Japan Adventure

Japanese boat with "sail" on back out in the Seto Sea near Oshima Island.


There's the bridge to Oshima that also crosses the highway. The sea is considered very swift & dangerous here. But very beautiful.


See how the sign post is curved away from the road to allow large trucks room to pass by on Hwy 188? Although it's a major highway, it's not always very wide as it passes through old villages.


Driving in Yanai - At least our little Daihatsu Atrai is built for these very narrow streets. Of course they are 2-way, 2-lane streets!


And the edge of this street drops into a canal - glad there's a guard rail!


We've parked at the Yanai City Gymnasium, across from the tour bus parking, and unloaded our bikes. Yanai is a great place to ride our bikes!


At the tour bus stop across the street, there's a beautiful vine growing to provide shade inside the building. There are also rest rooms here.


Closer view of the yellow flowers & bumpy fruit this vine also provides.


Willow trees are abundant in this area. Yanai means willow. This is a good place to enter the traditional White Wall area of Yanai, where the merchant buildings were built (and some restored) during the Edo Period (1600-1867). This is an important preservation district.