Continuing our Japan Trip, we travel to the Okayama Prefecture to explore Bitchu Matsuyama Castle and Kurashiki.
On the first day of our Japan Travel Vlog, as traveling the Oki Islands was rather inconvenient during the off-season, we decided to instead venture to the Okayama prefecture, where we stayed overnight. But before that, I decided to finally fly my drone around the Oki Island Port at sunrise to get some nice cinematic drone footage. Afterwards, we took a ferry and bus to Okayama where we stayed overnight. The next day, we set out to explore the famous Bitchu Matsuyama Castle, also known as the castle in the sky, because of the fog that can be seen in the mornings between September and March each year. Unfortunately, the castle is not easily accessible and you have to take two buses and walk quite long to reach it. However, at the top there were beautiful Japanese Autumn Colors, which I took some great drone footage of. We explored the castle, which is one of twelve Japanese original castles (for my explanation on original castles, you can check out day 3 of our travel vlog here). Even though it is difficult to get to the castle, I can definitely recommend it to anyone who is in the area!
Continuing, we ventured further into the Okayama prefecture to a nice and small canal town called Kurashiki. As we were there on a Sunday, Kurashiki felt a bit touristy but nevertheless was a nice typical Japanese town with a canal running through it. Lined up, there were old warehouses which now house shops selling Japanese snacks, souvenirs and other trinkets.
Later we went out for dinner to a local fish restaurant and prepared for our next day trip to Matsuyama in Ehime Prefecture, Shikoku.
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