EXPLORATION

On the Thursday night, as in the day after arriving, we met a bunch of the other JETs which was nice. Though I still felt pretty dead in general, and had just met a million teachers at my school then loads more folk. My head was draining out everything it heard, I probably remembered about 10/40 names that day...

Anyways, that night we saw the little Harimayabashi Bridge all lit up. It was first time actually in the centre of the city, but it good to see a few things that night.

There's some story behind this bridge... Eh... There be a man and a woman and something to do with a bridge. They did tell us at some point... But I might not have been listening so much.

Still pretty though.

Ah there be the man and the woman, in small statue form. Oh and me.

The wee trees around the bridge.

 I used my Satureday to go wandering around Kochi. I wanted to get to know the place and to know where I was going in general. Walking around is always the best way. At the train station there are three massive statues of famous Kochi people, well Samurais and stuff. Ryoma is there too, he's quite famous in Japan.

 Palm trees lining the river. We found an amazing outside bar/eating joint by the river last week. Need to go there again..

PACHINKO! SO many Pachinko places in one city, madness. I just love the wee gambling dogs.

 Obiyamachi Shopping Arcade. It seemed totally MASSIVE the first time I walked down it, but now it just seems smaller and smaller each time =D haha          

And to finish off, I don't even like Hello Kitty much whatsoever but it sitting on top of a mini Harimayabashi was way too cute to pass on photo opportunites.