9 November 2025
Damp reflections
Takamatsu station area
More damp roads, time for more damp reflections.
Tonight I headed back to the station area, primarily to do reconnaissance for how to get to where I am going to tomorrow (IC card, cash, fax and wax seal? I still don't know), but also because I noticed when I arrived yesterday that there are a lot of eating and shopping places to gawk at near the station.
In the general vicinity is a convention centre and a dark sporting stadium of some description.
The station itself is not a bullet train station, but it mainly serves a purpose of how to connect to a bullet train at Okayama after going over the big train bridge connecting the mainland, which I will do in a couple of days time. If however you are taking a train line to somewhere other than the mainland, there is very little info available, but I think where I am going to tomorrow is the last station in the current slowly expanding IC card zone on Shikoku.
Here is Takamatsu JR station. The actual JR Takamatsu sign is strangely unlit.
Here is the convention centre with the cylindrical closed off observation deck. I tried to get up there but I could not.
Nearby, and lights in trees. It is almost illegal to have trees in Japan without lights in them.
I decided to explore further within this compound. There are a few restaurants and tourist group extorting stores.
A not very busy bus station area, with a lot of nice reflections.
And for dinner, soba, with fried tofu, and beef on rice. So noodles AND rice. Hmm. No vegetables of course, the Japanese are terrified of them.
Night castle. I hand held this!
Tomorrow is a hiking day, I have changed to a shorter hike as I will have to do 2 days of hiking in a row to catch up due to the rain today. There will be very famous shrines and probably a lot of staircases.