Miyako welcomed us at 7:30 am with food trucks and a market of local artists with handcrafted goods. The crew and passengers liked the food trucks along with calligraphy artists providing free Kanji names drawn on panels suitable for saving.
Taiko drummers served as our alarm clock this morning.
Downtown Miyako fourteen years after the fourth most powerful earthquake (since seismography began in 1900) struck in 2011, triggering the devastating tsunami with waves as high as 160 feet and flood water reaching 6 miles inland, killing nearly 20,000 people. The residents had only 8-10 minutes of warning.
Jerome's Restaurant for lunch today as we took the shuttle to town and explored on our own.
Sloppy American here- it was hot in there, Most Japanese restaurants serve multiple dishes in addition to what is ordered. I chose fried oysters with rice. Also included was salad, miso soup, pickled vegetables and green tea.
Cold Japanese lager on draft washed it down.
Miyako Fish and Vegetable Market included a bakery where we each slowly digested luscious strawberry mochi- a Japanese treasure.
Across the street from the market, we discovered a refreshment cafe specializing in Japanese Motcha Tea. We shared this motcha shaved ice and a motcha frappe. Delightful dessert and refreshing.
We found our way back to the wharf where it was a county fair type atmosphere created by Miyako for the Seven Seas Mariner community. Kanji script names for our granddaughters was a long line but worth waiting for the artistic results.
Drum, flutes, bells and sword dancers serenaded us as we threw off the bowlines and............................
sailed into the sunset.
“In life, it’s not where you go. It’s who you travel with.” — Charles M. Schulz
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