Rest of Day 2; A short post on Iwakuni

So after a nice morning in Miyajima, we head out for 岩国　（いわくに）　Iwakuni.  It's a nice little place with many years of Samurai history.  Probably what is most known about Iwakuni is the famous 5-arch bridge that was originally built (and rebuilt, and rebuilt, and rerererebuilt [it kept collapsing due to river floods]) without any nails at all; just interlocking wood.

We were supposed to also go up the mountain to an old samurai castle, but I was tired and ate ice cream instead  :[  SORRY


Here the few pics that I took of Iwakuni and the bridge:

You may have noticed that there is metal and nails now.  Well the bridge is a tourist attraction and get's much more traffic than originally intended so it was reinforced some years ago.  But it still looks cool!

The river has a weird man-made stone bed that directs water:

Next we went up the mountain to get to the samurai castle, but it was too late so I took some pics of the park around the castle:

My friend Nan's awesome shirt:

Sorry that's all I have of Iwakuni.  It was in the afternoon and I was pretty tired :[

Next post will be about our final day.  We were rushed through Akiyoshido caves and got to take a few pictures of the Akiyoshidai rocky plains.  I will post them soon.  I apologize in advance that the amount of pictures does not compare to Miyajima.

Hope that you enjoyed these.