Sunday, 5 October 2014

Miyajima part 7 - The dash for the Torii and the ride home

Dashing down again (2 minutes if sprint a little), and onto the beach at about  12:45, we realized that the tide was on the way back in. Walking with dry feet through the Torii was no longer possible, but we did get to go out and touch it! 

BARELY!

A bare piece of sand! Let's run!

Made it!

Made it! ALMOST dry!

Not much room now!

View from the Torii to the shrine

We made it, although I have no pictures of Kawaii-San - He had to jump both ways, but made it too!

After the Torii, we went to eat. But the only had traditional tables for seiza, but we're getting used to that now!

We weren't as brave 30 minutes later...

Luckily they had locally brewed beer that helped!

Coffee-San saw us, and came running to say goodbye!

A view from the ferry.
I must again recommend the JR-pass. Available only to foreigners, it saved us quite a bit of money on the trains, Shinkanzen and this ferry! We got ours through our travel agent, Japanspesialisten.

On the way back to the trainstation we came across a small pottery factory that sold hand made sake sets. It was fun seeing the production, and that made the price tag more acceptable :)

Making tea mugs

Waiting for the Shinkanzen, eating Ice cream!

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