Day 17 - Takamasu, Ritsurin-en and Kinashi
A good lie-in today followed by an excellent brunch of pancakes, bacon, an egg and maple syrup! Fuel to face another inferno of a day out there. Something like 34°C and 67% humidity. Phew!
We grabbed lunch from a corner shop and ate it in our room back at the hotel, then I left Diana to go and find a 'bonsai village', at Kinashi, a short way from Takamatsu. Unfortunately, all the proprietors of the businesses were sheltering indoors. I tried hailing them from outside their homes, but to no avail. Finally I saw one old chap and managed to ask him - using Google Translate - whether everywhere was closed. He thought not, but didn't elaborate as to where his neighbours might be.
The reason we're in Takamatsu is to visit the third and last of Japan's famous gardens that Diana and I will visit. Ritsurin Garden is a 2km walk from our hotel which means we probably sweated a litre of fluid each just to get there. Anyway, here are a few of the photos we took...
What a beautiful place! Lots of water and islands. Over 1,400 pine trees, of which, 1,000 pruned by hand!
We grabbed lunch from a corner shop and ate it in our room back at the hotel, then I left Diana to go and find a 'bonsai village', at Kinashi, a short way from Takamatsu. Unfortunately, all the proprietors of the businesses were sheltering indoors. I tried hailing them from outside their homes, but to no avail. Finally I saw one old chap and managed to ask him - using Google Translate - whether everywhere was closed. He thought not, but didn't elaborate as to where his neighbours might be.
Thousands of trees and pots!
Tomorrow it's back to Tokyo for 2 nights and then we fly home.
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