Day 3: KUMAMOTO

The third early morning started since 6am, it was raining lightly. We planned to go to Kumamoto, the Volcanic town, we was going to Mountain Aso and Nakadake, the famous Volcano of Kyoshu. Shinkansen to Kumamoto had to catch and arrived the station around 9am. Raining stopped already when we reached there. Due to going to Volcano, I had supposed the weather was warm from volcanic flame, conversely, my thinnest sweater couldn’t warm me enough.


At the information center of Aso Mt. there was notice that Mt. Aso, Nakadake was not permitted to be near and Roveway was temporary closed because of toxic volcanic gas as well as too clouded fog that was hazardous. What a pity !!!!! again…. Nevertheless, we got on a bus for the nearest area to Aso mountain.

On the way it was dull with too much fog, if the driver was not skilled enough, I supposed the bus might overshoot a curve or falled to high gorge, Opps!!. Finally, We reached the sightseeing place safely but we could not see anything other than gloomy fog. The wind was very strong and the weather was frigid, I could not stood outside anymore and walked to the building rapidly. We had to wait for 2 hour until the next bus came for pick us up went back to the station and had Bento there. Japanese people are always friendly and nice. During having a lunch, a group of old Japanese folks tried to make friend with us. Though they couldn’t speak English, they tried to use nonverbal language and distributed Japanese snack to us as well.

these are just the Aso pictures that we had not a chance to sightsee due to dull folk

In late evening we visited Kumamoto castle before had a dinner at Kumamoto station and came back my hostel in late night with lots of exhaustion.

everyone was excited in Sakura.

Pae and Poom pretended to be actress and actor of Korean series, haha ><