Monday, January 24, 2022

Tokyo Kyusyu Ferry

We moved from Yokosuka to Sasebo by boat.  We packed up our car with what we had left (less than one carryon per person, suitcases did not fit in the car with all of us and our computer and backpacks) and drove it onto a ferry that left right in Yokosuka.
The ferry was 21 hours long and we got off about 2 /1/2 hours from the base in Sasebo.  With the boarding and everything the trip took about 26 hours.  

The ferry was nice though.  It was like a mini cruise ship.
We got two rooms.
There was an onsen.
The onsen was really fun.  The outside portion was freezing cold in the open air and hot in the water, which I liked.  But it was too hot/cold for some of the girls.  But the view was amazing.  Just ocean and sky for as far as I could see.
About half the kids felt a little motion sickness.  Bob and I felt totally fine though.  The ship was definitely rocking.
There was a restaurant that we ate our meals at.

Bob ordered the pizza.  Those white things have eyes.  It was kind of funny because Tucker and I knew what it was from the picture but Bob thought it was going to be cheese on top.

They even had a theater room.  We watched Sing 2 with Japanese subtitles.  They were nice and put it in English for us.  We were only about half the people in the room.
The ship was not full at all.  Maybe half capacity?  And out of the people on the ship it was mostly older Japanese people.  No one seemed like they knew English at all.  Except for the one baby I saw during boarding I think our kids were the only ones on the ship.

There was a small exercise room.
There was even a small elevator inside to go between the three floors.  The whole thing was really nice.  But it took a very long time.  The time on the ship went by quickly, but we couldn't board until 11 P.M. and then we got off around 10 P.M. the next night.  So it was close to one A.M. when we made it to our hotel in Sasebo.

The trip was semi-fun.  I'm not convinced it was better than driving but I think many people would like it better.  And I'm happy I got the experience.  We could have made the drive in 15.5 hours without stops and left in the morning and arrived the same night. 

1 comment:

Jacquelyn said...

suitcases "did" not fit. elevator "to go"

What are the white things with eyes?