Shodoshima Island (Kagawa)

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Tonosho Port in Shodoshima Island      Ferry boats to/from Okayama, to/from Takamatsu

'Gift of the Sun', a work by Choi Jeong Hwa (Korea)

'CHIEN ROUGE', a work by Indra Micosavljecic (France)

The sculpture modeled on a teacher and twelve students in the novel by Sakae Tsuboi, "Twenty-Four Eyes"

View from the observatory of 'Kankakei', a gorge of a nationally designated Place of Scenic Beauty

video (18 sec)     View from the observatory of 'Kankakei'.

Kankakei Ropeway Station with a restaurant, a shop and two observatories

video (3 min 33 sec)     View from the gondola

Shodoshoma Olive Garden   Shodoshima is the birth place of olive cultivation in Japan and so the nickname 'Olive Island'.

The play equipment 'Play Cube', the sculpture by Isamu Noguchi to bring art into daily life, in the Olve Garden

The play sculpture by Isamu Noguchi 'Spiral Slide' in the Olive Garden

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Kurashiki (Okayama)

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Kurashiki is a historic city located in Okayama Prefecture, Japan.
Kurashiki bikan district with traditional white-walled, black-tiled warehouses and lined weeping willows.

We can enjoy the Kurashiki River cruise by a traditional river boat.

Leisurely trip down the Kurashiki River seeing the historical Bikan district.

Nakabashi Bridge, a stone bridge at the center of the Bikan district.

The Bikan district at dusk

The Ohara Museum of Art established in 1930 by Magosaburo Ohara.

The entrance of the Ohara Museum of Art

The Main Gallery displays world-renowned masterpieces such as El Greco's The Annunciation and Claude Monet's Water Lilies.

Heading to the Annex Gallery via the Shinkei-en Garden.

The Shinkei-en Garden is a Japanese garden with 56-tatami hall and a tea-ceremony room.

The Japanese garden in the Shinkei-en Garden

The Annex Gallery

The Craft Art Gallery and the Asiatic Art Gallery, renovated former rice warehouses as a gallery.

The Ohara Museum of Art lighted up

The Kurashiki Ivy Square, former site of a cotton mill factory, is now a complex of brick buildings included a hotel, restaurants and museums.

Before the cotton mill factory, the site was used as Daikannsyo, a direct representative office of the Shogunate under the Edo period.

The Kurashiki Ivy Square Hotel covered in ivy

The courtyard in Kurashiki Ivy Square Hotel

Kurabo Memorial Museum, a museum which illustrates the history of the Kurashiki Boseki (Kurashiki spinning mill) company.

Kurabo Memorial Museum

The Alley to Kurashiki River from The Ivy Square

The Ivy Square in dusk

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M.S.ASUKAⅡ One Night Cruise (second day)

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Track chart of the AsukaⅡ One Night Cruise       Heading to Yokohama harbor after had gone around Sagami Bay

Breakfast at 'Four Season', a dining room on Deck 5 at 6:30

Set menu of Japanese cuisine 

Walking around on board after breakfast

Swimming pool 'Seahorse' on Deck 11

'Fitness Center' on Deck 12


'Grand Spa', a public bath with panoramic view on Deck 12         It has also air bubble bath, dry sauna, steam sauna and cold bath.

Memorial plaques of visited ports

Japanese tatami room 'Yusen' on Deck 11

Inside the tatami room

Casino 'Monte Carlo' on Deck 6

 'Card Room', a room for table games on Deck 6

An area for sports at the stern on Deck 6

Self-service laundry

French toast, a snack at 'Lido Cafe & Lido Garden' on Deck 11

Waffle

Omelet

Approaching to Yokohama Harbor             Mt.Fuji can be seen between buildings.

The Nippon Maru which caused an accident in Guam was anchoring at Osanbashi Yokohama International Passenger Terminal.

Tugboat pushing AsukaⅡ to the pier

Arrived at Osanbashi Yokohama International Passenger Terminal at 9:30.

Mt.Fuji seen from a guest room balcony on Deck 9

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