Road trip with Darren Day 2

Day 2
After a scrumptious Japanese style breaky complete with fish, pickled veges, miso soup, rice as well as chicken, bacon & some various other things I don't know the name of we set about on our day of sightseeing in Inuyama.

First stop was the beautiful castle still in orignal condition. It was built to defend the enemy but fortunately war never came to this port.




The view from the top on this sunny day over the Kiso river with the mountains in the background was spectacular. Spring came a few weeks earlier in this part so the cherry blossoms had already fallen but the new fresh landscape & lovely warm weather was refreshing to my sun starved skin.

Our ryokan is down there on the right about two thirds of the way to the bridge.




We visited the main Shinto shrine in Inuyama which is dedicated to dogs, fitting considering the name of the city... We followed the instructions to pray correctly: bowing, paying, praying, clapping & more bowing...









No visit to Inuyama is complete without a trip to the Monkey Park which also has an amusement park. We saw many varieties of our not so distant cousins & rode the very slow giant ferris wheel as well as two very cool & very fast rollercoasters.

However, nothing could beat these giant stuffed animals available to ride by simply putting a coin in the slot. Sure beats the boring cars we used to ride outside of K-Mart.

We left Inuyama in the arvo & headed for Kobe!

No visit to Kobe would be complete without tasting the world famous Kobe beef. After much walking around trying to find a place to eat it that wouldn't cost us our life savings (not that I have any), we finally found somewhere & OMG I have never tasted such delicious beef oishii yo!