Miyajima part 1 - Coffe, schoolgirls and the 7 samurai!

The trip to Miyajima was a special surprise from Neko-San to the rest of the travelers.

It was planned and arranged without the knowledge of the others, and Neko-San hoped it would be a success.

Miyajima was a part of the Hiroshima-trip, but I won't blog about that part yet, as it was extremely upsetting and hard. Sufficient to say; we needed Miyajima after our trip to Hiroshima ;(

First up! Shinkansen from Kyoto, to Shin-Osaka, and then to Hiroshima! Hikari and Sakura lines!

The Shinkansen is an impressive sight! And very comfortable!

Miyajima is in the bay outside of Hiroshima, about 30 minutes with a cattle train. There is a ferry crossing over, and the JR rail pass is a valid ticket for that too!

On the ferry, the mighty gang of Gaijin attracted a lot of attention from several of the Japanese school classes. Especially the tall Sensei - Oddemann. Some brave girls wanted a picture with sensei and he obliged. We always do!

The girls (and a very select few of the boys) find us all terribly interesting, and they seek some sort of acknowledgement  from us. Usually they just say "Hello" or "Hiiiiiii", although certain brave individuals stop to stammer their way through a sentence or two. The school classes we pass all say hi, and a lot of them want, and get, high fives.

We have taken to dubbing a lot of our encounters by name. There is Coffee-san, propaganda-san, chocolate-san, cookie-san and a lot others. We'll cover some of them later :)

This first part is about a big fan of Sensei, the very first girl on the ferry who dared to make contact.

The girl who first spotted Sensei froze like this for several seconds.

This girl made first contact. Daring to ask for a picture!

And both she and her friends posed for us. The Japanese girls ALWAYS pose like this it seems.

I'll skip to the next day in this blogpost now, because on the beach the day after, we all stood admiring the Torii gate and looked at the Myriad of Schoolchildren. Suddenly up popped a girl, drew her breath, stepped up to Sensei and said "Do... Do you remember me?"

Sensei's smile was priceless! He replied; "Yes from the boat yesterday", and the smile Do-you-remember-me-San gave was the biggest this humble blogger ever saw on a Japanese girl, and believe you me, that is saying A LOT!

Her teacher even spoke to us later, and thanked us for being so kind.Posing for photos is just fun, and we hope that the girls remember the tiny Norwegians. Sensei is probably forever ingrained in Do-you-remember-me-San's memory, and that is a nice thought to bring with us!

Follow us next to find out why Neko-San gets full of himself, and why our waiter was naked with us!

/Kristian