🇯🇵 Driving in Japan: Day 4 (part 1) – Iwakuni
Morning. So it’s 7:22 am October 16 and the temperature is 22° here in Hatsukaichi We’re here now at Lawson and Miyajima Island is opposite us. That’s on the other side let’s have breakfast first. Let’s buy… Let’s buy something to eat first. The famous, oh it’s expensive egg sandwich. but the egg sandwich is expensive here and then I won’t have coffee for now.
It’s cold! I want to order hot milk Milk hot milk So that’s it, I’ll order something there first. I ordered hot milk so I wouldn’t sweat. Then this is it. So So let’s order a sandwich oh it’s a 6 hour drive! From here to Hakata Alright so we’re still here at Lawson That. This is opposite of the island Miyaguchi island. My parking is nice… I really can’t perfect the parking here. Hi guys, we’re here at Iwakuni. hi guys we’re here now at Kikko Park. Kikko park in Yokoyama Iwakuni, Yamaguchci it’s nice here, just quiet look at the view. It’s currently 9:25 am And it’s 24 degrees here in Iwakuni. Let’s go to what looks like a castle. 24 degrees but it’s cold. There’s a pond here with no fish.. why are there so many people.. walking around because it’s okay to exercise here. What’s this? It just looks like that. Okay. It’s like what Kikko Park In Iwakuni Castle Let’s go later to what looks like a bridge. It’s far from here what Iwakuni park is. Okay Iwakuni Castle, let’s go later but let’s go to Kikko Park for now. There’s not much to do here. It’s just a park. Ah there’s a cable car! Ah where does that go? How much is it? Huh How much? Are we going by cable car? Okay. How much is that? There’s parking here. Let’s go to CR first this is a museum how much is it? 9:30
9:45 Where is CR? Roundtrip – 560, okay let’s go roundtrip 560 yen Where is CR? Let’s buy some guys.. I’ll go to CR first, this is the CR, I’ll get a ticket, ah, a roundtrip ticket, it’s like 560 yen So let’s see how much 560 cable car cable car 560 yen Well, we bought a ticket guys. So the departure time is 9:45. 9:45. It’s already 9:37. So I bought a ticket for the cable car It should be a roundtrip ticket. I don’t know what it’s for but let’s find out when we get there. There’s Iwakuni Castle. You can drive here. Right. We’re here, guys, without a plan I don’t know if this is a hike? or what. Maybe this is it. we’ll see Seriously, this wasn’t in the plan, I didn’t bring any water. It’s a hike, I don’t know. Let’s stop, guys. Okay, later when we get to the location, wherever we’re going. Guys, the route we’re going to is pretty flat, but it’s still a roundabout route. I didn’t know how far it was. It turns out that this is a hike we’re going to. So this is going to Iwakuni Castle so is he a tour guide? I don’t know. What is this? Is this? what? It’s the same. Where is this going? If it’s the same. Rather than taking a- I don’t know where this will lead. I feel like this is just a shortcut because it’s like a long cut So we took the stairs. Maybe it’s farther away but it’s the same place to go okay So I think that’s it. Oh sorry.. This is Iwakuni Castle Okay. Wow. How much does it cost? 500 yen? Beware of pit vipers. Pit vipers. Maybe the view is there from what… Alright. Look that that’s the bridge. I feel like there’s another side. This is the one from earlier It’s also going up. Maybe if we continue from earlier on. like a trek. This is the path too. There. Oh sorry There. I think so. So this is just that. Those are the rocks or something What is this? Need to go around? Hm. There’s nowhere to go. Unless there’s a viewing deck there. There’s nothing Okay. So they want to do something fun. Okay here. Ah.. maybe I didn’t see.. how to return at what time? The timetable. maybe 15 minutes, so if 45 then the return is… right, it’s the same every 15 minutes alternately so this is the castle. Do we pay for the castle? No, let’s just go here… because that’s 500 yen. Yes we can also go to the Castle. Let’s go here. Right? It’s just spending, right? Char. Oh it it’s beautiful here. Let’s look. Camera phasing is slow. This is the map. Why is it forbidden here? Wow, you can do something.. This is another view.. Hi guys. So it’s already 10 am here in.. Where are we? Iwakuni castle. That’s where Iwakuni castle is. So we’re overlooking the.. ah Just the Iwakuni area. Enjoy the view. This is the one at the castle. Wow. Ah, good morning. So, this is the Iwakuni Castle. I think there is a fee… do we need to go there? What do you think? Just don’t, right? Because it’s expensive. No smoking. Entrance. Exit. Ah 270 yen 270 yen only eh no smoking 270 only. 270 yen Here they say. So that’s it, they have more… So.. let’s climb. Iwakuni Castle Let’s just climb. Let’s go around the downstairs later but it’s okay. So… Uhm.. that lady scared me. So that’s the bridge. Let’s go there later. Ah there’s a mirror. design. Then these are the… Or just take a look straight at the… what’s that called? samurai? This is really beautiful, this is what… bridge.
Maybe that bridge has been around for a long time. Okay. These are the… what’s that called? what’s that called? They call it.. there Here we go… up. Why here what? right, right side right So these are the different kinds of katana.
Katana. I told you maybe yours is here, here here we are. This is the highest floor and of course you have to pay (for the telescope) Ah it’s open. This is an unobstructed view. That’s the bridge.
This is my Day 4 (part 1) of driving in Japan. And I explored Kikko Park and Iwakuni Castle in Yokoyama, Iwakuni, Yamaguchi, Japan.
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