wasn’t gonna miss my train so I jumped a board. Of course, it was some special tourist train that indeed brought me to where I wanted to go, basically, albeit to a station on the wrong side of a small bay from my ryokan here. that meant pulling my roller bag 5 km through a skinny park that divides the bay. Not surprisingly, that worked up a good sweat.😎 But now I have landed, chatted with the proprietor, and had dinner at and excellent sushi and sashimi shop just across the street. Not to mention a great shot of the October full moon taken in front of the restaurant. With that I turned to catching up on the penguins reports…Read more