Sushi Breakfast!

The whole point of going to Shimonoseki was to take mum and dad to the early morning fish market. Luckily my parents didn’t get us up before 5am (like Dawn’s did) and we arrived just as the market was getting busy.

After wondering around and seeing what they had, we bought sushi, giant shrimp, whale meat (cooked and raw) blowfish and clams. It was a good breakfast!

The rain held off long enough for us to have a little walk around the city and visit Akama Shrine, dedicated to the child emperor Antoku. It’s actually one of my favourite shrines in Japan!

We headed back to Kumamoto in the afternoon as we were supposed to go to Kumamoto with the Kumamoto gang. So many people were busy though so we decided to turn it into an impromptu party at my house. We all squeezed in nicely and we had lots of supplies!