This time, FUN! JAPAN planned a trip to discover the beauty of Setouchi. Most of the travelers to Japan visited Tokyo, Kyoto, or Hokkaido before, but never had chances to reach nice places in this Setouchi area. Let’s discover the hidden magnificent and lovely landscape in this area!
Setouchi Area Pass, your Dokodemo Door at This Area
As we are going to travel from Hakata Station to KIX (Kansai International Airport), we decided to use this Setouchi Area Pass from JR to save our transportation fee and maximize our convenient during the trip. This is the pass that allows you (only for tourists from overseas) to ride Shinkansen, normal train, ferry and even buses operated by JR during 5 consecutive days, with only 18,000yen. Yes, it is an unlimited-ride pass.
In order to have a more comfortable trip to the first destination, we put our suitcases at our hotel at Hiroshima, and travel back to the direction of Hakata. The trip from Hakata Station (near to the Fukuoka Airport) to Hiroshima Station (near to our hotel) took only around 1 hour, even it is more than 250km!
By holding the unlimited-ride pass, we can ride the Shinkansen without the process of buying tickets at the counter each time before the ride. We just showed it to the staff near the gate, then walked to the platform. That’s it!
And also, we had enough rest in the comfortable Shikansen before reaching each destination.
Kintai Bridge, your bridge for time slip
Kintaikyo (錦帯橋 or Kintai Bridge) is a beautiful wooden arch bridge which first built at year 1673. It was then rebuilt few times since then. It is not just about the history it has, the scenery here is also peaceful.
Spot information
- Spot name: Kintai-kyou (錦帯橋)
- Address: Iwakuni, Yamaguchi Prefecture 741-0062
- Access: 20 minutes on foot from Kawanishi Station, or 10 ~ 20 minutes by bus from Iwakuni/ Shin Iwakuni Station.
Hiroshima-style Okonomiyaki, the local food
This time, we try to eat local food. When you are in Hiroshima, you should eat Okonomiyaki, that is what they said. We found a nice Okonomiyaki shop near the Shinkansen station. We had some oysters and seafood Okonomiyaki. It is fun looking at them preparing our meal just in front of us.
Spot information
- Spot name: It-cyan Ekie Dining brance (いっちゃん ekieダイニング店)
- Address: 1-2 Ekie Dining, Matsubara-cho, Minami-ku, Hiroshima-shi, Hiroshima 732-0822
- Access: 2 minutes on foot from Hiroshima station.
Everyone was excited after knowing that we are going to look around the Hiroshima city using the HIROSHIMA Sightseeing Loop Bus, and also visit the famous Miyajima by ferry etc. tomorrow. Most of the participants this time never visited Setouchi area before, including Hiroshima. So, we want to utilize this JR Setouchi Area Pass to discover the beauty in this area during this trip. Furthermore, as this pass covers a wide area (even access to KIX, Kansai Internation Airport at Osaka), we actually have no worries about train tickets. We can concentrate on our trip!
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