July 30, 2014

Last days in Takamasu

Today is the last day we will stay in Takamasu. 

After waking up and cleaning up Adams house we prepared to head out to take the local train to Fukuoka.
We already reserved our hostel which is an Airbnb apartment.  It worked out to be about $55 per person for 3 nights. 

The train tickets we got is called the Seishun 18 pass.  It works similar to an Eurorail pass except it is a lot cheaper and there is no age or nationality restriction.  Basically for about $130 you get 5 days of unlimited travel from midnight to midnight.  You can split the ticket between many people.  So you can use one ticket between 5 people for a one day of unlimited travel.  The restriction of this ticket is you can only use local trains.  But we have so many days here it is not a big deal. 

So finally we decided to change our itenary because the train to Fukuoka would have taken us 2 days because we left in the afternoon and the trains stop running at midnight.  Frantically we debated our options on the bus to the train station.  Finally we decided to go to Hiroshima today and changed the date of the Airbnb reservation to 3 nights later.  I gotta say it worked out really well. 

We pulled into our hostel around 6pm and found some great news.  The pass we used allowed us to get on a ferry to the island across from the hostel for free. So we jumped on that and ferried ourselves over. 

The island is called Miyajima Island and we didn't know anything about it before we disembarked.  When we disembarked we were awed by the wild deer that were just walking around in the urbanized human areas!  they literally came right up to us and allowed us to pet them and feed them crackers off our hand. 

My friend Roman had some sweet bread and this one deer chased him for 5 minutes trying to get it.  Adam and I were too busy laughing our asses off to offer any real assistance haha. 

We then explored the rest of the island,  breaking into a water shrine and chilling by the big water gate were the highlights.  We took the ferry back after. 






The deer took a piece off of my map!

Peace from Hiroshima. 

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