Monday, June 23, 2008

June Holiday ~ Kumamoto(熊本)- 9th June 2008

The morning of the 2nd last day of our tour took us to Kumamoto(熊本)and we saw the beautiful 400 years old castle of Kumamoto. I particularly liked the colours of the castle, it was in grey and white, and it went very well with the blue sky and the lush greenery surrounding it. We climbed up to the very top of the castle which was about 8 floors up to have a bird's eye view of the city. The weather was great that day, not a cloud in the sky and it was slightly breezy. After lunch, we visited a beautiful Japanese landscape garden which I had forgotten the name...*That's the problem when following tour!* Anyway, it was just a typical Japanese landscape garden with many carefully trimmed plants. I didn't like it so much because I thought that it was too "made-up".
Kumamoto Castle(熊本城)

Japanese Garden
In the afternoon, we were given approximately 2 hours at the shopping street of Kagoshima city where mum bought a blouse and I bought a cosmetic pouch from Agnes B. Shopping time was really not enough...

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