Days in Kyushu with Mom

The best thing about Kyushu was the food. This is what we ate for lunch on our first full day. It was all delicious.

We only stayed in Fukuoka for one night (although it was a really cool city). The tonkotsu ramen was pretty awesome, too. I found a good route to take up the next few days onbikely.com. Then we dashed off south to Kurume 久留米, a town that has a bike path, and headed northwest. The bike path stopped at Harazuru　原鶴, a little onsen (hot spring) resort town, where we stayed at a real hotel. My mom was excited to wear the yukata robes.


The next day we backtracked a bit to see the 8th biggest tree in Japan. It's supposed to be 1500 years old. My mom also took pictures of three little old ladies who were tending their gardens right next door.

Next we passed through a cute Meiji era historical town, crossed a mountain path, and headed to the Yamakuni 山国bike path.
Here's a torii gate with a tunnel dug by monks in the background. The actual shrine is behind us, but you have to pass between a gas station and a convenience store to go there, and we didn't want to photograph them.

At the end of the bike path was Nakatsu 中津, with a lovely castle and shrine. There was a cute high school couple eating lunch in their uniforms to the left that I really wanted to photograph.

And those are my Kyushu pictures. The main thing that's missing is the landscape, which is much more spacious than Shikoku or western Honshu, and the wheat fields. Also the Shinkansen, which I was very excited to take back to Hiroshima. Also, it's funny how no one outside the area knew of any of the towns except maybe Kurume.