11.a 7 to 20 April – Together with Elina

Our WWOOFING experience in Japan coming to its end, our 2 weeks with Elina were more like normal holidays as tourists, although thanks to hospitality and guidance from local friends and thanks to Hélène’s skill in triggering opportunities, we also had some interesting surprises aside from main sightseeing attractions.

As often we did not stay put:

  • Gifu countryside at the Ishida’s (Rei’s brother and wife, i.e. Go’s uncle and aunt)
  • Trekking on a short stretch of the Kumano Kodo road
  • Ohara and Kuramahommachi , north of Kyoto
  • Obama on Japanese sea coast
  • Myama and a bit of Kyoto

Tokoname, just south of Nagoya

Before it came to be a touristic place, Tokoname was a town of industrial pottery
If you give it a close look, at the back in the weed jungle you can see some of those clay pipes and jugs… they are now used to build walls, terraces…
Can you make the bike?
A kill
As already mentioned we caught up with sakura blooming!
Making pipes, cable pipes, sake clay jugs… ( none of which are on these photos..)

This was just a meeting place with Elina, half way between Nagoya and its international airport … a relaxing place to wander around the tiny streets out of frenzy Nagoya and more exotic than airport hall.

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