This is the final part of the set and the last hours of the tour. After visiting the Kintai Bridge in Iwakuni, we were forced (not literally) to visit a nearby pickle (Kimchi) shop where all the pickles were made and packaged on site. This was then followed by the final coach ride to Hiroshima train station where we boarded the Shinkansen back to Osaka. All photos were taken using the Olympus OM-D E-M5 + 14mm and 25mm lenses.
On the last leg of our tour we visited the city of Iwakuni, in the Yamaguchi prefecture. The city is home to the famous Kintai Bridge (Kintai-Kyo).
Here, my tour mates flocked into a small hut after paying 300 yen to see the "Iwakuni White Snake" which the city is also famous for. Although, as far as I could tell it was just a albino Japanese Rat Snake, this didn't stop some of the astonished tourists filling up a large fraction of their memory cards with blurry, poorly lit photographs of their own reflections while attempting to photograph the snake behind the glass.
All photos were shot on the Olympus OM-D E-M5 + 14mm lens
The second day of the tour saw us continue into the Yamguchi prefecture and a visit to the Akiyoshidai plateau and Akiyoshido cave, Japan's longest cave. All photos were shot on the Olympus OM-D E-M5 + 14mm and 12-50mm lenses
Following our brief leg of the tour in Miyajima, the next stop was a little town called Tsuwano in the Shimane prefecture. This was a picturesque little town, nicknamed Sho-Kyoto (or little Kyoto) due to its resemblances to Kyoto. This was followed by our over night stay in the town of Hagi, Yamaguchi, where we enjoyed a traditional Japanese meal which included Poison fish (Fugu) sashimi. All photos were shot on the Olympus OM-D E-M5 + 14mm and 12-50mm lenses
