chadkoh’s avatarchadkoh’s Twitter Archive—№ 18,850

                                      1. It is “Autumn Break” for school, so we are taking the 🚋🚈🚅🚕 to catch the night 🛳️ to Tsushima! 🏝️ We will drive that island a bit before taking a 🚤 Jetfoil to #ikijima!! First time back since we left. We will spend a few days there and I will send some October beach photos!
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                                      Made it to Hakata! The tree is up, ready for lighting next week I suppose? The photo doesn’t show the TONS of people who are here. Very different to the Hakata we arrived at 2 years ago when we moved to Iki 👉 flic.kr/p/2iYrMWw
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                                    Hello from PayPay Dome and an orange 🎃 Fukuoka Tower! We are in an open top bus on the highway!
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                                  Fukuoka Tower slowly turns back to blue… and there is a black cat! 🐈‍⬛
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                                Here is another Fukuoka tower, the Hakata Port Tower. We are getting on the boat in a couple hours, but first, and onsen ♨️ (Btw, this whole are is super nostalgic! We used to come to this port every time we came from Iki to Fukuoka)
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                              Current status: Tsushima Strait
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                            Good morning Tsushima! Was a bit of a bumpy ride last night. We arrived at 3:30am and just slept in the ferry until 7. I think we were the only ones who did!
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                          15 mins across the norther tip of Tsushima is the Korea Viewpoint. The city of Pusan is just 49.5km away. You can see the skyscrapers from here!
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                        Welcome to the Tokoyo Inn beach and hot springs resort! It is neigh-ce (nice) to see you! (Tsushima horses are short little things 🐴)
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                      *Toyoko of course! 🤦‍♀️ Hey, it was a rough ride 🌊 last night so I am not operating at my best.
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                    The decisive Tsushima Strait battle in the 1905 Japan-Russia was the first time an Asian power had beat a western one. Russian survivors of the sinking swam to the shore and were taken in by local farmers.
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                  A list of names of the Russian sailors who did not survive
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                You see these yellow warning signs everywhere warning about the Tsushima Mountain Cat. Haven’t seen one in the wild yet, but have seen a ton of weasels crossing the road. So we stopped at the Conservation center and saw a real live mountain cat!
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              Made it partway down the island. Here is a famous local shrine Watatsumi. There are 3 torii ⛩️ lined up out into the water (5 if you count the shrine grounds). One was knocked down during a typhoon and preserved. Crawl under it for your wish to come true! 🧞‍♂️
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            Stopped by Bairin-ji, said to be the first Buddhist temple in Japan, which would put it at about the 6th century. The temple on the current site is a small Soto Zen temple.
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          Well, we made it all the way to Izuhara in the south. Stopped by the Tsushima Museum which still has a gate from the old Shimizu castle, which was the last in Hideyoshi’s supply chain castles for his invasion of Korea.
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        The second castle in the chain was Katsumoto on Iki. There are only ruins there, but here is the view: @chadkoh/1265846336366063616
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      The first on the chain is Nagoya Castle (no not THAT one) near Yobuko on the Kyushu Mainland. I visited there a while back too: @chadkoh/1372746982763098114
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    @paularcurtis while in the Tsushima Museum I saw this bell, and of course felt obliged to send to you since it is a little off the beaten path
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      Well, I am fed & bathed and in my PJs. Today was a long day of travel, from bumpy seas 🌊 and only getting 3hrs sleep on the ferry ⛴️ to driving Tsushima from top to bottom. I hope you enjoyed my live-tweeting from the edge of Japan! Tomorrow we are off to #ikijima 🚢
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