Takamatsu

I got to ride on a double decker train carriage (at the bottom sadly)

As a result the photos of the bridge over to the south Island weren't great.
I'll come back to this on the way back.

Welcome!

Space cat was sitting on top of the building across the road from my hotel.

Most Japanese crosswalks have a series of colored dots that count down the change of the lights

Takamatsu had numbers that updated every 5 seconds.
My favorite part of this was that the last 5 seconds was incredibly innacurate.
(eg. it would go "15" -> 5 seconds pass -> "10" -> 5 seconds pass -> "5" -> about a second and a half at most passes -> [light changes to green])

Takamatsu has a garden that isn't perfect

It was pretty miserable weather the day I was there

The south half of the garden had a recommended path to follow

Apricot trees flowering

Fish

Ducks

A man made waterfall that was created for the visit of the emperor a couple of hundred years back

It started raining

A mossy river bed

A view from a hill across part of the south part of the garden

There were a bunch of hills to view parts of the garden from

A shaded area the fish liked to congregate (they may also get fed here?)

There are names for each of the types of fish pattern

Another hill

The pigeons here aren't particularly scared of people

A duck blind from when the local lord used the garden to hunt ducks

The north side's Apricot grove

Lotus pool

A pair of trees in a field

The duck area

The south end of the north part's duck area

The garden has a small museum

the garden has 8 stamps and a special sheet to collect them all on

inside the museum

just outside the garden

Takamatsu castle is a bit of a trek from the garden

A fish food gatcha machine

food goes in here

and pours out the end of this tube

Takamatsu castle is mostly some remnants and a moat

not much up here but some stones

the moat is quite nice though

and has some fish in it

An outlying gate

and a small castle garden

flowers near the train station

The nearby chemical plant has a Ferris wheel

There is a building near the station with a French restaurant on the 30th floor along with a viewing window