Great start of the south!
We left our huge suitcase in the care of the delivery company Yamato, it will join us in a few days in Mastuyama. So we traveled light for four and a half hours of train to get to Onomichi.
On the train, we wrote postcards …
… Ate sweets …
… Read a bit …
… Made a lightsaber fight …
Ah, in fact, no …
To continue in the major cinematic references, Onomichi is the city of “Ponyo” (always Mr. Miyazaki): the city is by the sea, there are several shipyards, is industrial, but this side perhaps adds to the charm of the city. There is also a lavish walk temples on the hill / mountain, we made in part. The walk was a little shortened because of rain.
During the walk, we met many children returning from school, by small streets that wind on the flank of the hill. We also saw many beautiful houses abandoned and in ruins, making it a pretty amazing contrast between a certain vitality and relative abandon.
And above all, we climbed to our hotel. After hours of train, we said we could well stretch the legs. Except that to go, the small pedestrian path charming and bucolic … consisted of stairs. And the hotel is on the hill / mountain. Yes on it. Almost at the top. This is quite exceptional, since normally the Japanese build in flat areas.
After such an stairs experience, we came up with the funicular. We save us for tomorrow… The Japanese are very practical: the top of the hill / mountain (by cable car, it is a hill; by stairs, it’s a mountain) is planted with cherry trees. In spring, the show must be beautiful, in addition to the view. The Japanese have thus reported to those to whom it would have escaped “Romantic place”. Just in case…
We have here a splendid view of the first bridge we’ll take tomorrow morning.
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