Another day, very little in the way of a plan, weather now not too good, forecast for rain, Donner & blitzen, & I don't mean Rudolf's mates. Decided on a cab to town followed by public transport trip to a Japanese Garden & then a ferry to a volcano.
That is Sakurajima, gently boiling just off the coast.
Decided to directly to Sengan-en, a Japanese Shogun's family home built in the mid 1600's. The Shimazu family lived there throughout in in the 1850's were responsible for modernising Japan. They built a modern armaments factory using western technology. The remains of the blast furnaces can still be seen.
The home a gardens are beautiful, lots of western movers & shakers had visited, including Prince of Wales (Edward VIII)
Poor Linda had a wobbly on that bridge, I had to go and rescue her.
We had some sweet potato ice cream, yum.
You can hire dressing up kit here, and cat lovers will be at home. There's a cat shrine??
Anyway, we decided to set off to our next location, but the weather arrived & we grabbed a cab that we shared with 2 Singapore for an early return to ship.
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