Weyajima

Miyajima was supposed to be a fun trip. It was another trip with my (now) ex-girlfriend. I took the day off from work to go. Unfortunately, fighting the night before and then towards the end caused some trouble in the end, but during the actual time at Miyajima it was fun for me at least. I had hoped to also go to Iwakuni's famous bridge, something I had been meaning to do back when I was dating the girl in Iwakuni and foolishly thought we could just go whenever, but instead of taking the train, we drove there, and by the time we were leaving, my driver was pretty angry and just wanted to go home as fast as she could.

There's not much to explain, so I'll just post pictures. You need to ferry out to the island. If you come at the right time, the tide will be low enough for you to walk over to the torii gate. I got a little wet, but I was able to reach it. But by the time we were leaving, it was low tide.

Yes, pictures.

Apparently the ferry is run by one of the train companies. They have the same ticket and ticket machines and everything.

There were a few deer, but unlike Nara, they tell you not to pet them.

I was basically forced to take my picture like a tourist with the people dressed up.

Deer swarm.

The male priest apparently wore the blue version of the outfit. The females had the red I was familiar with.

I won the worst luck award!

I slowly made my way over the thousands of shellfish to the shrine.

And even walked through it.

Then I went to see the two pagodas.

A deer ate part of the wrapper for my sister's present suddenly.

Then we went back.

But before I could get home, she got really mad at me and dumped me off at a train station presumably closer to her house than mine. At least the view was nice.