Following my trip to the Sakuramatsuri, on Sunday I got up early for a 9am outing with KT-san to the town of Hita, in Ōita prefecture (next door to Fukuoka). It's about thirty miles away, so we had to take two trains. We could have opted for the shinkansen, but that would have roughly quintupled the cost!
Plans developed a slight hitch when we were too deeply engrossed in conversation to notice we'd reached and then left the city of Kurume (remember that one?) where we should have changed train.
About half an hour later, we realised what was up, hopped off the train, managed to catch a return train by the skin of our teeth, and eventually made our way successfully to Hita.
