Usukieah

No, YOU sucky. Oh wait that's not how it's pronounced, my bad.

So I ended up going to Usuki instead of Usa. I was told by google that it was cheaper, but I later found out by reading the prices at the station that it wasn't. Ah well.

The place was really nice. It's a very small town. Or rather, it's deceptively small. Every inch of it feels like a small town, but it's actually a pretty expansive building, just one with no buildings over two stories.

The city houses a plethora of stone Buddha statues, carved into the side of a mountain. Some of them are damaged, most of them are restored, but they're all still pretty cool. There is a main one that is about three times the size of all the other ones. The huge Buddha in Nara is still uncontested, but it's nice to see that other people gave it a shot as well, why not.

The city had a sort of odd atmosphere to it being a foreigner. Everybody stared at me. Everyone. There were white tourists I saw when I was coming into the city, but I'm pretty sure they hit the Buddha's and came back and that was the end of their stay there. I decided I'd walk back to the station. Well, rather less decided and more I missed the bus. Shut up.

It was a deceptively long walk. You couldn't tell by looking at the map. It illustrated two blocks, then a short block and a bridge. In actuality these were residential clumps, not blocks, so that short jog turned into a three hour long walk through the city. It was nice and I got to see some of the sights and run into people (people kept either greeting me or glaring at me like I was a trespasser) so that was interesting. Also go lost twice, in the aspect that I thought to myself "I'VE BEEN WALKING FOREVER. IF I TURN HERE I'LL GET THERE EVENTUALLY" and then needing to turn around 8 blocks into that attempt. Not so fun.

But the trip did end with some ice cream, and the train rides back were pleasant at least. I got some good pictures and some videos too (of rocks yay!) so I'll try to upload those tomorrow.

As for now, I am exhausted. I didn't sleep last night, and I half dozed off twice writing this. So pictures tomorrow, tonight sleep.