We caught the train to Yoshonogarikoen Historical Park, which is part way between Nagasaki and Osaka. The park is an archeological site and contains a reconstructed village of Yayoi period, 3rd century BC to 3rd century AD. Just as May was buying our entry tickets a volunteer guide came up to us and started chatting. He first asked where we were from, and upon hearing Canada said he was in Vancouver and Victoria last year. He'd been in San Francisco a couple of years earlier, and was a helicopter pilot. By this time he was our friend, and when May came he carried on giving us our tour (I think he wanted to practice his English). Sometimes he spoke to us in English, and sometimes he spoke to May in Japanese and she translated, but the two together ended up giving us a very good tour of the reconstructed village. So good that we ran out of time to see the burial grounds. We did look at their little museum and saw the huge pottery jars they buried people in.
After a lunch at the cafe in the park we cabbed back to the station and carried on to Osaka.
At Osaka May left us (she had a high school mini-reunion tonight) and Mike (the owner, who had been our van driver) took us to the hotel. He later met us and took us for dinner at a very nice meal, a little more modern Japanese cooking than the keisiki meals we have had. This time the rice was flavoured!
When we check out of the hotel tomorrow we are on our own again - we've got train tickets back to Tokyo tomorrow afternoon.
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