Dogo Onsen Trip

A week after I returned from the US (a week in which I did NOTHING but rest!), we took a weekend trip to Dogo Onsen at Matsuyama City on Shikoku Island with Ingrid and Jim. Shikoku is referred to as the Blue Island, but we did not find out why. It is a large island directly southeast of Iwakuni, across the Seto Inland Sea. (Iwakuni is near the south-west end of Honshu Island, the same island where Tokyo is located further north and east of us.) You can drive to Shikoku by going east (past Hiroshima) and crossing several long bridges which takes about 6 hours, or take the speedboat from Iwakuni and arrive in 1.5 hours, which is what we opted to do.