From Hirakata-city, Osaka-prefecture, Japan

From 28 April to 30, we are visiting to shikoku and cyu-goku area. Day one(28 April) we left home about 5:45 AM and through awaji island, passing through matsuyama city and arrived at uwajima city and had lunch at hodumi-tei(below). After lunch, we walked around uwajima city. Uwajima city is located about 100km south from matsuyama city. For me, uwajima city is my first visiting and it is very good atmosphire, sea is near here and town is tiny, not so crowded like matuyama and I liked there very much. This is uwajima castle, one of 12 castle "tensyu-kaku(castle)" is reserved. I visited akashi castle last month and there is no tensyu-kaku. Then we went directly to dogo onsen(hotspring) at matsuyama city. This is dogo-onsen. When I first visited here about 15 years ago, it was not decorated like this. I imagined that it was first day of golden-week(in Japan, this consecutive 9 days nation

I like cherry blossom. I always remember the day when I entered elementary school at 7 years old. Almost every school in Japan has many cherry blossom trees and cerry blossom is deeply connented to the memories of entrance ceremonies in Japan. I happend to read newspaper saying that timing of cherry blossom is a week early than some decades ago so many japanese school starts around 7 April when cherry blossom season is now almost over. Very sad ! Below is a park near our home on 31 March . Zeiss depict it sharply.