Sad to leave Yakage and our inn.  Today we check out and take a series of trains North to the other coast and Matsue.

Stop in Kurashiki to wait for our Express train.    The station has some beautiful areas (plus an Old Navy!):

  
  

  
  
Update from Lauren:  this part of the station used to be a Hans Christian Anderson theme park!

I don’t understand these body parts:

The public bathrooms sometimes provide these practical, yet somehow off-putting ‘baby holders’.