Travelog for: Ele

Now our Marine Liner train is running across the Seto Ohashi Bridge over the Seto Inland Sea. We'll soon arrive at Kurashiki city.
Kurashiki, this area is kept the old city view of Tokugawa Shogunate period. (17th-19th century)
There are many historical houses beside the canal. These were once used as warehouse of cotton.
"Kura" of the city's name means warehouse in Japanese.
Today old warehouses were renovated as cute shops.
Look at this restaurant Fake dishes made of wax are displayed They looks real

Shamijima - it used to be a small island in Seto Inland Sea, but today the island is connected to the main island by land reclamation.
Here we came in sight of the Seto Ohashi Bridge. Yes, we have crossed the bridge already.
The trains run through the lower, the upper is the express motorway.

The lighthouse of glazing "Setoshirube"
This lighthouse is called "Setoshirube". It means the pilot of Seto (inland sea). They say that the only crystal lighthouse in the world. The whole of lighthouse emits red light by internal illumination in the night.

They say that severe heat of this summer is abnormal
It's unbearable to go out from the air-conditioned room in the daytime. In the evening, we finally started 
Mt. Yashima is a flat topped mountain in the east side of Takamatsu city. We drove to the top. It's about 300m high.
Wow!!

Oboke and Koboke The beautiful valleys located upstream of the Yoshino River.

And we are going to Kochi-city, where we can eat fresh and delicious fish. But it's a little bit early for dinner. So we decided to stop at the small zoo on our way.
This summer is terribly hot and humid. Many of animals didn't appear in a daytime. Probably they were hiding in their shady place.
Finally we ate Sushi!
Of course, it was great!

waiting for the boat for the island Inujima

Oh... we were in a wrong place. Our boat is coming to the next pier
Run there!

from the window of the small boat
(forgot to take pictures of our boat...)

Inujima Seirensho Art Museum --- the remains of a copper refinery on the island
Inujima is one of the large-scale art project set in the islands of the Seto Inland Sea.

The night view of Sakura cherry blossoms at Ritsurin Garden
I've already been here before. But it never looks the same. Here step into, it's as if we were in another world