12 November 2024
Blue wall
Fukui Katamachi area
Tonight I went to the other busy area of Fukui, I think. I could not really find anything there, so I had to retreat back to the comforts of the station.
On my way back to the station I passed the castle ruins I saw yesterday, at night they are blue. Blue lights are normally reserved to show you something is running on some form of clean energy, so perhaps the ancient castle wall is in some way green powered, so it is lit up blue.
Now to describe a near catastrophic failure.
My plan tomorrow was to go to the world famous dinosaur museum. Then to go hiking again on Thursday. This afternoon I checked what time the museum will open tomorrow. It is not open tomorrow at all, it is closed on the 2nd and 4th Wednesday's of the month. Now this is just cruel, everything other museum is closed Monday's. The internet is filled with people who went there on Wednesday and were disappointed, and that was almost me.
What this means in the grand scheme of things is I will have to go hiking again tomorrow and go to the museum on Thursday. So now I am glad all the hikes around here are a bit shorter.
This is all I could find in the Katamachi area. I noticed in Kanazawa the busy part of the city was also called Katamachi. I just looked this up and it is not a word like Shotengai or Ginza, it is just a coincidence that they are named the same thing. Also the Fukui town website describes Fukui Katamachi as "Fukui City’s main center for nightlife is the Katamachi neighbourhood, a few minutes away from Fukui Station by foot. Katamachi is densely packed with some 450 bars and restaurants, with a lively yet approachable atmosphere."
Yeah, not anymore.
I retreated to the rainbow night shrine.
From the shrine, the blue hue of castle walls caught my eye. I headed straight back to the historic bridge.
Peak blueness.
Here is tonight's random street shot... right near the station, not in Katamachi.
Back at the station now and we have another animatronic dinosaur, with the concert hall sphere behind it. That building also has 2 levels of restaurants.
So I went up to near the sphere and had soba and a schnitzel. Pretty good it was too. A bit pricey but that was mainly for the tiny cold mushrooms on top of the cold soba. I might die from mushroom poisoning.
Something different for my last pic, you know how they tell you not to put cotton tip things in your ears? Japan is on a different level and invents new ridiculous things to shove into your ears.
Now I must work out how to get to my hike tomorrow. I think a bus is involved...