Kate and I had planned to go somewhere new for me for a few days and since it is summer we thought the perfect place to go would be Amanohashidate. Amanohashidate is 3hours north east from Himeji and is a beach town. The main attraction is Miyazu bay and the “Bridge to Heaven”. It is a lagoon that has been created by a sandbar which joins the two peninsulas. The “bridge” (sandbar) is 4 km long and has pine trees and a white sand beach.
We arrived at the train station to be greeted by a guy holding a scroll – Kate wondered if he was for us but I wasn’t sure, but he was! He then led us to a car which was like a Rolls Royce! We sat in the back with so much room! We kept laughing thinking who are we?! Rich girls! He drove us to our hotel which was really nice. We went for a short bike ride but it began to rain so we headed back to the hotel. Our dinner and breakfast was included in our package so we enjoyed a 6 course meal each night and a “biking” breakfast (I love it! It is really called a viking breakfast as it is all you can eat but the cute way Japanese people say it sounds like “biking”!)
Us with the "fancy car"!!
Our hotel.
The next day we went to the cable car which goes up a mountain to give you a full view of the sandbar. It is one of the 3 best views in Japan! Luckily the rain cleared up and we had a good view of it. The funny thing is you have to put your back to the sandbar and look through your legs! Then you get to see the “Bridge to Heaven”! It does appear to be floating when you look at it from that angle! We then went to the temple in town and hired some bikes to ride across the sandbar. We rode a little way along the sandbar and came to a shop with snow cones – Kate wanted to try one so we stopped and the man at the shop told us where to park our bikes. As we are enjoying our snow cones I look up and our bikes have disappeared! We ask the man and he explains that he just hired out 2 bikes for 20mins and they must have taken ours! So we wait and eventually they come back – luckily! We ended up riding along the whole sandbar and back and stopped to walk in the water but it was too cold to swim!
The sandbar.
Kate and I.
How you are meant to look at the "bridge to heaven"!
What it looks like from that angle!
The snowcone!
Where we rode along the sandbar.
The Beach.
For our last day in Amanohashidate we went for a short trip to a local fishing village called Ine. It is a very small village where all the houses are right on the water and they have carports for their boats which are actually parked under their house! It would be a great place to go out in a boat as the water was such a beautiful green colour. We also saw old women drying fish on bamboo screens.
Ine - the fishing village.
Fish drying.
Fishing boat.
So sadly our “rich girl” holiday had to come to an end but we both had a fantastic time!
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All I can say is - "Pretty woman, walking down the street!!" Who am I???? Quick before Marie guesses it hehehe :-)
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