Sunday June 12th - our last rest day of this trip ahead of five riding days into Sapporo this coming Friday.
A very restful day, actually, with the greatest excitement just before 7 p.m. at dinner in a restaurant when everybody's cell phones sounded an earthquake warning. Sure enough, a minute or two later, the ground shook for maybe a minute. It was a 6.2 quake off-shore. From the reaction of the local people around us, this is part of normal life and within a minute, everything was back to normal.
The morning had started with the buffet breakfast at the hotel where we found more than the usual variety of juices just before the omelette station.
We felt obliged to see how well it went with the corn flakes.
Interesting things around town in no particular sequence - the fish market a few hundred metres away from our hotel..
Pillar boxes...
The Moomoo taxi and its immaculate driver with matching tie...
Teddy bear museum in one of the warehouses...
Further along the dock, Ursula poses with the statue of Joseph Hardy Neesima who in the 19th century defied a ban on foreign travel using his small boat at night to reach a merchant vessel in the harbour, got a foreign education, and on his return to Japan, founded the Doshisha English School (now University).
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