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スマホで作った嘘の広告その6
すまない徳島県、料理とか景色とか良い所があるのは知ってるんだ。でも四国四県回って徳島が一番何もなかったし、むしろそれが良いのかも分からん…… #嘘広告 #徳島県 #japan #shikoku #tokushima #fakead
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Helped clean up the river today. I found a rusted old gas can, a hose, and Venetian blinds!
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We went to this candle festival the other day. This town was nestled in the mountains, all the houses were on different levels and the crops were terraced. They lit something like five thousand candles and put them all over town, it was beautiful. There was food and music and a fire juggler.
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We went to this place last night that was some kind of shack built off a small trailer on a street corner. The guy operating the place was very nice. I ordered whiskey and he poured me a glass of at least 8 ounces. We ate chicken gizzards, shrimp, and fish. This quite possibly beats out Le Tigre in Madison, Wisconsin as my favorite place to drink. Maybe.
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Brilliant Colors All Seasons! Reoma Resort, Shikoku’s Flower Paradise
Have you ever dreamed of having a flower garden all to yourself? At Reoma Resort in Kagawa, Shikoku, you can not only enjoy viewing the flowers but you can also relieve the day’s fatigue with hot springs and great food!
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Biwa Fall near Oboke Canyon, Tokushima prefecture (Shikoku island)
Named after a legend that Heike fugitives played the biwa, an old mandarin-shaped guitar from China, to comfort each other in front of the fall. There are many sayings about loser refugees of Heike clan in Shikoku, which founds none in Kyoto, the then capital city in Heian period.
Biwa (Chinese lute)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipa
I have seen it only at Nara National Museum’s Annual Shoso-in Treasure Repository Exhibition. I sometimes find them in old tales but I wonder there still exists any player.
The Tale of the Heike
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tale_of_the_Heike
There were monk bards for telling/singing the story as playing the biwa in old time. All Japanese are forced to memorize the head part in classical literature class at high school.
大歩危峡近隣の琵琶の滝（徳島県）
平家の落人がこの滝の前で互いを慰めあって琵琶を奏でたところからこの滝の名前が付いたそう。四国では平家の落人伝説の話をちらほら聞く。京都ではまず聞かないので興味深い。
Oboke Canyon, Tokushima prefecture (Shikoku island). It is right on Japan Median Tectonic Line (an active fault), which crosses from Kyushu to Kanto area through Shikoku.
Japan Median Tectonic Line
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Median_Tectonic_Line
徳島県、大歩危峡。中央構造線の上にある。
Some of my most remarkable experiences in Japan came from cycling around. I was so shocked by the public transportation costs from my dormitory to Kyôto University (around 900 Yen a day) that I bought a mamachari ママチャリ, one of those cheap gearless city-bikes with a basket in front, just two days after arriving at Japan. It did wonders for my health, but apart from that, cycling enables you to experience your neighbourhood from a different perspective. On a sunny day, I sometimes took big detours through the suburbs of Kyôto, sometimes passing by Uji 宇治市 on my way home from Kyôto University back to Yamashina 山科区. It was the same mamachari that took me approx. 200km around lake Biwa 琵琶湖 in a crazy “just do it” mood in less then one day.
I am thus confident expressing the following: Japan surely is no place for cyclists. The infrastructure mostly does not exist and where it does, it is poorly maintained or just ignored by the Japanese. Bycicles in Kyôto are everywhere, but it is generally a huge mess. And don’t mention the feeble attempts at gojô 五条 or higashi-ôji 大路 streets, it just does not work.
However, there is one big exception: the Shimanami Kaidô しまなみ海道, basically a toll road for cars connecting the main islands of Honshû 本州 and Shikoku 四国. It covers a distance of approx. 70km over 6 small islands connected through 6 huge bridges and one ferry-ride. Except for the bridges the bycicle lane is often far away from the toll road, sometimes leading through rather rural and extremely scenic places. There is a generous bycicle lane on every street along the way and the bridges offer seperate lanes for cyclist, making it safe and enjoyable to ride along.
We rented our bycicles at Onomichi 尾道市 and returned them at the city hall of Imabari 今治市役所. They were essentially mamachari like the one I rode in Kyôto, but they all offered a gear switch for climbing up the sometimes challenging inclines leading to the bridges. For just 800 Yen a day and a deposit of 1000 Yen (that you won’t get back if you return it at a different station then you lent the bike from) it was extremely cheap.
It took us 8 hours to get from Onomichi to Imabari, but we made a lot of stops along the way, including around 2 hours at a pictoresque temple called Kôsan-ji 耕三寺, a temple founded for exclusively personal reason by a businessman to honor his mother shortly before the outbreak of World War II. Today it features smaller duplicates of Nikko’s famous entry gate Yômeimon 陽明門, the Phoenix Hall from the Byôdô-in 平等院 of Uji, a cave with depictions of the buddhist hell, a very interesting mix of Japanese and Western architecture in the old living quarter of the owner’s mother and a rather obscure hill called Miraishin no Oka 未来心の丘, a monument for the future in shiny white marble.
Anyway: the Shimanami Kaidô is an extremely nice place to go cycling in Japan, and the easy renting system makes it a good opportunity for foreign tourists, too. The nice infrastructure also means that you never cycle alone. At countless stops at Convenience Stores along the way we always met the same people and sometimes local people joined the conversation to recommend the fantastic soba noodles of the neighbouring island.
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This photo of my daughter’s hands was taken on the lazy morning after Super Typhoon Lan. The family slept through the remains of Lan and woke to clear skies in a traditional Japanese room on tamami and futons at the Hotel Obokekyo Mannaka. 。
21 October 2017 。
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