My summer vacation

During the summer vacation, I took trips to 3 spots in Japan.

First place is Yakushima of Kagoshima prefecture.
I went to there with my friends. When I was a high school student, I thought I wanted to go somewhere to see great nature. At that time, I was tired because of study for entrance exam. I asked some my friends whether they could go with me or not, and 2 friends said they could.

After graduating high school, we talked precisely about when and how we got there. We decided to take the bus to Kagoshima and ship to Yakushima. On October 28th, we left for there.

Yakushima is an island where a lot of nature exists. I was moved because I couldn’t see nature like that in a daily life.
Yakushima is a place where became a stage of “Mononokehime”, a movie of Hayao Miyazaki. There is a forest called “Mononokehimenomori.” We went to there. It was a very fine whether. It took about 2 hours to see that and that was really like a forest in the movie. There are many kinds of mosses, woods, and plants which exist only in Yakushima. We were always surprised at power of nature. We could take a good rest at Yakushima.


Second place is Hiroshima prefecture.
I went to there with friends by car. We have a friend in Kure City of Hiroshima, so we decided to stay his house.

First day, on September 4th, we got to his house spending 3 hours and just stayed his house.

Second day, we went to Onomiti City. Onomiti City is a place which became a stage of a comic “Pastel” and we wanted to see there. Onomichi has roads and buildings where history remains and I was very interested. View was also beautiful. We bubbled over and turned seeing the place where the stage of the comic and enjoyed.

Third day, we went to Miyazima. This is a place where Shinto shrine is famous. We got there by taking the ship. When we got off the ship, I couldn’t believe my eyes. There were a lot of dears in front of us. An old man sold rice crackers and we could give them. We have been crowded momentarily at the time we had the rice crackers. There might be 20 dears. They ate my T- short and pant, too.
After feeding, we started to go to see the shrine. We can go through the torii of the shrine in the morning, but in the afternoon, we can’t because it is soaked to the sea. We couldn’t go through because it was at 2 o’clock.
There were many oversea tourists and I felt this place was really famous.

The big things I did in summer vacation were only these, but I could take a good rest in my hometown and spend happy summer vacation.