【ひがし北海道エクスプレスバス発売開始しました！】
例年ご好評いただいております「ひがし北海道エクスプレスバス」、今季は1/28〜3/5期間、計8路線にて運行。
本日より予約開始いたしました！
今年の冬はぜひひがし北海道へお越しくださいませ♪

Some photos of our trip to Sawara in Chiba Prefecture over the 3 day weekend a couple weeks back.

On the way to Sawara we stopped at Chiba Station and had lunch at a place called Common Café. I order a burger not expecting a lot, but it was the best burger I've had in a long time actually.

We arrived a bit late in Sawara and were kind of tired so we decided to just go to the hotel, shower and relax for a bit and then have dinner.
We had a reservation at a French restaurant called Mougins and it ended up being a really great experience.

After eating dinner we were headed back to the hotel and we heard some hayashi and cheering in the distance and we decided to check out what was happening. We found a dashi parading through the streets and they were stopping at different places to pick up alcohol lol. Apparently they'd been doing it every Sunday, I think since corona started.
It was pretty cool to see though.

The next day we went to check out the Sawara Historical District and after reaching our destination we decided to take a break at a cafe. We ordered a shaved ice and some sort of soda. They were both really delicious, especially the shaved ice. It was some sort of flavor using tea from Kyoto and milk. I forget what it was called exactly though.

We also stopped by the former residence of Inoh Tadataka, the famous Japanese cartographer.
It was quite interesting seeing where he lived.
After visiting his residence, we to the nearby museum and learned about his life and everything he did.

I was pretty blown away by how incredible he actually was. I was a bit surprised that I hadn't learned much about him when I was studying the history of Japan, but after visiting the museum I'm convinced he was truly a genius.

Unfortunately I couldn’t take pictures inside of the museum, but seeing all of the tools that he used to draw maps and learning how they worked was really interesting.
On top of that, the maps he drew were unbelievably accurate.
I think it mentioned somewhere that his maps were used until the 1900's, despite being drawn several hundred years prior.
His cartography was only one of the endeavors he pursued as well. There were also some documents that explained how he helped his town get through the famine, and also documents detailing how he dealt with local lords imposing taxes on his town.

Besides the museum, we also took a boat ride through the canal that ran through the historical district.
The canal was quite nice, and you could see the historical buildings that lined the sides of it while going through it.
We had to lower the cover on the boat for several bridges as the water level was quite high due to the recent rains, but that just made the experience even more memorable.

The tour guide on the boat mentioned how when the canal was used back in the Edo period, it was incredibly busy and boats would have been bumping into each other constantly while passing through.

During the boat ride through the canal I noticed some interesting statues on various lanterns and decided to check them out. They all turned out to be interesting and unique.

We ended our trip by having a late lunch near the historical district.
We had planned to take a train back to Tokyo but missed it by a few minutes.
Fortunately, a bus arrived at the perfect time and so we rode that back to Tokyo. It was much better than the crowded trains.

Overall it was a really good day-trip style excursion and I definitely recommend it!
Managed to find 2 poke lids too!

逗子葉山のひとり旅にて。
夕日が反射した水面がすごい綺麗でした！
上手く撮れて嬉しいです☺️

ここはいつ来ても綺麗なんよ🌟｡:*
男の子の好きな物が全部詰まった場所😆
電車、車、船、飛行機…w
陸海空が全部見れる場所なんだなー😊
綺麗な物見たらまた明日から頑張れる✊

A photo I took a little while back while on a small boat ride through Tokyo. This photo was of Ishikawajima Park, a small riverside park that looks like it'd be a nice place to relax and have some lunch with a friend or date or just get some fresh air. I'd like to come back and visit the area when I have some time and see what else is in the park, as well as take a look at the surrounding buildings and what they might have in the area as far as restaurants and shopping, etc. It's really nice that Tokyo seems to be returning to a relatively normal state and I'm seeing more people out and about and infection numbers don't seem to be on the rise currently. Hopefully this trend continues and I can start going out more and visiting all of the eateries and stuff I've been missing out on over the last year and a half!

