After Mother Farm and the Minshuku we took a drive around the bottom of Chiba Prefecture and headed up to visit Kamogawa Sea World. As we approached the place we came upon a traffic jam of biblical proportions. Every parking lot was filled and we decided to give up on Sea World and save that place for another day.
Instead we headed up the coast to a small marine park in Katsuura. This had a great little beach where my daughter could roll up her jeans and get her feet wet. There was also a long pier that took you out over the ocean. At the bottom of the tower in the ocean you could go down and see all the fish coming to the windows to see who was there. My daughter had a ball.
Also, on the road on the way to Katsuura we stopped at a roadway station that had quite allot of carp wind socks. This is known as "Koi Nobori" for the boys festival celebrated this time of year. Every house with a boy is supposed to fly these on a pole outside their house. Fishing villages in Japan usually have the biggest displays and look spectacular flying in the wind near the ocean.
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