This post covers April 4th
Woke up, breakfasted then filled in some time in Hamamatsu in the morning waiting for the train:
Saw an interesting rack:
Watched the street cleaner lady:
Anyway, the train got us from Hamamatsu to Shizuoka
Hamamatsu to Shizuoka & Hatsukaesai Festival at Sunpu Castle at EveryTrail
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Click through and zoom in at either end of the route to see the wanderings. (Incidentally I don’t know what’s up with these everytrail links going white, but for now I’m assuming it’s a fault at their end and will keep linking them here in the hope they sort it out eventually…)
Caught up with Nicola’s friends at Shizuoka:
Where we stumbled into the Shizuoka Festival at Sunpu Castle:
We had lunch under the cherry blossoms:
But some people weren’t allowed:
And it continued into the night:












