Yanagawa: October 27th 2007
We decided to go with a group (Eunyoung, Shin Jung, Michael, Steffi, Kristina, Ichen, King, Kahyun and me) to Yanagawa by train. At the trainstation you could get a package, like train, busride and boattrip together for a cheap price. Yanagawa is not really a big place, but you can have a nice boatride there. The boatride was fun, we had a guy who was dressed in traditional clothes (I think) and he had a funny hat and stuff. The man told us stories in Japanese, which were pretty difficult to understand. Sometimes he would start singing old Japanese songs, which was really cool to hear.
The boat ride lasted for 30 minutes and the view was pretty amazing. When we arrived at the place were it ended everybody was pretty hungry. Now the speciality of Yanagawa is eel (unagi in Japanese haha remember Friends) and I don’t really like fish, but most of the people wanted to eat it. In the end me and Steffi and Michael went to a supermarket for some bread and the rest went to eat eel. Afterwards we just walked around, we went to a souvenir shop and to some shrine and some other places that didn’t really have anything to see. ^^ Yanagawa is a small town that has not really a lot of places to go to. We saw signs that said something about a castle, so we tried to find that. At some time we got lost and it took a while for us to find that castle. When we finally got there, there were actually only ruins left. With ruins only one stone is meant. It was really stupid, nothing to be seen.
The trip wasn’t so special or memorable I think. I did like the boatride, but there was really nothing else apart from that in Yanagawa. Maybe for half day out this is a good place.
