We decided on Monday without thinking, prepared on Tuesday, and left on Wednesday!
Before deciding, we didn't even know where Takamatsu was.
『Monday』 Booked flights and accommodations.
『Tuesday』 Studying on YouTube in a hurry
Prepared transportation cards and roaming (iPhone Pasmo app, esim)
Registered for Visit Japan
Around the evening, the concept was decided on udon in the group chat, and we were told to think about where we wanted to go before the flight departure and dispersed ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
★ Day 1
We met at Incheon Airport for lunch (We ate stew because we thought we'd miss udon if we just ate it.)
We arrived at Takamatsu Airport, but the customs procedures were complicated at this small airport;; Even though we registered for Visit Japan, they checked everything. I don't know if it was because it was the original FM or because something happened, because it was the first time.
I don't have an udon pass;; I think the event ended. They sell package transportation tickets for travelers at Makamatsu Airport, but I decided to just use a transportation card and charge it at the convenience store on the 2nd floor.
I had a place to stay at Kawaramachi Station, so I took the airport bus, dropped my luggage at the place to stay, and ran to the first udon restaurant.
The udon restaurant I found was good, but there are so many udon restaurants nearby that I could go anywhere after checking the ratings and reviews on Google Maps~ㅎ
For dinner, I chose a yakiniku restaurant, but all the customers were Korean. I thought that meat should be accompanied by rice, so I ordered the smallest size, but it was full..;; It's better to go to an udon restaurant to get a local feel. I've never seen a Korean at an udon restaurant. ㅋ
★ The second day
I decided to go to Ritsurin Park.
I decided to go to an udon restaurant next to Ritsurin Park for breakfast and walked there.
If you buy a Ritsurin Park package at Takamatsu Station, you get a fan that can be used as an admission ticket and a one-day tram ticket, but since our route didn't match, we went straight to the udon restaurant. If you have chosen a place to stay near Takamatsu Station, you can use the pass.
There was a rain forecast, but the sun is shining brightly. It's hot.. Normally, we travel to cool places in the summer, but since this was a sudden decision, we rationalized it into taking it easy and pushed through.
We warmed up our own udon for breakfast. One of our party members did something trolling! They sprinkled a lot of powder on it when they were adding the last topping.
We ate it, saying it was delicious, but one person just couldn't eat it. ㅋㅋㅋ We rinsed it in the broth, but it didn't dilute it. It's beyond repair! Our party member is getting impatient. We diligently typed sentences into Papago that sound like "It's not because it's not tasty, it's because it's a manufacturing failure." I thought it would be better to order a ban, so I left the restaurant first, leaving my party member behind^^
【Ritsurin Park】 has an admission fee of 500 yen. It's a great return on your investment. Despite the hot weather, we went around it hard. Youtubers eat snacks here, but we choose koi rice?! They give us a paper cup for 100 yen and tell us to only feed it to the pond in front. (It’s not famous because it’s close to the udon restaurant, right?) The koi I know run wild and rush at the food, but the koi here look elegant because they’re abundant. They even show us a few, so they take special care of them, and tourists come here to watch them feed them.
We leave the park with a proud heart, replenish our water at a convenience store, and return to our lodgings as scheduled to regroup. The air conditioning cools us down and we take a shower. When we go to the park, we just wash up and wear a hat. It’s not because we’re lazy, but because it’s hot, so we did it on purpose. Gulp.
We board the train at Kawaramachi Station to go to our next destination, Yashimaru. The party, which was excited about stopping by an udon restaurant near Yashimaru for lunch, runs into trouble. We take a shower to regroup, but our clothes are still the same as they were this morning. The girl sitting next to the party member who was sitting on the side I was in charge of is acting suspiciously. She keeps adjusting her mask and slowly moving to the side without being noticed. She doesn’t avoid me all at once so as not to hurt me, but I already noticed it!! ㅠ ㅠ
Party, who has a memory similar to a carp, quickly heals wounds. She asks the students who got off at the station with her for directions to the udon restaurant, and starts the expedition again, but they say it’s a 20-minute walk, so she climbs the mountain in the blazing sun. After walking for 20 minutes, which feels like an hour, she arrives at the udon restaurant and finishes her third bowl of udon!
Oh? Takamatsu is a place where the sun doesn’t shine for long, so the observatory closes at 5 o’clock;; I quickly looked for other places, but they all close at 5 o’clock!
There’s a bus going up, but no bus coming down?! Party is troubled. Should she wait until the sun sets and see the night view before walking back, or try again tomorrow? The party that suffered under the scorching sun today quickly gave up and boarded the city bus.
【Tamamo Park】We chose to just pass by and look around. We thought we would be disappointed even if we went inside, and since it closes at 5, we didn’t buy tickets.
【Kitahama Alley】isn’t really our party’s style either. Except for the arcade game in the editing shop where photography is prohibited, which made us burst with dopamine.
