Matsue Vogel Park is a flower and bird paradise and located just outside the Matsue Vogel park station on the Ichibata railway line.
There was a discounted price for tourist when you showed your passport. Basically, it’s a huge place with a large greenhouse with many variety of birds and flowers. Besides that, they also have several bird shows and a penguin walk parade at certain timings. It also have a few restaurants and eateries, together with a big viewing tower on top of a hill. The place was about 32 hectares big, and on the day we arrived, the park probably have less than 50 visitors as it’s a weekday and off peak season. Woohoo~ felt like we have the whole place to ourselves.
The first show we need to catch is the penguin stroll at 10.30am.
The penguins were kept in this area inside a greenhouse. Close to 10.30am, the keeper would come in and put a ribbon around their neck and carried each out of the enclosure.
Thus began their stroll from one end of the greenhouse to the other end. Think the whole stroll took less than 10 mins and the keeper had to use the broom to guide them along. Haha...it’s actually v cute when they walked with the big ribbon with a bell around their neck.
Check out the video I took.
For lunch, it’s soba at a soba restaurant inside the park. Cheap and yummy.
Guess what, we were the only customers around during lunchtime.
After that, we managed to catch 2 more bird show.
One of which was held inside another glass house.
The other bird show was held outdoor.
Noticed that they kept making the birds flew over our heads. Bit scary coz I’m afraid they might pooped over my head.
Bought bird food to feed the duckies and swans in the pond.
These two owls are a couple.
The owls in this place are cageless.
But their legs are tied to the stand they were standing on.
This owl looked v grouchy and seemed to get out of the wrong side of bed...haha...and it makes a ‘arggg’ kind of sound every 30 seconds.
Think we left around noon time and went to our next destination. Like how the seats of the train were facing the shinji lake on the way to Matsue-Shinjiko-Onsen station. Besides that, it was heated and quiet inside the train.
Matsue Castle was about 20mins walk from Matsue-Shinjiko-Onsen station. It was one of the original 12 castles left in Japan today. Luckily for us, it’s not as crowded as Himeji Castle.
The cherry blossoms were in the falling off stage and the ground were pink from the fallen petals.
Similar as Himeji, we need to take off our shoes and carry them inside a plastic bag inside the castle as the flooring were made of the original wood.
Haha....souvenir from Matsue Castle.
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