After leaving Nagasaki I spent nearly a full day hitchhiking, and ferry riding to reach my destination of Kumamoto. A man and his aunt graciously pulled over to give me a ride. The dude who picked me up had just returned from 5 years of studying in Spain. We spent our time interlanguage chatting between Japanese, English, and Spanish. His semi-senile aunt in the back seat had no idea what was going on.
Arriving in Kumamoto, I strolled into a tiny pub/restaurant and met some new friends.
My new Kumamoto gang. Nakamura-San (on the right) has bought my drinks at the same tiny pub for the past 3 nights!
The day: I was off to see the 3rd largest castle in Japan, Kumamoto castle. I also came back at night to check out the night view with a few peeps from my hostel. Here are the pics:
Kumamoto Castle
Samurai’s still hang out at the castle. He was cracking jokes about the whitey (me) to the crowd.
Kamikaze Canuck 
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Awesome! Where did you go after Nagasaki?
After Nagasaki, I went to Hiroshima, Kamakura and Yokohama. Now I’m in Tokyo but Sunday I will return to Spain!! I loved Aso, I will go when I will return to Japan!! 🙂
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