This is the reason of not being polite to drive your chopsticks into the rice bowl. It reminds people the incense lighted for the dead people.
Look at the size of these grilled oysters in Mijayima.
Now, imagine the exquisite taste. Now, imagine the price of each unit. Half of it. Half again… How much do you say?
Last stop in the trip was in Kobe. It was improvised the last morning. So, we changed our tickets to be able to stop in Kobe, and we spent a couple of hours in this city, famous for another sad event. A big earthquake in 1999. 6000 people died, and half of the city was destroyed, but now it’s almost impossible to see what it was destroyed.
Here, we just took a sightseeing bus to see the city, but we spent most of the time in a restaurant enjoying the famous Kobe beef.
Incredibly good. No further comments.
After Hiroshima, we also went to Mijayima, which is an island very close to Hiroshima, which combines temples and nature.
It has the famous torii, which sometimes is in the water…
… and others in the mud.
The island was considered sacred, and normal people couldn’t go to the temple walking, but only on boat. Therefore, they had to go through this gate in the water, so they didn’t step outside the temple.
Apart from that, this island has a very nice mountain with lots of nature that you can either climb, or take a ropeway.
Guess what we chose, in such a hot and warm day…
Now, I can say I have climbed more mountains in Japan than in Spain. ^_^
This is in the middle of the city. Exactly in the middle. No need to comment that there was no noise, apart from some insects on the trees…