We still had a few hours before checking into the hotel, so we walked around the Mojiko Retro Area.
Mojiko Port was one of the three major ports during the Meiji Era (1868-1912) to the early Showa Era (1926-1989). There are many lovely buildings from that period that have been restored. It was so nice just to stroll around. The weather was perfect, sunny, warm, with a nice breeze off the sea.
The Dalian Friendship Memorial building with the Observation Tower behind.
I love the contrast between the old and new buildings.
Information on the Dalion Friendship Memorial
The old customs house
This is where I was starting to feel a bit tired! So I had a sit-down while Hannah went upstairs.
Yep, that's me!
The view!
I'm not sure what these show; the photos are from Hannah.
The sign says "Let's take a photo", so we did.
We then went back toward the hotel on the waterfront. To get to that area, you can cross a small bridge, called the Blue Wing Bridge. Just as we were going to cross it, there was an announcement that it was going to open, so we had to wait. Apparently, it opens 6 times a day.
After it closed, we could walk across. But we had to wait because there was a wedding party taking photos on the bridge, it's a popular place for wedding photos!
The bridge fully open.
We came across a few interesting sights as we walked around.
yellow post box, they are usually red!
colourful manhole covers
Banana Man
Mojiko was one of the main ports through which bananas were imported from Taiwan. There are a lot of references to this trade throughout the area.
After this, we went to the Kyushu Railway Museum. Google Maps was very useful, helping us to find places, but I didn't realise that the museum was uphill from the waterfront.
It wasn't too far, but I was rather hot, and my legs were aching already (and this was just the first day).
On the way, we passed some other older buildings.
We stopped in the gardens of this building. Even though there was construction going on outside, the gardens were nice and peaceful. I can't think what the name of this building is, I'll ask Hannah later!
The entrance to the Kyushu Railway Museum
An old sign for Moji, but it's written as Mozi.
Some of the trains that you can explore.
These were the only photos we could take inside the museum.
The man with the box is selling obentos.
The museum was very interesting. I'm not into trains, but even I found the development of the train system fascinating. The first line that was laid in Kyushu went from Hakata in Fukuoka to Kurume. It was laid in Meiji 20, 1887.
There were a few different trains outside that we could see and take photos of.
Information on the trains was displayed, but only in Japanese.
Maybe an express service train
This is where I gave up trying to walk, so Hannah continued on by herself. She took a lot of photos!
There are locks on the lights to open and change the lights.
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