Morning

… and this was a fabulous breakfast for just over $10 (exchange rate has gone up in past few days). A real delight In Kumamoto.

… as a bonus the menu was in English. I would have chosen it from the pictures alone.

Kym found it on google last night.. it only does breakfasts. In Japan there are not many places you can find open for breakfast. It’s located opposite the railway station complex, and on the second floor – highlighting good things are around if you look (and thanks to google).

Watching leaves

While we move closer to Tokyo (and then end of the holiday), the temperature is certainly getting colder.

We got to Kumamoto earlier thanks to an earlier ferry ride, and 13km from the port to the city.

Before going to the castle we stopped off at Kitaoka Nature Park… which had plenty of autumn leaves and bamboo forests for the two of us. I say that as there was only one other person in the whole park apart from us. I think autumn is my favourite season in Japan.. just the variety of colours in the leaves when the sun shines through… ah.

I stood there watching the leaves fall… with no other sounds apart from the birds and the leaves…. Ah Japan…