Shionomisaki 潮岬

From Hashikui-iwa, we took a bus to Shionomisaki (潮岬). The whole bus was full of sightseers, but all local Japanese... Mostly old couples, husband and wife on a holiday, some obaasans and ojiisans, but also 1 or 2 young men armed with big photography equipment. We were still the only foreigners in the bus.

Shionomisaki (潮岬)... located at longitude 135.46 east and latitude 33.26 north in the southernmost tip of Honshu. This is the real southernmost point of Honshu (本州), Japan.

The photos show the Shionomisaki visitor centre against heavy cloud cover, taken across from the shiba-grassland (望楼の芝生).... The grassland, spanning abt 100,000 m2, starts from the southernmost tip and ends at the vistor centre, which used to be the Navy's headquarters in the olden days. Its very big and it took us about 10mins to walk across the length of the grassland. We had lunch at the visitor centre and my friend ordered whale meat ramen. Whale is くじら in Japanese, so whale meat ramen is くじらラーメン. We were at first not sure くじら means whale or dolphin and we had no choice but to ask the waitress through hand gestures. We finally confirmed that it is whale meat when my friend expressed the spouting of water from her head... Haahaa.. (dolphin is いるか in Japanese).

I like it when the weather is good... Clear blue skies and white clouds.... Ideal backdrop for scenery... BUT... the sun was horrendous that day, and both of us got badly sun-tanned...