Since there were a lot of applications to this event this year, the number of applicants reached its capacity very soon and some of them were on the waiting list.
This travel was especially popular among non-Japanese people. Participants were 45 non-Japanese and 25 Japanese people.
There were a variety of nationalities such as Russia, Vietnam, US, India and China. We headed to Tsuwano by two buses.
We experienced apple picking at Tokusa Apple farm. We had a lecture on distinguishing sweet apples, simple way of picking and eating in order not to get hands dirty. We also got a lecture on picking apple without hurting branches. It was very fun to pick apples but also satisfied with delicious apples. We didn’t know there is the best apple orchard in western Japan where we can go apple picking at the bargain price in such a short distance. Since there are many breed varieties of apples at there, we want to visit again.
In Tsuwano, we were surprised at many never-seen-before big carp swimming. We could feel the taste of Japan by interesting townscape which is called as “Little Kyoto”. We t
ook a group photo near the statue of heron dance with a feeling to see the heron dance actually someday.We felt lucky to see an SL of Yamaguchi line near Tsuwano station and the SL was running with spewing out vapor when we passed by the station again by bus.
At Taikodani-Inari, we got a lecture from the bus tour guide on purifying and praying ways that are different from other Inari tutelary shrines then we actually prayed. At the steps with a lot of tori gates, we gave up climbing from the bottom but moved to the top by bus because of our physical strength. It was surprising that some good goers went down to the bottom and climbed up to the top again.
distinguishing sweet apples, simple way of picking and eating in order not to get hands dirty. We also got a
lecture on picking apple without hurting branches. It was very fun to pick apples but also satisfied with delicious apples. We didn’t know there is the best apple orchard in western Japan where we can go apple picking at the bargain price in such a short distance. Since there are many breed varieties of apples at there, we want to visit again.
We grooved a bingo game on the way back from the journey as usual. We were moved from joy to sorrow by readout numbers. We had good weather and finished this research travel without any accidents this year also.
