Got up early to catch a ferry to Mie but we missed it by 2 minutes. We had a hard time getting out the door because we couldn't find Mark's jacket. Missing the ferry ended up working out because we stopped at a beach called Koijigahama. The waves were huge, the hugest I've ever seen, and we hiked in a little path to a lighthouse. At a market by the beach, there was the hugest oyster I've ever seen and some cooked clams and pineapple on a stick. Then we are shaved ice with condensed milk and strawberry jam. By then it was time to catch the ferry boat. It was a fantastic little side tour.
This stone monument is a war memorial.
We ate raw oysters and cooked clams. The clams were better. :)
Juliet said it was cold and windy outside. I stayed inside! :)
The ferry had a carpeted area that required one to remove their shoes before we could sit or lie down. I rested and felt the boat sway.
After 50 minutes on the ferry, we disembarked and found a kaiten sushi place for lunch. A conveyor belt brings little plates of sushi around. There was also a touch screen menu and we could order custom dishes, that were then brought on a separate belt. We had a great time ordering items and have them brought to our table by the belt. Coolest.sushi.ever. Mark wasn't impressed, he had a hamburger.
After lunch we drove to Ise, which had an old Japanese village and Shinto temple. There were vendors selling Japanese snacks and trinkets. We purchased a Christmas ornament to commemorate our family trip to Japan.
The architecture is very similar to America except for the roof tiles. They were uniquely Japanese.
We drove to Kyoto and checked into an AirBNB. It was this little house that looked very old school Japanese style. Shota said it reminded him of his grandma's house.
Modern toilets of course.
Just behind our AirBNB was this Japanese cemetery.
We ate dinner at a Yaki niku place where they bring a bbq grill to your table and raw meats and veggies and then you grill it yourself. We had cow tongue, lots of beef, and assorted beef innerds. We had onions, potatoes, hard squash, corn and a bunch of cabbage. It was delicious but the innerds were not my favorite.
After we walked through Kyoto a little but mostly just went back to the airbnb house to bathe the littles and get ready for bed.
Shota, Merril and I stayed up and chatted and laughed. It was the first night I didn't feel was wasted by 8:30 p.m.
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