Some photos I took during my visit to the Edo-Tokyo Museum. I really enjoyed seeing the recreations of the Edo cityscape and seeing what the city would have looked like back in the day. I like that you can also get a feel for what life was like at that time and you can even see people doing various jobs or holding tools related to them. I enjoyed seeing the boats as well, as it showed how shipping would been carried out at the time, and you also get to see the architecture of the ships, which was really awesome in my honest opinion. I also tried getting a decent photo of Tokugawa Ieyasu but I was really short on time when visiting as the museum was about to close, so I definitely need to go back there again. I wanted to see some of the other exhibits as well, stuff like the Great Kanto Earthquake exhibits, etc. so I have an excuse to visit again lol.

Went to a nearby waterfront park area and saw some yakatabune and other nice views. Got some nice fresh air together and even saw someone catch a fish. It looked like a pretty decent size fish too, but I couldn’t take a photo of it. We realized the planters on the way back were shaped like small boats so I took a photo of one. Thought it was kind of neat

湖にコスモスの花が咲いていて、とても綺麗でした！

海の中、珊瑚礁。沖縄の綺麗な海でシュノーケリングしたときに撮影した写真です。たくさんの熱帯魚と珊瑚礁でどれだけ見ていても飽きないこの景色は沖縄でしか味わえない。コロナがおさまったら1番に行きたい場所。

夏雲の中を水陸両用バスで 五輪開催中の中、ぷかぷかと気持ちよさそうでした（江東区・新豊洲）

鹿児島県民にとっては欠かせない交通機関の桜島フェリー。
たった15分の船旅だが、観光としても楽しめる。
降灰には要注意！

◆東京都千代田区
◆千鳥ヶ淵公園
◆2021.03.26

◆東京都千代田区
◆千鳥ヶ淵公園
◆2021.03.26

◆東京都千代田区
◆千鳥ヶ淵公園
◆2021.03.26

Went to Venus Fort in Odaiba. Was a really cool atmosphere and not very crowded at all. Lots of cool stuff to see and shopping as well. Went to a Hokkaido-style Izakaya afterwards. The zangi was really crispy and everything tasted great.

📍広島県廿日市市 厳島安芸の宮島

⊿ 場所紹介

江戸時代中期には、丹後国（現・京都府北部）の天橋立、陸奥国（現・東北地方東部）の松島と並ぶ、日本三景の一つに挙げられる景勝地として知られました。

現在では人口1800人余りの島に国内外から年間300万人を超える参拝客及び観光客が訪れており、2011年には、トリップアドバイザーが「外国人に人気の日本の観光スポット」トップ20の第1位と発表した。

フェリーからすぐ降りて右手の方に広場があり、厳島神社までの道のりに鹿🦌がのんびりとたたずんでいます。
この時はほぼみんな目が空いてなくて可愛かったです。

⊿周辺情報
宮島マリン
厳島神社
宮島ロープウェイ
町屋通り
などがあります。

🗺アクセス

◯車
大野IC・廿日市ICより約10分、フェリーに乗り換え約10分

◯高速船
広島港より高速艇で約22分
元安桟橋より世界遺産航路で約45分

◯最寄駅・電車
JR宮島口から徒歩5分、フェリーで10分
広島電鉄宮島口から徒歩1分、フェリーで10分

宮島フェリー
大人往復360円
子供往復180円

⊿撮影
iPhone11pro

📍京都府/保津川下り

亀岡から嵐山まで約16kmの船旅です✨紅葉や絶景スポットを眺めながら川を下ります。嵐山にはその他の観光スポットも沢山あり1日ではまわりきれないくらい楽しむことができる場所です。
紅葉の時期が待ち遠しいですね☺️