Breakfast with a good view.
Best hotel breakfast I ever had. Damn. The food is out of the whole. I wouldn’t want to miss breakfast the next day too.
It was kind of like buffet style, we had to get our own trays, then place plates and bowls on the tray. Of course, you can’t put too many in one tray. Then, you queue and get food. I’ll try to get a picture of the buffet counter tomorrow.
Anyways! This is what I’m having for breakfast, nothing too heavy. Gotta maintain my weight. There’s mackerel, potato salad, salad, tamago and scrambled eggs. Melons are very sweet and juicy.
Took a taxi from the hotel to Hiroshima (広島市) Station. The distance is properly like Yishun to Ang Mo Kio. ¥1300, which is around $15.
Bought train tickets to Mihara.
I must comment that the train system confuses us most, doesn’t matter if you have done your research well. It’s just crazy. The ticket doesn’t tell u which platform to go to.
This is the popular plan for Hiroshima (広島市) station to Okunoshima (大久野島):
Hiroshima Station (広島市) – Mihara (三原駅) Station by Shinkansen. Mihara (三原駅) Station – Tadanoumi (忠海) station by local train bound for Hiro (Kure line). Then a 10 minutes walk from Tadanoumi station to Tadanoumi port, take the ferry from Tadanoumi port to Okunoshima (大久野島) port.
Although it fastest way and most expensive way is Hiroshima Station to Mihara Station, you will still need approximately 1 hour to get to Tadanoumi Station. The trains scheduled are quite limited. The other routes can save you half the money but takes double the time, may miss the ferry to rabbit island.
Ps. we got the train tickets wrongly this time, we could have just buy tickets for Tadanoumi instead of Mihara.
Here’s how the inside of Hiroshima Station looks like.
The train is here. Oh by the way. Look out for all the signs to find out which carriage u have to go to because only certain carriages are for free seating.
Inside the train, it’s like taking trains when in Taiwan too.
Some photos that I took while I was in the train.
Almost there. We’re at Tadanoumi Station.
Bye train!
We are supposed to top up the fare here because we changed the train directly at Mihara without getting out of the station to get tickets for Tadanoumi. The station master at Mihara said we could top up the difference here. But nobody stop us at the station and we simply could not find any directions of where we could do the top up.
Turn right when you step out of the train station.
Keep walking until you see these signs, turn right.
Cross the railway tracks.
Keep walking along the road and you’ll see this place where you buy your ferry tickets to Okunoshima aka rabbit island.
I expected the ferry ticketing counter to look more run-down, so this was quite unexpected.
Ferry timing, it’s hourly but they don’t come during lunch hours.
Round trip tickets bought!
Buns and snacks are available in case you get hungry. By the way, friends said the matcha ice-cream here is quite yummy.
Can get a little souvenir for ¥10 which is $0.12.
Took many pictures while waiting for the ferry.
Getting on the ferry soon!
On the island! Yay~!
Say goodbye to the ferry.
The first rabbits that we saw, it’s properly peeing when I took this picture.
The shuttle bus to the public hotel is at the pier, the restaurant and the spa are in the hotel.
In case that you want to walk, it is only a 15 minutes walk to the hotel if you head left from the pier, or a 40 minutes walk if you head right. Which also means you only need an hour to walk around the whole island if you do not stop to play with the bunnies.
Totally excited to see bunnies. I’m going to just keep spamming a lot of photos with some other things to take note of in between.
There are historical sites to see on the island too. Of course, they’re not as interesting as the bunnies.
There are also many rabbit’s burrow around the whole island if you realise.
Let’s get back to the bunnies.
You may not see rabbits are certain parts or areas of the route.
The sneaky one that kept following us.
Coming out.
Baby bunny!!!
The family.
The papa rabbit always lying at the side.
There are huge birds flying around.
I see more babies!
Papa rabbit at the side again.
Hungry. Time for me to snack too.
Haha. Come out come out!
Here’s a master.
If you walk towards the only hotel on the island, there’s a restaurant and a cafe inside.
We went to the cafe.
First time using a machine to order food. We are definitely very lost.
With the use of the google translate app, this is the tickets that we have to pass to the staff at the counter.
Sharing this seafood curry rice with the boyfriend. Can hardly see any seafood.
This is the kind of food that you will get here when it is the only place that sells food. If you are hardworking enough, buy bentos from the family mart before coming.
Comes with a dessert that was just very sweet.
The other couple shared a beef curry rice with added rice. There was hardly any beef inside and they didn’t finish the rice in the end. The curries all come from a pre-packaged pack, the staff just have to heat it up.
Just so you know where we are at.
Can take shuttle bus to the ferry but the bus driver has lunch break too, apparently.
See more bunnies while walking back to the ferry port.
See. So kaypo.
Hahahhaha… this bunny ah. It had to eat so very sneakily because not it’s territory.
See! I hypnotised a bunny! It likes getting sayang but scared at the same time.
Group photo.
Kaypo bunny at it again.
Trying to re-gather them.
All gone to sleep after their feast.
Walking back to the port now…
Meet more bunnies on the way.
I didn’t get buried by bunnies.
Back at the port.
There’s even a concrete steps here to help people get on the bus.
Here’s a bunny digging its burrow. Omg, I sound so kiddish.
Some selfies.
Bye bunnies. This trip has been a good one and I truly enjoy it, just look at the amount of photos that I took. It’s crazy but I loved it.
Back on land and we took a different route back to the train station this time. It’s longer.
In order to buy tickets, we had to talk to the station master. He managed to get us to top up for the trip in the morning. LOL.
We sat down at the table trying to figure out why does he need to give us two tickets per person with different prices. It’s just confusing us. Haha. Omg. When changing trains at Mihara Station, we had to insert both tickets in the gantry. Why the machine so smart one?
Anyways, we went back to the hotel to rest a while before going out for dinner. Too much walking for the day.
Not knowing what to have for dinner, we went to try MOS Burger.
They have English and Chinese menu, so ask for it.
The milk tea was so diluted… I was disappointed.
Fries were soggy.
I had the Mos Burger, it was quite bland. The only serving grace was the beef patty, it was juicy.
Supper back in the hotel.
Cheap nama chocolates! Surprisingly good.
This is okay.
This super good.
To prevent colds during the trip.
I found my favourite instant soup!!!
laa laabi 