Day 4 - Shodoshima

SUNRISE !

We are the first foreign flagged vessel EVER to visit. The locals roll out the red carpet.

We visit a soy sauce brewery. They make a tasty soy and prove it by serving it on ice cream. We are surprised to find the tops of the ancient handmade barrels are open and there is not liquid inside but a fermenting solid.

This is the master brewer. He also handmakes the replacement barrels in the way passed down by generations.

Soy sauce on ice cream, who'd of thunk it? Surprisingly good.

There is a gondola ride which proves useless on this overcast and hazy day. We can see mountains, gorges which some elected to hike. From the top we're told we can see the ship. They call a gondola, or in the case a cable car, a "ropeway".