After a bit more than 3 hours of riding the JR tracks we arrived at Mt. Aso where we had to wait a bit for the local bus up to the vulcano viewscape. It was surely worth the trip there and we were lucky enough to have a full safe zone (no alarms or fume warnings) so we could have a good view on everything. I got myself one of those memorial medallions (like the ones I got last year from 2 other places) for a few hundred Yen.
After we scrounged the entire viewscape path we took the cable car back down and decided to look for Aso Shrine. It took us various stops at local shops to ask some directions with the locals but we finally made it. The funny thing was when we saw the guy from the FamilyMart we stopped at (for asking directions) at the shrine, he followed us there to check wether or not we actually found it or not :') (I seriously love this country ^__^).
At first we all thought it would be a tiny shrine, but it ended up being quite a large and nice one. One of the locals gave us some empty bottles to take some of the blessed spring water back with us :).
After the one hour walk to the shrine, half of us decided to head for the nearest station (which was only a 10 min walk from the shrine) and eat there. The other 4 were stubborn and went all the way back to Aso station and didn't had anything to eat because they just made it in time for the train :3
Look at me, I'm a vulcano O_o :
2 opmerkingen:
wauw die Japanners zijn echt wel super vriendelijk zo te zien. Echt geweldig dat ze zo behulpzaam zijn :)
Wauw, dat lijkt mij echt wel een mooie uitstap, naar een actieve vulkaan!
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