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Let's eat "udon" in Nakatsue Village
(Total Data, Day 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 , 8, 9, 10)

Last updated on Jan. 04, 2005

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Good Morning at Kumamoto Park Hotel (AM 8:19)
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in Kumamoto City (AM 8:23)
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Road to Kumamoto Port [Prefectural Road 51] (AM 9:14)
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ride on a boat from Kumamoto to Hondo(Amakusa)
It is not a car ferry and I don't have enough time to pack may bike, so I negotiate to the man of the boat and take my bike on the deck.
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bike on the deck (AM 9:56)
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beautiful Amakusa!
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along Route 324
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next boat to Kuchinotsu
this time, car ferry!
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Beautiful Ariake Sea (PM 3:09)
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beautiful too, along Shimabara Bay!
ride fast to Shimabara [Route 251] (PM 4:48)
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take a rest at Road Station ("Michinoeki") "Fukae" (PM 6:12)
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		Look! The first floor is under the earth.
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This Road Station contains Museum.
A volcano Unzen erupted in 1992. This is the museum not to forget the miserableness.
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hurry to Shimabara (PM 6:12)
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Shimabara Castle is in my sight (PM 6:40)		at Shimabara Sta. (PM 6:40)
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today's inn : Shimabara Dai-Ichi Hotel
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dinner at a "Oden" stall in Shimabara (PM 11:16)
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drinking at bar "Sugar Time"
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endless night continues...

DATA on Aug. 13, 2002

Weather	fine
Route (prefecture)	Kumamoto(Kumamoto) -- (boat) -- Hondo(Kumamoto) -- (Route 324) -- Oniike(Kumamoto) --(boat) -- Kuchinotsu(Nagasaki) --(Route 251) -- Shimabara(Nagasaki)
Distance	78.40 km
Time	4 hours 52 minutes 53 seconds
Average speed	16.0 km/h
Max. speed	42.2 km/h
Difference of altitude	55 m
Note	good! good! All roads are comfortable. recommended.
Accommodation [charge]	Shimabara Dai-Ichi Hotel (Business Hotel) [6,930 yen with breakfast]
Diary	The men and girl in the front of the last hotel recommend Amakusa, so I got on the boat. The scenery in Amakusa & Shimabara was beautiful! Good riding. In Fukae, I felt the strongness of the people. I couldn't understand the natives' conversation in "Oden" stall in Shimabara. After stall, the endless night had started.