Day 77: Tamaudun Royal Museum
2025年3月22日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 20 °C
We spent our day in the must-go area in Okinawa, Naha city. Our focus is visit the Shuri Castle Site. But on the way, we passed through this Mausoleum. So we decided to drop by and take a look.
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Day 77: Shuri Castle
2025年3月22日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 21 °C
Shuri Castle, probably the must-visit place in Naha Okinawa. It was the royal residence for the king and his family, and at the same time, it functioned as the Shuri Royal Government, a governingもっと詳しく
Day 77: Kokusai-dori
2025年3月22日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 20 °C
It’s the most famous and touristy street in town. It is full of souvenir shops and such. A good place for shopping.
Day 79: Kunigami Forest Park
2025年3月24日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 20 °C
We planned for an adventure today around Nago, trying to hike at the Kunigami Forest Park. We did not have much agenda and just walked the hiking route. Once we reached the top, we decided to take aもっと詳しく
Day 80: 21st Century Forest Beach
2025年3月25日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 24 °C
A short walk around The city of Nago today. We went to a beach. Nothing fancy, but we loved a simple day like this.
Day 81: Overnight ferry leaving Nago
2025年3月26日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 23 °C
It’s time to say Goodbye to Nago, Okinawa. Today, we took the overnight ferry back to Kagoshima. It wrapped up our island trip in the South and to the north we go.
Day 82: Arriving at Kagoshima again
2025年3月27日, 日本 ⋅ 🌧 19 °C
After staying on the ferry for 1 night, we arrived back to Kagoshima. Weather was not very stable. We got a bit of rain while walking to the bus station for our bus ride back to Fukuoka, then a trainもっと詳しく
Day 82: Arriving at Kokura
2025年3月27日, 日本 ⋅ 🌧 22 °C
We were exhausted after a day of long journey. But now we are back to a little bit north at Kitakyushu, in a city called Kokura.
Day 83: Munakata Taisha
2025年3月28日, 日本 ⋅ 🌬 12 °C
We made a short trip to the town called Togo nearby Kakuro to visit the Munakata Taisha. It is a collection of three Shinto shrines. It is the head if the approximately 6000 Munakata shrines all overもっと詳しく
Day 83: Shimbaru-Nuyama Mounded Tombs
2025年3月28日, 日本 ⋅ ☀️ 12 °C
Nearby Munakata Shrine, there’s an area with mounded tombs. So we decided to check it out. The area is called the Shimbaru-Nuyama Mounded Tomb Group. It comprises the tombs of the Munakata clan, anもっと詳しく
Day 83: Fukuoka again!
2025年3月28日, 日本 ⋅ ☀️ 12 °C
Yes, we were in Fukuoka again. As we calculate the wrong days for our JR pass, we ended up having the JR pass activated earlier. So, to fully utilize the pass, we just took the high speed train toもっと詳しく
Day 84: Yamaguchi
2025年3月29日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 12 °C
On our way to a small town called Odashi. Before that we had to take the bullet train and transfer to the local trains for connection in between.
Day 84: Odashi
2025年3月29日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 10 °C
It’s such a small town. When we walked from the train station, we could barely see anybody. The reason why we came to here was for the famous Iwami Ginzan Silver Mine World Heritage Site. We willもっと詳しく
Day 85: Oda station
2025年3月30日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 5 °C
We were back nice and early to the Oda Station to catch a train to the nearby station to connect a local bus to our final destination.
Day 85: Nima Station
2025年3月30日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 5 °C
The train took us to this small station for a local bus to Iwami Ginzan Silver Mine World Heritage site area.
Day 85: Iwami Ginzan Silver Mine
2025年3月30日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 5 °C
The area around the Iwami Ginzan Silver Mine was very pleasant to walk around. It comprises a few former samurai’s residences and the Okubo Mabu Mine Shaft. We spent a few hours walking around theもっと詳しく
Day 85:Iwami Ginza World Heritage Center
2025年3月30日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 6 °C
We finally arrived at the World Heritage Center. Originally we planned to go in and check out the underground silver mine, However, the price was way too expensive. We thought that it’s wayもっと詳しく
Day 85: Former Samurai Residence
2025年3月30日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 5 °C
We decided to use the saved money from going to the silver mine to visit 2 former samurai residence. The Kawashima Family Residence and Kumagai House were the ancient Japanese house. It was nice toもっと詳しく
Day 86: Oda Station
2025年3月31日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 2 °C
The next day, we were back to the Oda Station. It’s time to say GoodBye to Odashi. We were going to make a brief stop to a hot spring district nearby.
Day 86: Yunotsu
2025年3月31日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 4 °C
Welcome to Yunotsu! The reason why we made a stop here is for the Hot Spring (onsen). Since Chris hasn’t tried to be in an Onsen, this is a perfect place for him to try the public onsen. Men andもっと詳しく
Day 86: Gotsucho Station
2025年3月31日, 日本 ⋅ ⛅ 8 °C
A brief transfer at the Gotsucho Station, waiting for the train to bring us to the city!
Day 86: Welcome to Hiroshima
2025年3月31日, 日本 ⋅ ⛅ 12 °C
Back to the city! Arrived in Hiroshima! It’s time for a rest!
Day 87: Atomic Bomb Dome
2025年4月1日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 13 °C
The building now known as the A-bomb Dome was designed by Czech architect Jan Letzel.
At 8:15 a.m., August 6, 1945, an American B29 bomber carried out the world's first atomic bombing. The bombもっと詳しく
Day 87: Hiroshima Peace Museum
2025年4月1日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 13 °C
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum - this is the place to learn about what had happened on Aug 6 1945.
Day 88: Miyajimaguchi Station
2025年4月2日, 日本 ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C
From Hiroshima, we took the train to get to the Miyajimaguchi Station（宮島口站）. Then, we took a ferry to the Itsukushima (嚴島）