Day 77: Tamaudun Royal Museum
22 марта 2025 г., Япония ⋅ ☁️ 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.
TheЧитать далее
Day 77: Shuri Castle
22 марта 2025 г., Япония ⋅ ☁️ 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 governingЧитать далее
Day 77: Kokusai-dori
22 марта 2025 г., Япония ⋅ ☁️ 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
24 марта 2025 г., Япония ⋅ ☁️ 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 aЧитать далее
Day 80: 21st Century Forest Beach
25 марта 2025 г., Япония ⋅ ☁️ 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
26 марта 2025 г., Япония ⋅ ☁️ 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
27 марта 2025 г., Япония ⋅ 🌧 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 trainЧитать далее
Day 82: Arriving at Kokura
27 марта 2025 г., Япония ⋅ 🌧 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
28 марта 2025 г., Япония ⋅ 🌬 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 overЧитать далее
Day 83: Shimbaru-Nuyama Mounded Tombs
28 марта 2025 г., Япония ⋅ ☀️ 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, anЧитать далее
Day 83: Fukuoka again!
28 марта 2025 г., Япония ⋅ ☀️ 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 toЧитать далее
Day 84: Yamaguchi
29 марта 2025 г., Япония ⋅ ☁️ 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
29 марта 2025 г., Япония ⋅ ☁️ 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 willЧитать далее
Day 85: Oda station
30 марта 2025 г., Япония ⋅ ☁️ 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
30 марта 2025 г., Япония ⋅ ☁️ 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
30 марта 2025 г., Япония ⋅ ☁️ 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 theЧитать далее
Day 85:Iwami Ginza World Heritage Center
30 марта 2025 г., Япония ⋅ ☁️ 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 wayЧитать далее
Day 85: Former Samurai Residence
30 марта 2025 г., Япония ⋅ ☁️ 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 toЧитать далее
Day 86: Oda Station
31 марта 2025 г., Япония ⋅ ☁️ 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
31 марта 2025 г., Япония ⋅ ☁️ 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 andЧитать далее
Day 86: Gotsucho Station
31 марта 2025 г., Япония ⋅ ⛅ 8 °C
A brief transfer at the Gotsucho Station, waiting for the train to bring us to the city!
Day 86: Welcome to Hiroshima
31 марта 2025 г., Япония ⋅ ⛅ 12 °C
Back to the city! Arrived in Hiroshima! It’s time for a rest!
Day 87: Atomic Bomb Dome
1 апреля 2025 г., Япония ⋅ ☁️ 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 bombЧитать далее
Day 87: Hiroshima Peace Museum
1 апреля 2025 г., Япония ⋅ ☁️ 13 °C
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum - this is the place to learn about what had happened on Aug 6 1945.
Day 88: Miyajimaguchi Station
2 апреля 2025 г., Япония ⋅ ⛅ 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）