From Hirakata-city, Osaka-prefecture, Japan

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,

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