June - 2016

Hiroshima - Shukkei-en

A historical Japanese garden - Shukkei-en. We spent hours here. Walking over small bridges We also fed giant carps and the turtles. I...

It seemed Hiroshima was not destined. We made it happen anyway :) First we missed our (pre-brought) bus, so raced to get the super...

Home to misty mountains old, super happy toilets and the reason for ur trip, the turtles. A few interesting points on our initial wander....

Awa Odori is a hidden delight of Japan! Its the festival dancing tradition, and every August a huge festival is held in Tokushima City...

Tokushima is famed for it's dark blue/ purple dyed garments, a natural indigo dye is made and is world famous is jeans. Famed in japan...

Somewhere there are whirlpools! This is our first attempt to figure out Japanese buses. We basically asked every single driver of every...

So apparently Tokushima is a port city. We have not yet seen the sea, so we did the sensible thing - follow the river! We were racing the...

We really wanted to explore the stunning Koboke and Oboke gorges. Hiking in this heat, without maps, in rural Japan may be a little bit...

So we decided to scale Mt Bizan just next to us. We may have cheated a little. Find it was pretty easy - handy English signs were a nice...

SO we explored the new house to find it FULL of surprises! Very traditional, and we feel pretty luck right now to have found such a gem...