A day in Shizuoka and Shimizu 清水町-静岡県

Well it was time for me to say good bye to my long time friend in Kurashiki and head east towards Shizuoka where another friend was waiting for me.

I thanked many times my friend in Kurashiki, because she let me spent with her and her family New Years Eve and also visit many places that I hadn’t dreamt of before like Miyajima and Hiroshima.

So that day I left quite early because the first train was at 05:30 am and I was there on time as well as the always punctual shinkansen that was going to take me to Okayama and then change for a faster shinkansen to go to Shizuoka.

Kurashiki-eki to Shizuoka-eki

Day 1 - Okayama and Kurashiki - 中国地方: 岡山 倉敷

Arriving in Okayama 岡山

So I finally left Kansai and now I was all the way West in Okayama.
That was just my last stop with the Shinkansen and I have to say the Shinkansen express might be a bit expensive but it is extremely comfortable.
Please make sure you ask someone in the train station where your carriage actually stops and don't be like me who pretended to know where exactly it was going to stop because that's only going to cause you some troubles.

Nara Station Shinkansen

Inside Shinkansen Hikari

In my case, and now I can laugh about it I wasted some 15 minutes walking from one carriage to another. I repeat don't think the train is not going to be packed in case it didn't in the station you go it. I'm saying this,because most likely you'll have to move in the next train station.

I recorded a video on my way to Okayama so you can have an idea of how things look like inside the Shinkansen.

3 Days in Osaka are not enough

Only 4 days had passed since I had landed in Japan and I have to say it had been brilliant! I do not regret about anything. It is a long flight, indeed it is but it worth the time and money. I was surprised because I didn't come across too many foreigners, even though that’s good to me, that’s not good to the country’s tourism economy. Of course, there's a reason behind it - Fukushima..

Sadly today, I'm saying "じゃあ、また！" (see you very soon) to Osaka because today I'm going to go to Kyoto to meet a very good friend after almost 10 years. On other hand, I'm going to jump on the Shinkansen - Hikari (apparently the fastest and newest one すごい！).

But first breakfast and I know many of you will think that I don't want to try anything else apart from this but I just simply love onigiri. I could seriously have onigiri every day of my life. By then I had realised that my favourite onigiri was the one filled with わかめ (one of the many types of seaweed) because it is simply delicious - I'm actually missing it right now - 

Different kind of Onigiri in Osaka