Minshuku Matsuya
Travel Blogs from Matsue
School visit
Today was our day at Kashima Junior High School. Tayla, Devon and Ethan all turned up with smiles on their faces, so that is always a good sign! kashima JHS is a small middle school with only 160 students. The school, however, is pretty big. It is three stores with a huge gymnasium, library, martial arts area and even a sumo ring! First thing we went to the school assembly and watched the ...
A Day in Matsue
This morning after a quick trip to the post office to stock up on some money we caught the Lakeline bus to the castle. The bus was a very cute old fashioned tram. The castle was incredible. We were so lucky to get there with the cherry blossoms in full bloom and a lovely warm sunny day. We even luckily saw a ninja there and had some photos taken. Saw another two weddings there too, people must love the photo ops with ...
Travel to the other side of the country
Today we moved to Matsue. We had to catch a train to Osaka station, then to shin- Osaka, then find the bullet train. We finally got to ride on the bullet train! Then we caught a train across the country to matsue. This train ride was 2 and a half hours so most people listened to music or slept. The scenery was really beautiful, with lots of mountains and misty rain, forests and ...
Matsue Castle and Cartoons
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The afternoon was spent at the Adachi Museum of Art where classical and modern works are housed. It was a hit for our Road Scholar folks as they really enjoyed seeing art from Japanese perspective. Then as a special treat we went and saw the cartoons in bronze of the monsters of GeGeGe no Kitaro in Sakaimoto. Very ...
Japan, Day 7, Pears and Hotsprings
Today we ate KFC, took a taxi ride with some people who spoke no English, visited an amazing pear museum (and ate yummy pears!! look out for the Japanese pears from August to October!), He ate a pear flavolured ice cream, took a bus ride out to our amazing hotel and tryed our first private onsens at our amazing hotel! One of the onsens (our favorite) was right on the edge of the lake!!
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