{"id":34180,"date":"2015-11-30T15:01:57","date_gmt":"2015-11-30T14:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peregrinusmundi.com\/minami-face-a-la-mer\/"},"modified":"2020-07-12T18:24:47","modified_gmt":"2020-07-12T16:24:47","slug":"minami-facing-the-mer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peregrinusmundi.com\/en\/minami-facing-the-mer\/","title":{"rendered":"Minami, facing the sea"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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After spending my morning on Wednesday, November 25, settling details in Tokushima, departure in the afternoon for Minami. I take a little regional train of just two cars which fills up a little more at each stop. All the schoolchildren in the area take the same line. After a while I wonder if the limit for the number of passengers allowed on the train has not been reached, but people are still climbing up. They laugh, they talk. Each time one gets on the train, I have the right to a surprised look. At Anan station (a little larger town than the others) the train empties in half. Finally a bit of calm.<\/p>

It started raining from the start of the train journey. The rain and the night make the landscapes sad. And my morale too. I watch (or rather try to look through the fog) the landscape scrolling, telling me that it is here, I am finally in the countryside, that the villages look very pretty, that the concrete gives way to wooden constructions, that this little trip in a country train is quite rural, my morale is in my socks. I feel alone and I wonder a little what I am doing here.<\/p>

Minami finally appears and I leave the train in the pouring rain. No information anywhere, no plans. There is an information center, but despite the light inside it is closed. Unlucky me. I have no idea where my hostel is. I decide to go ahead and tell myself that I will ask for help at the first convenience store, but nothing anywhere! I end up running into two people in a kind of workshop to whom I ask in a quavering Japanese if they can help me to locate my hostel. Very friendly, they go out of their way to explain to me how to reach the address. These few gestures of kindness cheer me up and after thanking them warmly, I set off again, exhilarated, in the falling rain. The little that I see of Minami in the light of the street lamps turns out to be very nice. Small fishing village, Minami is located by the sea and is surrounded by small hills. I will go explore that in more detail tomorrow.<\/p>

The hostel is fairly easy to find. I am greeted with friendliness by an old couple, who was worried a little not to see me arriving. It is a small traditional inn. I must be the only client. The room with tatami mats and sliding doors is very nice. Traditional shared toilets and showers. The gentleman offers to drive me to the local konbini (which is quite far on foot) to buy my evening meal! On the way I see the pagoda of a temple which turns out to be the Yaku\u00f4-ji Temple, number 23 of the pilgrimage of the 88 temples of Shikoku. The old man is very smiling and likes to joke, it is a pleasure! Back to the hostel where I dine in my room then first shower in the traditional Japanese common showers. first wash yourself and then bask in a hot bath. But it is freezing cold in the room and the bath water is no longer very hot. I settle for a flash shower. I really hope it will be better tomorrow!<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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