Matsuyama + Hiroshima 04/26
Day 4 – Matsuyama
Next morning was a rainy one but, for a welcome change, that didn’t even matter.
Headed over to see the signature castle of the city, which can be accessed via this cable car station.
The plastic school chair version was out of action, so up we went on big blue.
Even after that there’s a hefty hill to climb to get up to the castle grounds. Accessibility wasn’t a top priority when choosing the location.
There’s separate ticketed entry if you want to go inside, which is recommended both for something to do and the views. Once in, there’s a locker room for shoe removal, so you can get to pad the wooden halls and climb the steep stairs in slippers or socks, which adds to the experience.
Plenty of history stuff.
Can’t beat a good vantage point.
Yes, that’s a ferris wheel. No, no coasters here.
That was fun. Headed back down and took a drive to see some oranges, the famed fruit of the region.
Yes, it’s called a park. No, no coasters here.
Only oranges.
Juiced up, drove all the way back over those bridges again to reach Hiroshima for the evening.
First and only priority upon arrival was their famed pizza vending machine, which as far as I know is a one and only. Used to live near a convenience store, now it’s just under an apartment building.
So, how was the pizza? Pretty good, considering.
Day 5 – Hiroshima
Took a wander through the city the next morning.
Main stuff in the middle includes the museum.
Peace park.
And A-bomb dome. There’s also an overpriced vantage point with a slide in it, inside that building to the right.
We had planned to head to Miyajima for the afternoon, mainly to finish a joke I set up in Florida, but the weather ruined the ferry scheduling.
Looked something like this, I would imagine.
But if you zoom in real close, there it is from the mainland, specifically the car park of a convenience store. Keep it a secret though, or they might put a wall up.
An hour down the road, something that didn’t require a ferry.
The bridges are back with Kintaikyo bridge.
There’s a toll gate at one end, and another cable car up to another castle at the other end, but the latter was closed by this time.
Yup, that’s a bridge alright.