Last sightseeing day…

In this prefecture, anyway. Had a healthy breakfast, then took a streetcartrainbus to Iwakuni.

It’s just a regular town, but has a nice little park/castle area. 

The town itself was established by exiled samurai. They were like “we’ll build our own castle!” The emporer let them finish, then came and tore it down lol. After the war, the US moved in and built a base. Now the castle has been rebuilt of course, and there’s lots to see in the area.

That took most of the day, and it was lovely.

When I got back, it was still light, so I walked around the town here. The village is called Jigozen. The schoolchildren thought I was hilarious, taking pictures of random stuff. 

Here’s todays pictures…

You have to buy a ticket, which was funny, because there’s a perfectly good free bridge to walk across.
This is the most recent incarnation. The last one was washed away in a flood very recently

There’s lots of old guys fishing down there
Don’t forget this was mostly samurai families for hundreds of years

Found a free museum where they displayed relics from the area’s past. also, you could watch a video of them rebuilding the bridge. it was neat
The brown box had a motion detection system and would automatically play some song, it really* sounded Russian?

One of several iris gardens
I felt much safer inside

Yay! A cable car!

Since this basically private residence had NO original artifacts, there was a display of ancient weaponry

A map of all the castles you could visit in Japan

One a three area parks
Some original content, so to speak

Found the favorite daughter!

If you remove the telephone lines, this picture could have been taken 300 years ago

Another park
The family shrine
You cant see it, but some Shinto had tied protection on this great old oak
At the bridge again, back to the bus stop!

This next bit is just some shots from the neighborhood.

I seem to be obsessed with cemeteries
What a great place to be dead for eternity. What a view!
Another neat old pine tree
Unmistakable in any language

There’s one outside every shrine

There’s an oyster farm here

My hostel
Jigozen shrine, one of a dozen within a mile. it’s across the street from the hostel 
Youll notice that the misbehaving child is the one having fun

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