Today we left Kyoto – bound for Nagasaki – after about two hours journey on the shin-kansen we had a stop in Himeji – to visit Himeji castle and the attached gardens. Luggage was left in lockers at the station.

We continued to Nagasaki on a later train – and finally made it there in the late afternoon (after a crazy taxi ride, including a trip through a one-way street in the wrong direction). For dinner we went to do laundry, food was Korean, on the other side of the street from the laundry place and well timed to the wash and drying cycles. Afterward we went to what became the only drinking on this whole trip. We ended up in a bar with live music and had plenty of drinks and fun – essentially celebrating our freshly cleaned clothing 😉