Dec20 - Kesennuma

I was awake before the 6am alarm. At 6:30am we walked to the combini for breakfast foods and headed back to the hotel to eat. By 7:15am we had checked out and walked the 15mins to the bus station where we got tickets to Kesennuma for the 8:15am bus. The kids enjoyed some wifi and seats while waiting for our bus.

At 8:15am we departed Sendai, scoring the front seat for our 2:20min journey to Kesennuma. We arrived shortly before 11am, and headed into the 7-11 for an early lunch as we were dropped off right outside the store. We then walked the 1.9km to Kesennuma station. Across from the station the tourist office sold tickets to the Kesennuma City Memorial Museum (Ruins of Koyo High School) with discount Taxi. We caught the taxi for the 11km journey (4,000yen) to the memorial arriving at 12.

Tickets here were only 600y and we walked through the ruins of the high school devestated by the tsunami in 2011. It was amazing to see. After 90mins, our taxi had waited for us, so at 1:30pm we caught the taxi (3700) yen back to Kesennuma station at 1:50pm. Ice cream was eaten and luggage collected from the lockers.

At 2:40 the Pokemon with You train arrived and we let Oscar know what we were going on. He was excited and we got on and found our seat in the one car of the train. The other car was a playroom full of pokemon of all sizes. They also gave us a stamp card that we got stamped at most stations we stopped at. It was fun to play in the playroom, and Oscar made a friend with an American girl. At 4:40pm we got off.

Our next destination was Morioka, our choice was $40, 40min Shinkansen or $17 1 and half hour local train. So we decided to get shinkasen tickets for our ride to Morioka. We got tickets for the 17:15pm Shinkasen and went and waited on the platform at 5pm for our train.

We were off the Shinkansen in Morioka just before 6pm. Then we walked the 800m to our hotel, where we had rooms on separate floors, as there was only 1 of that type room on each floor. A search for food lead us to Gusto Cafe where we had ordered by 7:30pm. I had an awesome omurice. On the way home we stopped by a supermarket that had a large array of ice-creams at low cost, so we grabbed dessert.

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