From Hirakata-city, Osaka-prefecture, Japan

This was final day of our short trip. We planed to walk around ushimado erea and go to okayama kourakuen. I didn't know about ushimado but I like this atmosphere. I liked there because it is not comercialized and this town is "normal" old japanese style as I was a child. Setouchi sea is very calm and I like this silence. There is maejima island and also ferry so we took it. It costed 250 yen(about $2) for a round-trip ticket and 5 minutes on board. Then we had lunch at kitchen kaizoku (pirate). And our last destination was okayama kourakuen and okayama-castle. Kourakuen is one of three japanese famous garden. Last year, we went to kanazawa kenroku-en which is also one of three so we went two of three. Kourakuen is very beautiful garden so we loved it. And okayama castle is a building constructed with reinforced concrete but we enjoyed the view around okayama-city at the top of the castle.

Second day, we went to matsuyama castle and walked around matsuyama city. Tramcar were running in front of our hotel. From our hotel to the castle, it took about 5 minutes by walk. There are both cable-car and lift and fee is same so we choose lift. And walked. Matsuyama castle is preserved so we can enjoy the inner space of this castle. Compared with uwajima-castle, it is bigger. I like both castle. Then we went to the central city and ate lunch. This shop is japanese noodle shop "kotori". It is located at narrow streets so it took a little time to find this shop. Its atmosphere is old japanese style and we like this shop. Then go ahead to okayama. We passed through "seto-oohashi" bridge. At first, I planed to go through "shimanami-kaidou"bridges but at that time, one fugitive was around there so we changed to seto-oohashi bridge. We arrivied at pension kuroshio-maru at ushimado,