The morning I left Kyoto, my first task was to lighten my load. I had decided to use takkyubin, the (very affordable) Japanese luggage-forwarding service, to send my larger suitcase on ahead of my to Takamatsu, so I didn’t have to spend the next two days lugging it on and off trains and ferries. The young man staffing the hotel desk helped me fill out … Continue reading Day 8: Hiroshima and Miyajima