The morning is misty and moist
Sendai Station before 7.02 when the train is supposed to leave
7.02 train is late and it comes at 7.19. WTF What happens to out change that we are supposed to take at Koriyama? Will the train wait for us like those do in Europe.
Aah Koriyama train came Finaly
In Koriyama. We took 2min more time. JR didn't even try to make up for the time. Today here's a German beer festival!
Koriyama eki
What will the 300 000 people unvail for us in an hour that we have to wait here...
This Is what we travel. Seishun 18 kippu (11 500en) that is only sold in holyday season for use in limited time. 5 days of unlimited riding in local JR trains.
nice decorations
S.PaL is here also
There's everything that Ssendai has. Almost
Lauri saw the familiar colours of Yodobashi?
Yeah it's Yodobashi
Old fashion Yodobashi in small compact space
I bought this. In the promiced country of electronics you can find cleaning media for casets, minidisks, diskets etc!
Biggest road
Not so much people before 10am
Good boy scout is allways ready
We made it to the next train to Aizu-Wakamatsu
The Bandai Platou opened for us now
It looks like the rupted mountain
The clouds are dansing on the top of the mountains
Yosh
Still a little rainy / not rainy
A windmill in the middle of mountains. How can that produce electrisity efectively?
Going into a
Tunnel ^_^
Rice field and mountain. 水田と山
we don't know what those big buildings are. Maybe a factory or houses.
Aizu-Wakamatsu
Leaving the train that looked like VR-train
The station
いらっしゃいませ
there were lot's of train spotters on our way. Japanese love trains <3
memory of Boshin Civil War
Aizu railway station
Underpassage
made to look japanese ^^
We are walking to the Tsuruga-jo Castle
I tried to capture a huge spiderweb that's covered with diamond like water drops. Please use your imagination.
Aizu addition to the trashing campain
Shop that sold various kinds of goods
Royal Aizu Hotel. Lauri wanted to stay here fot the night.
Maybe a Kominka 子民家but propably never...
wohoo
Long way to go. Like usual we took the scenery route ^_^ 1-2km too much
Hot! アーアツイー！！！ The air was warmed by the glimpses of the bright fenomina in the sky. Sun appeared!!!
Apartments that look like... SAD とても哀れ気 :'(
This standing Sensei looks like Kekkonen the Finnish President in the times of CCCP. Sensei is the father of Fukushima-ken (a politic too.)
Fukushima Museum
clouds are amazing
Entering the castle area the 1st defence pit
A well
2nd water defence
They loved tennis even in the old times.
View to the entrance
A bridge that leads to the castle premises
So speachless
You can find these in everywhere. It's just a drop and water.
Thou shalt not enter!
No angry defenders
We can see a small glimpese of the castle
Wow
Äitille terkkuja. お母さん、私は大丈夫。
I was here too
Thou who shall enter pay 500en. We got these english pamflets also. Tsuruga-jo, National Historic site of Japan since 1938 and rebuild castle in 1965.
Tsuruga-jo castle yard
Not only agient romans knew the way of concrete. The Japanese knew it also.
When you stick your face here you see a funny picture
Seppuku 切腹 or Harakiri 腹切 wich one will my master allow me...
Upper levels
Bird were playing at the roof. I envied them a little
The rop floor
Here starts the panorama view of Aizu-Wakamatsu
We can see the rain boundary and we soon found out that it was coming towards us.
Forced smile
Lauri doing rocky balboa moment up the hill
Tsuruga-jo 鶴ヶ城
Can something like that really exist?
Matsushima ya, Matsu... Wrong place! Tsuruga-jo ya, aa Tsuruga-jo ya, Tsuruga-jo ya.
鶴ヶ城や、ああ鶴ヶ城や、鶴ヶ城や。
Soon after the water start's the housing
Rinkaku tea ceremony house
See the roof
It's beautiful
Gosankai was a building where sected meetings were held. Folowing the Boshin Civil War this building was moved and today it can be found in the grounds of Amida Temple
Shirine
Last glimpses of the 40m giant
Aizu no aisu ^_^ 会津のアイス
Propably a guardians house
No it's not a prison. It's a comprehensive school (Jr. High)
The fortress
there we were walking and two foreiners came past and greet us in Finnish... That was only 2nd day in a row that we meet Finns. There are so many of us. ^_^
We saw our German (Austrian) friend Adolf with his dog.
The mascot of the aizu-wakamatsu at Aizu railwaystation
After an another hour of wait we got into a train. Finaly
2h waited for the trains now totaly. ちょっと疲れた。
We are leaving but Lauri wants to stop at Inawashiro. Why not? What can possibly go wrong?
Nothing... ;-)
There it is Bandai-san is the second mountain and it can be seen in the on the back.
going in the almost last bus to 5 coulour swamps.
五色沼here we come
wosh
The 3G network isn't all covering in the Japan too
How will this end?
Tsuruga-jo...
The play of the clouds
There
750en to go there and 870en back. Expencive
by by bus
Closed
Were we are. aah we are the red dot.
Just let's go this way
No that's not the pond
The start looks promising
That's the route
The memorial of the volcano eruption
No wonder why JR was having problems. Since the workers are here to have a drinking party
Crushing watermelons and the next day JR didn't work near here since there were “too much rain” but maybe the workers were all having a sickday ;-)
The way starts to become like bad
That's one of the lakes
colour
They should do something to this road
Having a bad hairday.
Not bad view either
They should cut the plants to improave the view
Here be our road?
I got my feet wet and muddy
Yellow
yellow turns to green
like this
and purple
there's blue
It seems to have been raining here also XD
Rust colour
AAaaa, I don't want to step there
What could go even worse ^_^
only a muddy pond
End is there
it is 18.44 of a clock
We made to the last bus out of there
There's a kanji writtien on the mountain
There's also young men running with the tourches half naked.
We are in too hurry since the last train to sendai went an hour ago :D
We misssed the train again by few minutes. 1h of wait for the third time today
Why JR has the summer drinking today??? How the hell we are going to get back home? The local trains are in Fukushima around 23 and our ticket ends 24.00. Maybe we'll go to karaoke or internet cafe at Fukushima.
Our day was saved by money or what could be saved was saved. The shinkansen will take us home!
It comes soon
14min later. Fukushima!
This is the way to travel. Lauris first time.
fast
Sendai
Trying different settings
Hmmm
Ah that was the thing that lauri was wondering
Sendai. Home sweet home!
32min Koriyama-Sendai. JR that's the way in comparrison of the 3h in local train ;) It took another hour and 15min for me to get home here. You'll see the reason soon
Ah, shimatta! My tyre is flat. Thank you who thought this is funny! (actually there was a spike in the tire that broke it but I didn't knew at that time)
