Sightseeing in Sado Island

I had to work at Niigata on Thursday and Friday, I went to Sado Island on Saturday.
We had to go to the Island by ship.
There are two course, one is a high speed ship ( which takes only an hour by 500yen) and other is a car ferry ( which takes two hours and twenty minuites by 2060 yen).
Because I was lonely and I had no money and many hours, I used cheap one.

I rested to a Youth Hostel on Friday night.


Sado Island is truly large, it was impossible to sightsee there by a walk.
It was usually used a sightseeing bus, but the riding point is very far from the Youth Hostel.

I used traffic bus instead of the sightseeing bus.
But the bus drove a little times.
I made severe plans, and I went sightseeing at AM 6:40.
Nobody rode the bus on Saturday morning.

At first, I went Senkaku sea shore.
There are famous sea shore with rocks.
The bus went through the sea shore which is a famous legend of Anju and Zushioh.


It was the Senkaku sea shore.
The view from the sightseeing ships was most beautiful, but it was rainy and windy.
The waves were too high to stop the ships.
I couldn't move at the edge of the land.

So I ate a breakfast.

Next, I went to a famous and old gold mine.
It wasn't activate, it was the sightseeing spot.
A robot acts in the show case.


I was surprised with digging the mines by hand.
It is like ant's house.


It was the digging from the mountain top to get gold.

Especially the right image shows the separated mountain by digging.

After gold mines, I went watching last Japanese Toki.
She was thirty years old.(She have already been dead.)
The environment was best to give no pleasure.
The best environment for wild birds means traffic wasn't convinient.
I walked 3km from the bus stop.
It rained very hard...
A left image is the last male Toki, midori, and a right one is Kin through the television.


I finished sightseeing Sado Island.
I rode a ship started at 15:00 from Sado, and I arrived at Niigata on 17:30.
And I rode a Shin-kan-sen from Niigata to Tokyo.
I went back home till 22:00.
When I arrived at my home, I had only 230 yen.

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