Once upon an adventure in Japan the Ellis Family set out for a well traversed path for a place called Shipwreck beach. The directions we chose, and trusted, were horribly, horribly wrong. We had heard that the trip should have taken no more than an hour, so when we hit the 2.5 hour mark we knew we were nowhere near the right place. Instead of coming home we decided to stop at a Japanese rest stop, go potty and regroup. When the boys finished (cause you know we are faster) we decided to look at the racks of flyers, all in Kanji. Then Marshall made an amazing discovery. On the back of a DoCoMo (cell phone company) flyer was a map of the entire prefecture (like a large County). It was all in Kanji, but it showed where we were at that moment. The highway system was on there, and we knew what highway we were on, and found the one where we were going. Yay Marshall!!!!!
After a little over an hour, we arrived at the parking area for the beach. We walked for about a mile and a half, picking up sea glass, neat pieces of wood and stone and eventually got to the shipwrecks that the beach is named for.
We have been back a couple of times and always find or see something new. We will go back several more times before we depart Japan and will certainly remember this as one of our favorite places in this amazing country.
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