The next leg of our journey is in blue on the map. On this day we would travel from Matsushima to Aizu in the Fukushima Prefecture.
After reaching our final destination for today we would have already traveled over 600 miles with three more days left of the tour.
Here are some photos that I took from the bus on our way to the kokeshi doll museum.
I thought these drying piles of rice stalks looked so cool.
Do you see the flame-colored bush? I kept trying to take pictures of them, but only succeeded this one time. Anybody know what that is?
I liked these trees too.
They were in lots of people's yards.
Apple trees, maybe?
I think this is a garbage truck.
We're getting close.
We're here!
This lady was our teacher in our kokeshi doll decorating class.
Mine is on the left. Sweetie's on the right. She no follow instructions.
After class we took a look around the shop/museum.
We got free ice cream!
Lunch was from a rest stop. This is all we ate. Nuff right?
10 comments:
Love your pics! Interesting that red bush. I wonder what kind of plant that is....? Neat you got to decorate Your own kokeshi doll! Could the trees be peach trees? I know Fukushima Ken is known for peaches.
Izsmom
Oh how wonderful this post was - from the pictures of rice stalks to the mysterious red bush, and how funny Sweetie's doll was her own unique style - she no listen! Loved watching the master craftsman with his use of both modern and traditional tools cranking out doll bodies, and then your lunch of fishcake and musubi makes me want to eat the same thing! An onolicious day, except I don't do well on bus rides, so mahalo aplenty for sharing.
so much fun!! I would love to do that!!
the flame bush is called kokia or broom plant. apparently they used to make brooms from the dried plants.
Peach, Izsmom! I wonder . . .
You know Aunty, there were several people on our tour that didn't do good with the bus ride. Even me too at first. And I know you wouldn't follow instructions too!
You totally woulda done good, Les.
Thanks, Kat!
On a previous trip, i went to hitachi seaside park in ibaraki and they have huge fields of this plant. I think it's called kochia and they said it helps to absorb some harmful metals in the sool. Mercury?
It was beautiful to see all these red plant balls all over the hillside.
Try google hitachi seaside park and you'll be amazed!
On other trips around japan, i see peole have a plant or 2 in their yards. Blooming season is october.
V
For some reason, the dolls reminds of Pez candy dispenser.
Really enjoying your posts and pictures! In this post what really made me smile was actually the...garbage truck! Thanks for including that photo. We got our son a Japanese blue toy garbage truck just like that one for part of his Christmas present this year! :) - L
This looks like so much fun! Much better than our paper making in Korea.
V, I totally got absorbed googling the plant that I forgot to respond here. Thanks for the info!
LOL, Chet, it totally does look like that.
L, I almost wasn't going to included the garbage truck photo! Glad I kept it in!
Kay, I would like to have tried paper making.
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