I rode Kotoden and I enjoyed a hot spring and Kagawa’s famous local cuisine bone-in chicken (Honetsuki Dori).
If you are planning to take the Sunrise train, please visit there before boarding!
It is more comfortable and relaxing than showers in trains!
00:00 Introduction
00:38 Meriken-ya
01:42 Takamatsu Chikko Station
03:18 Busshozan station
04:29 Busshozan onsen
07:16 Orijin
Kagawa Prefecture Tourism Association
https://www.my-kagawa.jp/en
Kotoden Hot Spring & Rail Pass
https://www.kotoden.co.jp/publichtm/kotoden/ticket/kotoden_onsen/index.htmｌ
Busshozan Hot Spring
https://busshozan.com/
仏生山温泉 天平湯のふわふわかき氷 The fluffy shaved ice at Busshozan hot spring
Orijin
https://tabelog.com/kagawa/A3701/A370101/37004935/
🎵Music
Eyecatch( KK)
Stars（Fukagawa）
Night Dew（brightwaltz）
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You started in Kanonji – Wow / natsukashii / shock! I told you that I had gotten lost at Okayama train station – now I guess I'll have to tell you the rest of the story.
My first 3 days in Japan were in Okayama; then I was taken by car to Kurashiki for a week while my first posting was selected. I got the call – I was going to Kanonji! My instructor wrote out my itinerary – take the train to Okayama, change trains to go to Uno, take the ferry from Uno to Takamatsu, then train to Kanonji. The paper I was given also had the name and phone number for my contact there.
Kind of a challenge – I would be traveling alone on this trip. I had been learning Japanese for just 2 months, I could sound out hirigana, but couldn't read anything else. I could converse about very basic concepts with people who were very patient.
Got a good start – but then lost my itinerary paper at the Okayama train station. I could remember the town of Uno – but took the wrong train (I got on the futsu ressha instead of the kaisoku, so I was late). I got the ferry over to Takamatsu easy enough because there weren't any other options. Then I took the wrong train from Takamatsu – got on a tokkyu when my ticket was just for a futsu. A young lady I had met on the ferry helped the conductor explain to me that I needed to pay another 600 yen. Between us, we had to guess at where I was supposed to get off, because I couldn't remember the name.
So I got off the train, and went inside the station and sat down on one of those old wooden benches. I didn't know if I was in the right place, didn't know the name of the person I was supposed to meet, didn't know the phone number to any phone within 5,000 miles.
3 high school girls were sitting on another bench in the train station, looking at me and giggling to each other. So add embarrassment to my list of discomforts – until they huddled together for some quick rock / paper / scissors, then one of them (I don't know if she was the winner or loser) walked over to me and asked me – in English – "Excuse me, are you Mr. Peterson?"
They were students in the Eikaiwa classes my group taught, and they knew there was supposed to be a new teacher coming. One of them ran to the phone and called the person who was supposed to meet me.
I was in Kanonji for 3 months, and it's still one of my favorite places ever.