{"id":1919,"date":"2025-04-25T23:03:24","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T23:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aerowalsh.com\/cr\/?p=1919"},"modified":"2025-04-25T23:03:34","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T23:03:34","slug":"fri-25th-april-hike-hachinohe-to-tanesashikaigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cr.aerowalsh.com\/?p=1919","title":{"rendered":"Fri 25th April – Hike (Hachinohe to Tanesashikaigan)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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9km hike scheduled today, with a small (but infrequent) train ride from the hotel at the beginning and the end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today is described as leisurely in the Auswalk booklet. Given that Hachinohe is famed (maybe) for having the longest daylight hours in Japan, and given we have an easy day of walking ahead, we get up at 5.30am and go to a small fish market a few train stops away before breakfast at the hotel. We have a whale of a time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In terms of today’s walk, I feel that the ‘leisurely’ description is apt. It is extremely well marked, relatively flat walking. There’s plenty of time for activities along the way. We visit a marine science museum and a bird shrine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the hike, Declan definitely does not have a sleep and we watch an episode of Jury Duty on the iPad. Then we go out and hit the town before heading to bed at 8.30pm. Early start and longer walk tomorrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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DW: The suspiciously red meat is indeed whale sashimi (likely Minke). A quick google translate of the label described it as “recommended, soft but not mushy”. In another shop we saw a slab of equally red meat that was too physically large to come from any fish I know of.
CR: Despite having breakfast to look forward to at the hotel, we sneak in a small tray of salmon sashimi. Very tasty. Fish here is soooo cheap. You can get a whole massive octopus for A$30, or quite a big fillet of salmon sashimi for A$13. Give a cat A$100 to spend in here and they’d have a purr-fect time.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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DW: There were dozens of small fish and produce shops around the main market. Most of these were closed, but a number were open and in trade with people wandering around. I wonder if the shops are tied to specific fishing boats or they are middlemen. The fact that most were shut and others all had random mixed selections makes me think the former.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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CR: Boyfriend last seen 25th April.
DW: I would like to report as of 24th April I am of sound mind and health. I suspect my girlfriend may be plotting something, if I go missing in the next few days it is not a coincidence.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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DW: Kaubishma Shrine is the start of the walk. During Spring it is roosting season for the migratory Black Tailed Gulls. There are apparently 30,000 in this area and I believe it. They nest everywhere including in the middle of the footpath in the shrine.
CR: There is a stand filled with umbrellas free for borrowing. Can you imagine why you might need an umbrella to traverse bird island?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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DW: Halfway up you can see a man gainfully employed to continuously sweep the stairs of gull attempts at roosting. It is a sisyphean task of one man against ten thousand gulls with an insanely strong roost instinct.
CR: This man had been hardened over the years and forgoes the umbrella. Raincoat is his only protection against the birds.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n