For dinner, we went to the teppan restaurant on the lower floor of our accommodation. We had the excuse that we should eat okonomiyaki, but it’s probably because we’re tired from today’s schedule. While we were having a good time, spreading false information that we had to make okonomiyaki ourselves with the staff, the owner handed us an item. It was an ‘ashtray!!’ The party members’ eyes widened. We had been taught from time to time that smoking is allowed in Japanese bars, but they didn’t seem to believe it. We just fiddled with our cigarette packs while looking at the mood of the table next to us, and then we mustered up the courage to light a light. He looks happy as if he has everything in the world. He ends the day by enjoying smoking confidently, without any trace of the appearance of sneaking around while traveling.
★ Day 3
To overcome yesterday's failure, he leaves the accommodation with a determined heart. He reconsiders the strategy he set to eat breakfast early and move, washes up, and packs up his luggage. He eats near the accommodation, returns, checks out, and stores his luggage at Kawaramachi Station Coin Locker before heading to Yashimaru. There was a forecast for rain today, but there isn't. Weather fairy?
He goes to the owner's house to eat breakfast, where he prepares simple home-cooked meals for office workers who are going to work. The party members are having a hard time deciding which side dishes to choose because there are so many delicious-looking ones on the shelf. They decide to pick one and share it, but they agree to pick it. The chicken looks delicious, so he picks two, but what?! It looks like chicken legs, but it's dry! They displayed chicken breasts like chicken legs~ It’s not that they didn’t taste good, but the party that expected the texture of the tender chicken legs was hurt.. Leaving behind the regret of ‘the mackerel looked delicious..’, we moved to Yashimaru!!
The Chinese party asks the party that dropped off their luggage and was waiting for the train for directions. We were confident because we had been there yesterday, but the leader of the Chinese party is strange. If we express our destination in Chinese, we won’t understand? Tell us in English or Japanese~ He’s dumbfounded and asks if we’re Korean. He must have thought we were Japanese. ㅋ
The noisy party on the two-car train gets glares. We have to wait for the shuttle bus for about 30 minutes after getting off the train, so we look for a nearby coffee shop, and a Japanese person who got off the train with us tries to tell us the way. When we tell them that we’re going to take the bus, they suggest that we walk. More than an hour?! Is he being too timid? It takes about 10 minutes to get to the top by bus, but it’s more than an hour by foot, so I was a little suspicious. While waiting for the bus, a change of strategy!! I was going to eat udon near Kawaramachi Station, but I decided to solve it here because I was too lazy to carry my luggage. Fortunately, there was a good udon restaurant on the bus route, so I decided to go there while coming down.
The shuttle bus schedule for 【Yashimaru】 is unfortunate. Since the admission fee is free, I wonder if it’s because they don’t make money.. There is one bus per hour, but it doesn’t run around 12 o’clock because it’s lunch time, and the last bus runs around 5 o’clock. It would be good to check the bus schedule in advance.
Ah! When I got on the bus and went up, my worries from yesterday and today were meaningless. It’s a slope that I couldn’t solve by bike or on foot. I guess it took more than an hour to walk because it was a mountain path;;
Get off at the parking lot at the top, pass by 【Yashimaji】, and you’ll find an observatory. You can see the ocean and the city at a glance with a wide view. The breeze is also cool. I go into a cafe with a view of the ocean and spend some time drinking tea in the air-conditioned air. The party members were satisfied, so I seriously thought about what kind of job I should have if I wanted to live here. I guess I still have feelings for the Japanese girl who turned away from us on the train. ㅋ
I got on the bus going down, feeling sorry for the night view. (The bus runs late on Fridays and Saturdays.)
For the last udon, you order at the counter first and pay, and then you are shown to your seat. There are various udon, so it would be good to try different udon.
On the way back after eating udon, I checked the remaining cash, and it was 2,500 yen. I calculated the balance on my transportation card last night, and it was enough to get to Kawaramachi Station. My card already had the remaining balance, so I had 910 yen. The other two people could buy airport bus tickets, so they didn't need to find an ATM.
'Why isn't the car coming!!' I bought two airport bus tickets at the ticket booth and waited at the bus stop, but it didn't come.. One of the party members went to the ticket booth and asked again, and they said it was platform 2. The bus came into platform 2 and I got on, but the atmosphere was cold.. Students riding together? There was no place to put my luggage once I got on. When I asked the students sitting in front of me, they seemed embarrassed. They didn’t know how to explain it in English, so they hesitated for a while and then spoke in Japanese. I understood the gist of it and got off at the next stop and quickly arrived at Kawaramachi Station. According to Google Maps, the airport bus leaves from Takamatsu City Central Park..! It seems that the place to drop off and pick up is on the main street about 700 meters away. When we got off the bus earlier, two of us paid 200 yen with coins, and I charged 200 yen with my bus card, so one of us was in danger! And what about the flight time.. Once I got to the park, I saw a line for the bus, so I stood at the back, but should I go to the convenience store to recharge my card;; I can recharge in cash, but I don’t know if I should just get on!! When I got off, it said my balance was insufficient at 710 yen, so I gave the driver 200 yen and he changed the reader to 700 yen, solving the problem~ㅎ
The original plan was to have a bowl of udon at Takamatsu Airport, but I gave up because I wasted time due to a mistake on my first trip and came to Incheon Airport.
Takamatsu Airport departure immigration is not difficult.
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