Date: 25 Mar, 2019
Time: 10:30am
Weather: 12C partly sunny
Distance: 8km / oneway
Course type: seaside pedestrian path
Elevation: 23m, mostly flat
Traffic Light: around 5
Start Point: Otomari Bus Station
Access: 20 mins by bus from JR Nagato-shi Station
Comments:
- It's a very local and rural area in the Japan Sea side of Yamaguchi Prefecture, almost no foreign tourists found in this area, however it's the hometown of Japan Prime Minister Abe Shinzou.
- I took a bus from Nagato City to an outlying island Aomi Island, then run back from there via the Aomi Bridge, and the town of Senzaki, back to Nagato-shi Station.
- It's a good experience to deep dive into the rural life of real countryside in Japan.
This is Otomari Port, where I started the run, I run towards to village.
Passing by very traditional local store along the road.
Passing by a school playground on the right.
Coming back to seaside, with local houses on the left.
Arrived the seaside path, you see the sign.
There is a hotel by the seaside, but it looks like it's closed down already.
Entering a narrow path, where the sea at its left, and a lake at its right.
Out of my expectation there is a water station along this path.
Arrived the end of this path, which is around 1km long, turn right to the field.
Running in between fields for around another 1 km.
small purple flowers growing in the field.
Joining back to the main road, and run back to Otomari Port direction.
Passing Otomari Port, and go uphill entering the Aomi Bridge, leading back to the main island.
How amazing is the color of the water under the bridge.
crossing Aomi Bridge, you see the fish port of Senzaki.
Keep running until you see the road sign of Kaneko Misuzu Museum, who is a famous poet in Senzaki.
Passed by beautiful wall arts, consisting of thousand pieces of mosaic, the lady on the left is Kaneko Misuzu.
Kaneko Misuzu Memorial Museum.
Keep running along the quiet local residential blocks.
Passing by Senzaki Train Station, very nicely built old style wooden small station.
Coming back to the main road along the seaside.
Nice run along this main seaside road.
Passing by the slogan of Nagato City, around 1km ahead is the finish point, Nagato-Shi Train station.