Tuesday 8th September Possibly my favourite place so far. Took about 30mins by train to the ferry port, my first time so far on this trip to travel by ferry, was quite excited, like a little child te he. The ferry was ready to go which was great, no need to wait. Thought it might take a little while, so found a nice spot by the window and shared the rest of my dinner from last night for brunch, was perfect amount for the day ahead. When finished eating the ferr...

Continue Tuesday 8th September We caught the ferry back from Miyaijima to Hiroshima and picked up our bags from the hostel, straight to the station ready to head out to Beppu. We bought some more Momiji Manju cakes for our trip, they are big in Hiroshima and the custard and chocolate filled ones are the best, delicious. They are everywhere and in the shape of stars very nice. Took a lot longer on the trains than we expected, managed to run over some bits from J...

Continue Monday 7th September After leaving Himeji Castle we went to the station to get the train to Hiroshima, a bit of a wait, so hung around. Both jumped out of our skins when a bullet train, which clearly wasn't stopping at this station went wizzing by. Was amazed by its speed, so as we had a few minutes free, we decided to get our videos ready to film the next one. Seemed to be waiting a while and unfortunately it came and went too quick and we wasn't quite...

Monday 7th September Caught direct train from Kyoto to Himeji where we chose to stop off and see the Himeji Castle, supposed to be the best Castle in Japan. Trekked for about 30mins with our back packs from the station in the blazing sun to get there, so when the lady at the entrance gate offered to take them off our hands whilst we looked around, for a small fee, we happily handed them over te he. Best castle i've ever seen, very pretty to look at on the outsi...

Friday 4th September Well our alarm went off about 7am, but we just could not be bothered to get up, so off went the alarm and luckily by chance the German guys in our room woke us up when they were getting ready to leave, phew, still early enough about 9ish te he. We checked the lake to see if there was any luck of seeing the Mountain but NO GO, so left just that little bit disappointed, but hay ho, there's alwasy another day, another time. More Jam on toast an...