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Well Fukuoka looks interesting but not enough time again! Fortunately it is the last day trip I am doing.
Everytime I show up at one of these places for a daytrip and get the map I find a good couple weeks worth of things to see and do.
When I arrived it was raining so I hopped a train to the furthest destination hoping it would fine up in the meantime.
Got to a place called Saitozaki and the weather had improved a little. No more rain but overcast with the wind.
Better the wind than rain. This place is out on a little spit with two seasidde parks on it. I went the cheaper of the two.
The place was nearly deserted presumably due to weather and the season.
Was a nice little park, had an amusement section and the rest was gardens and an animal farm.
Wandered the gardens and animal farm for what ended up being three hours! This park is huge, like an island of its own.
I imagine it would have been gorgeous in spring/summer and was still very nice at this time of year.
Found the Kangaroos in the animal park, wallabies but hey. I also saw some prairie dogs!
Very uncooperative, kept hopping up on their hind legs when I wasn't ready. Spent a good 10mins trying to get a photo of that.
After this had to hop two trains back to Hakata which is the name for the central station in Fukuoka.
Wandered the streets, got my return seat and had a bowl of what I am guessing is called "super-insano chilli and tofu ramen" for 630.
This stuff had my eyes watering and my nose running and was still incredibly tasty. The first really spicy food I have had here.
After that wandered a little more, wanted to buy a local delicacy of the hakata area called Karashi Mentaiko which is cod roe pickled in chilli.
Unfortunately the cheapest I could find was for three egg sacks at 1020 yen. Asked if they had singles(hitotsu) but they did not.
By then it was time for my train back to Hiroshima with the sun setting on a now fine day.
All in all a nice little trip out but again not enough time. The train back is the nicest yet.
Big plush seats that you dont have to recline to be comfortable, power point included and a 1min tune before anouncements.
Because I have the rail pass it didn't cost any extra for these comforts either. Pity its only a 1hr trip back.
Not many new pics as the colours were all washed out or something from the patchy light.
Tomorrow I relocate in Hiroshima, go to Miyajima Backpackers in Miyajima-guchi so I should only need to do a ferry ride to Miyajima island.
This too is covered by the rail pass as there is a JR ferry service.
Bye for now