WE LIKE THIS PLACE…
But first, the Hotel in which we are staying is an older
Hotel but has big rooms and a usable bathroom. The Hotel in Toyama had no room
to even leave your toothbrush and toothpaste in let alone a bathroom bag kit.
Anyway, after our usual Muesli and banana breakfast and of
course the usual cuppa, we walked down to the oldest castle in Japan and
purchased our entry tickets and we were early which was very handy. The Castle
Keep has extremely steep and short stairs and so Jennifer did the walk alone
and entered the building within a minute or so of us arriving. Two minutes
later hundreds of Japanese kids and tour groups descended on the place and there
was a queue of about hundred yards long which has developed in minutes. All the Cherry trees are out at the moment and it makes this little town look really nice. We have been lucky with the Cherry trees as we were just in time for Tokyo, on time for all the other places we have visited so how about that for luck.
We then walked down to the middle of town and on to the train
station where we discovered you get a bus ticket for the day on three routes
around town and so we did some of the routes. For lunch we visited the same
place as we went yesterday, but somehow the service was rubbish and they messed
up our and our neighbour’s food orders, most unusual.
We did a little more walking and then went back to the Hotel
around 16.00 to do some planning about our route tomorrow and have a little
rest before heading out in the dark for a photo shoot. In the Hotel there is a
little café where tried their apple cake and a coffee before venturing out back
to the castle and around the town to take some night photos. Some came out well
and others did not, but that’s the name of the game.
Then back to the Hotel around 20.15 to load the photos and do
this Blog. Tomorrow we leave en-route to Nikko and will stay overnight in a
place called Maebashi where the only claim to fame is seen to be a large Costco
store where we shall make a few purchases. We plan to stay on the regular roads
and ignore the expressways as its much more interesting.
