Mojiko And Shimonoseki Trip Part Eight

 I can't believe it's taken eight posts to write about a four-day trip. 

One more museum and Shinomoseki Station.

The next museum was the Yamaguchi Bank Museum. Downstairs was the original bank area, with the old teller windows.

Outside of the bank

Why were there cows heads on the building?

The outside was really beautiful and very Western in its architecture.

The old teller counter

The vaults, why was one so high?

The second floor had the history of the bank, money and a little bit about Yamaguchi. We couldn't take photos in there.

After that, we went up to the roof garden. Again, beautiful views of the Strait and the ships passing by.

I took a few photos.

Hannah watching the sea!

We decided to get the bus to Shinomoseki station after this. 

The bus was really packed, I was so happy that we didn't have our suitcase with us, as I think it would be hard to get on and off this bus!

Welcome to Shinomoseki

The shopping mall next to the station.

We had a couple of hours before we had to get the train, so we had a look around the mall.  

We found a Daiso store, the 100 yen store. Part of the store had the Threeppy store inside. Threepy is part of the Daiso group of stores, three refers to the fact that goods start at 300 yen, about £2, ppy stands for happy. There were so many lovely things there.

We bought a few things! I know I'm in my 60s, but I'm still a sucker for cute goods. I only bought myself one thing, a lovely notebook! Hannah got a makeup bag and a pen case.

This is what we bought.

This was the display, Hannah had to drag me away from it!

We had a little wander around. Nice mall, but not a lot of information maps, we got lost a bit!

We decided to have a little bit of lunch; neither of us was really hungry, but I know that if I don't eat something regularly, I get lightheaded. The train journey was over 2 hours, I didn't want to get dizzy on the train!

We went to Saizeriya for lunch. It's an Italian chain restaurant. It was very busy and noisy, but alright! We shared a pizza and some hash potatoes. Hannah got dessert, tiramisu.

Lunch

We then made our way to the station.

Where you go to get the platforms, there were signs indicating which trains were bound for Kyushu. That felt a bit strange.

There were orange trains, near us, the trains are red!

We had to change at Kokura. The station there was massive, there's also a castle and a manga museum. I'd love to go for a day trip!

Near Kokura station, looks like a shrine on the roof.

After Kokura, we had a long ride, about 2 hours! But we got back alright, and Mikey picked us up from the station.

A couple of little videos from the train.

I really enjoyed this trip, but it was hard on me, I ached all over when I got home!

Tomorrow I'll explain what I learned on this trip and a little catch-up on what's been happening this past week!