Sakamoto-san, the father of my good friend, Eri , knows much about this place because he loves photography. He knows a lot of places to go every season to see the flowers, or sights and take photos, of course. So he invited me to join him and his wife, and Eri's family for sightseeing bus tour to Mt. Yoshino.
It was a Black Saturday, Eri and I skipped choir practice for Easter Sunday. Prior to this we checked the weather forecast and we were quite disappointed because it said that area will be a bit rainy and chilly. We decided to go anyway - rain or shine !
I met up with Eri san , her husband, Yoshiro-san and daughter, Reiko on the Hankyu Okamoto platform around 8:20 am. (I had to take an early morning shower and full breakfast that day :) ) We would be taking the express train to Umeda. The bus terminal for the sightseeing tour buses is at Umeda.
We departed Umeda around 9:30 a.m. Quite gloomy and there was a bit of a shower, but we were too excited to care and we were ready for the rain, we brought along umbrellas just in case.
First stop was at a service station in Osaka for a restroom break. We had about a few minutes to spare after going to the restroom . So before we were to get on the bus again, we decided to look around and check out some of the shops in the service area. I did find this interesting display .
I don't know the name of this character
The tour includes a packed lunch. Since there was no place (and time) to stop for lunch from the service area, the tour guide said we could eat our lunch on the bus at our seats.
the yummy and healthy bento lunch
We arrived at Mt. Yoshino area past 12 noon. There were already a lot of buses and people from different places and countries. It was an awesome, fine day! Not rainy, after all. Miss Weather, changed her mind. :)
From the welcome area, we could already see lots of cherry trees in full bloom, all around! What a sight to see !
(to be continued)
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