Kagoshima

I took the day off today to take mum and dad on a day trip. They had a choice of Nagasaki or Kagoshima and they chose the latter.

This meant dad got to ride the bullet train again which he loved!

After arriving in Kagoshima I convinced them that the best way to see the city was a ride on the big wheel which itself was on top of a shopping centre.

A tram and ferry ride later we were on the island on Sakurajima which is one Japan’s most active volcanoes. I wanted to take them to the Furosato onsen but with all the rain over the last few days we arrived on the day it was closed for cleaning.

Mum and dad weren’t disappointed as they weren’t sure how they felt about getting naked with the locals. We took a stroll around the museum, stopped for lunch and too a bus tour around the entire island.
Just as we reached the last five minutes of the tour, the volcano “puffed” for mum. She had been waiting all day for it and got very excited when it happened. So much so that the actress came out in her!

After all that we headed back to the city, sampled the local black pork for dinner and headed back to Kumamoto.