Ride in Kyushu Day 47 (31/1/19) Hinagu Port 日奈久港

Meiji National Army Disembarked Port 日奈久 官軍上陸の地

Kinparou 金波楼

Heavy rain today from morning. I change today’s schedule to much shorter destination at Minamata City. 45 km from here. The original destination was 100km away but it is not confortable to ride such long distance in heavy rain, and also, I need to fix flat tire which happened twice yesterday. Something wrong in rear tyre. So may times, that happened in this journey. I could not fined any abnormality in tyre except some small hole, but I do not think this would be a cause of problem. In any way, I fixed the flat tire replacing tyre tube. 

Hinagu is famous of old Onsen (Hot Spring) with 600 years, the oldest Onsen in Japan. Many old Onsen Ryokan (Japanese traditional hotel) were found. Bottom of picture shows very famous “Kinparou” 金波楼 with 100 year history, which was registered as national heritage.

The reason of visiting Hinagu is to visit the ocean port where Meiji Government Army disembarked to fight with Satsuma Army in Seinan Civil War. 昨日行った八代での西南戦争で述べた官軍が追加の兵を送り込み上陸した所がここだ。港は昔のままでは無いだろうから、どの様な情景だったか想像出来ないが、大型船は停泊できる様な港では無かったので、沖に停泊し、小舟で兵を陸まで運んだというので、今のような防波堤もなく、砂浜だったのではと勝手に想像している。官軍は上陸し、一気に八代まで行軍し、占領したという。八代までは僅か10キロなので、2時間ほどの距離だ。

After visiting Hinagu, I went back to ride to today’s destination Minamata, there are two mountain passes to reach there. Still heavy rain continues.

I was almost there and Amakusa islands visited few days ago were seen very near. Unfortunately it is still raining and not clear. I hope tomorrow morning would be better to see Amakusa. finally I arrived at hotel Yunoji Onsen (湯の児温泉) at 5:30 before sunset.