Beach, Kure and Kura Sushi
Friday 9th June 2017
Went for a quick visit to a beach in the morning, followed by a visit to Kure for lunch and to see the Irifuneyama Western style house there. Shopping at Aeon Mall toward the end of the afternoon then Kura Sushi for dinner.
Japan June 2017
John's Pictures

10:45:51
Chie on the beach.

10:45:59
Erika wasn't keen on getting her feet wet.

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Bamboo.

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All these little plastic pipes are apparently used in oyster farming, and had broken up and washed up on the beach. Erika and I made a little art installation with them.

11:06:17
Our work of art.

11:14:27
Erika, Chie and Chie's Dad getting some sea air.

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11:23:47
Erika wanted to take some pictures. You can usually tell her by the presence of a finger.

11:23:58
She managed to hide the finger for this one.

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There's the finger again.

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I wrestled back control of my phone after this.

12:53:36
At the Irifuneyama now - the house looks very English at the front and very Japanese at the back.

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12:59:27
The very English lounge.

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13:00:03
...and very English dining room.

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...but looking through to some more Japanese bits at the back.

13:03:49
Erika looking out the window in the Japanese bit.

13:06:17
Very Japanese here.

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Difficult to get the lighting here which is a shame as this was a nice scene.

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16:40:32
Erika in the game centre / kids play area in Aeon Mall, where I kept her entertained while Chie and her Mum did some shopping.

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16:57:21
In the play area now, on the bouncy slide.

17:10:02
The toy supermarket.

17:17:49
In the little salon area.

17:35:26
Erika in a princess dress with balloons.

17:38:12
Erika still wearing the princess dress on the bouncy slide.

17:44:52
Chie took a video of this which captured it much better.

19:21:28
At Kura Sushi for dinner.

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Erika, Chie and her grandparents.

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Me and Erika on our side of the table.

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Horrible close up of me.

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Chie and her Mum and Dad.

21:00:06
As we'd be heading off tomorrow we had a little goodbye fireworks display to send us off.

21:01:27
They were more like what we'd call sparklers in the UK.