Ichikai Town

It’s the last day of one-week-long-holiday or Golden Week in Japan, today.

I have been rather relaxed except for going on a short trip to Ichikai town.

My wife and I went there to see a spring flower field. The weather was not perfect but we enjoyed seeing beautiful scenery there.

On our way back to home, we dropped by a Café Hidamari to have lunch at a table near grass garden.

The taste of the lunch was not recommendable but it was reasonably priced.

carp-shaped Koinobori streamers 

Golden Week in Shimane

I went to my hometown Shimane prefecture during the Golden Week and stayed there on May 2 and May 3.

Golden week: the period from April 29th to May 5th when there are four national holidays in Japan.

My mother, my brother and my sister-in-law live together in Matsue, a capital city of Shimane prefecture.

Shimane is located about 1,000 km southwest of Utsunomiya.

During this Golden week season, it becomes very hard to take air tickets, so I drove all-night-long my car to the town, to be exact, it took us seventeen hours.

It’s really tough to drive so long hours but we had a very meaningful moment together with family members.

Flowers and a butterfly in the garden of my mother’s house.↓