After lunch, we continued up the coast and caught a ferry to Miyajima! This was a repeat visit this trip for Hubby and Wifey and a first time ever visit for our friend, M.
We arrived relatively late in the day with plans of taking the cable car to the top of the mountain on site. In the end, we would have arrived at the very very end of the open hours and likely not been able to visit that part of the island, so we chose not to go up. Next trip ... cable-car is on the to-do list! We did happen to be visiting this trip around low tide, allowing us to walk out to the shrine gate and take plenty of pictures!
Leaving the Shrine, we came across the shortest garage ever!
Also on Miyajima, we stumbled onto our first Starbucks of the trip! The Japanese Starbucks did not accept our Gold Card, but did accept our Credit Card in exchange for actual frappuccinos!
We snapped a photo of the worlds largest rice scoop! Around 1800, a Buddhist monk living near Miyajima suggested the local people make and sell rice scoops to tourists visiting the Shrine after having a dream about such a scoop. When Miyajima's Itsukushima Shrine was declared a World Heritage Site, this extra large scoop was created as part of the commemoration.
After a long, exhausting day of fun, we caught the ferry back across to the mainland and our car ride back to Iwakuni!
If Russ wasn't paying attention he'd give himself a concussion
ReplyDeleteCan you imagine parking your car there?
DeleteIt would be one way to get a convertible
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