Day 39, Inuyama Castle, Nagoya

Our first Japanese bullet train - from Tokyo to Nagoya. We visited Inuyama Castle, the oldest surviving medieval fortress in Japan, dating to the 16th century. It was cloudy and misty most of the day but that didn’t really dampen our plans. 🏯 We have been with our tour group since Wednesday. There are four couples, all about our age, from Minnesota, Dayton, and the UK, plus our guides, a US couple who have spent much of their adult years in Japan. Very nice group, mostly retired, including a former midwife, philosophy professor, golf pro, and a competitive waterskier on the senior circuit (from MN so he does a lot of his skiing in a wetsuit🥶). For Mark and me it’s a perfect way to visit Japan - visiting cool places using local transport with someone else handling all of the logistics. 😎😎😎 Plus lots of walking, which we also like. We have already ridden several kinds of trains (were on five different ones today) which is especially fun for me since my dad was a railroad engineer and I grew up riding trains all over the South. Mark had dinner tonight at Midori, a famous sushi restaurant. (I took a pass.)Read more