And after Kyoto the Japanese mini-tour continued through the Chugoku region. First stop in Okayama, a city known to have one of the best three gardens in Japan, Korakuen...and well I have to say that although nice I was a bit disappointed, I thought it would be something more spectacular. Previously I had already seen the garden of Kanazawa (one of the other three) and to my opinion is much better. In any case the visit was interesting, we had a great sunny day and as it was the official Children's day there were plenty of them everywhere.
Korakuen |
Sessió fotogràfica acabats de casar / Photo shooting after wedding |
Picnic familiar sota els arbres / Family picnic on the trees' shadow |
La segona parada va ser a Miyajima, una petita illa situada al davant d'Hiroshima i que té una de les imatges més conegudes del Japó, la porta Tori que flota sobre l'aigua. Considerada una de les tres imatges més boniques del Japó (nota: al Japó està ple d'aquestes classificacions de les 3 coses més...), o sigui que era una cosa obligatòria a visitar i que tenia ben marcat des de feia temps...ara quan vàrem arribar allà ens vem endur un "xasco" de dimensions considerables ja que la porta està temporalment tapada per obres de rehabilitació després de que un tifó passés per l'illa fa uns mesos. Ja us ho podeu imaginar doncs...ens vàrem quedar sense la famosa imatge però bé la visita va pagar la pena, l'illa és molt xula, sobretot si t'hi quedes una nit perquè al vespre quan marxa pràcticament tothom hi ha més cérvols que persones, en un ambient molt tranquil i relaxat. A part, l'illa en si es considera sagrada hi ha un gran santuari sintoísta, Itsukushima que també té unes imatges molt xules. Per tant sigui de nit, de dia, amb marea alta o marea baixa, un lloc molt recomanable a visitar!
The second stop was in Miyajima, a little island just in front of Hiroshima which has one of the most well-known images from Japan, the Torii gate floating in the sea. This torii is considered one of the three best views of Japan (note: as you may have noticed in Japan there are plenty of the three best things...), so it was a mandatory stopover in the journey and I had well underlined in my notebook since long time ago...but when we got there we had the biggest (bad)surprises of our trip, the torii was all covered up, apparently they are doing some work to fix some damage caused by a typhoon some weeks ago...so you can imagine our disappointment to not being able to capture the image we were looking for, but either ways the visit was worthwhile, the island is gorgeous, especially at night when almost everyone leaves and there more deers than human beings around :), so quiet and peaceful! Besides this, the island itself is considered a holly place and there is a big shintoist shrine, Itsukushima which gives lovely views. So, either by night, day, high or low tide, Miyajima is definitely a place to visit.
Aquesta és la imatge que buscàvem / That was supposed to be what we were looking for. By Kirainet.com |
After the visit to the island we gave ourself a gastronomic treat with the famous Okonomiyaki Hiroshima's style that are made with noodles in the cake. After this, my last stop of the mini tour was to visit a bit of HIroshima, an industrial city that unfortunately is known by the fateful events of 1945 and not much else for tourism. There we visited the memorial park of peace with the cenotaph in memorial of the victims and obviously we visited the Peace memorial museum, a museum that only for what it represents it already deserves all my respect and certainly it has quite upsetting images but at the same time I found the whole exposition was a little bit out-dated, it looks like it already has some years and I would say that with the current tech resources they could do a better job. Also, I lacked a bit more of discussion and open points for debate, but well I understand is not an easy subject to deal with...
Okonomiyaki Hiroshima's style! |
Hola Gerard! Aquesta la visita la vaig fer jo quan vaig fer les vacances per Japó. Myagima em va encantar... I vam pujar fins al cim caminant. Quina calor que feia =) I la porta, tinc moltes fotos espectaculars... Però bé, tu en tindràs unes que no tindrà gairebé ningü: la porta torii en obres!
ResponEliminaEls okonomiyakis excel·lents amb els espaguettis! Com en menjaria un ara!