Island of Miyajima

A slower start to our day again! We decided to go to Miyajima - a World Heritage Island just off the coast of Hiroshima. To get there we took a local train from Hiroshima Station with the idea of getting off at a station near the ferry which takes you to Miyajima Island. Hundreds of other people had the same idea! We disembarked from the train at the station we thought was the correct one, but everyone else stayed on board! Back on the next train and we eventually joined thousands (and we mean thousands) of tourists going to Miyajima by ferry! This is not our sort of thing we would normally choose to participate in, as many of you would know! Anyway, we played the tourist game and ended up on Mount Misen, after a ropeway carriage & gondola ride to the top of the mountain. The views were spectacular.
We reversed our trip by ferry & train back to Hiroshima and we are now washing clothes & enjoying a wine before going to a local Okonomiyaki restaurant for dinner. The Okonomiyaki in Hiroshima are different from Osaka they say!
Tomorrow we take another Shinkansen from Hiroshima to Kyoto for the next part of our Japanese Adventure!Read more