Light-up at Matsuyama Castle and a vegetable restaurant "SOH SOH"

[Introduction]

I traveled to Matsuyama, the capital of Ehime Prefecture, for 4 days and 3 nights. The main purpose of this trip was to watch Yuru-chara Grand Prix 2016 on the last 2 days. My favorite Milan, which is the mascot character of Ehime Prefecture, did not participate in the contest, but entertained other local mascot characters and the audience as a host of the event with Barysan, Imabari city’s mascot character. I also participated in a PR event for the Grand Prix and did some sightseeing. In this article, I will write about light-up at Matsuyama Castle and a vegetable restaurant “SOH SOH” as part of Day 2.

[Visit Places (series of articles)]
* Day 1 (1) Yuru-chara Grand Prix PR event 1 (Okaido and Gintengai)
* Day 1 (2) Yuru-chara Grand Prix PR event 2 (Ropeway street and Dogo Onsen)
* Day 1 (3) Dogo Onsen (Light up)
* Day 2 (1) Mican Center at Ehime prefectural government office
* Day 2 (2) Ninomaru Historical Garden and Matsuyama Castle
* Day 2 (3) Matsuyama Castle (Light up) [This article]
* Day 3 (1) Yuru-chara Grand Prix 2016 1st day part 1
* Day 3 (2) Yuru-chara Grand Prix 2016 1st day part 2
* Day 3 (3) Okaido (Bansuiso Villa and Saka no Ue no Kumo Museum etc.)
* Day 4 (1) Yuru-chara Grand Prix 2016 2nd day part 1
* Day 4 (2) Yuru-chara Grand Prix 2016 2nd day part 2
* Day 4 (3) Matsuyama City Station (Tram, Matsuchika Town etc.)

[Travel Date]
2016.11.03-06

[Main Part]

Following the previous post, I will continue to go around Matsuyama Castle. While the castle tower is closed in the evening, Honmaru square is open until 9 p.m. Matsuyama Castle is lighted up every night, so I decided to watch it.

Evening view at Matsuyama Castle

To begin with, I watched evening view around sunset. Thanks to desirable conditions, I was able to take good photos of sunset.

Here it is.

Visitors around me looked at sunset admiringly. This was one of the best sunset I have ever seen for several years along with the sunset at Shimonada station (see the related artcile).

This was a view of Matsuyama city.

I took some silhouette photos of Matsuyama Castle.

Here are normal photos of Matsuyama Castle.

Night view at Matsuyama Castle

Now the sun went down and the light-up started.

Yoshiaki-kun, the mascot character of Matsuyama Castle.

View of Matsuyama city.

Light-up of Matsuyama Castle.

Around castle tower.

Ferris wheel.

Then, I left Matsuyama Castle.

Dinner at vegetable restaurant “SOHSOH”

Now I returned to Ropeway street.

The statue of Yoshiaki Kato, the first lord of Matsuyama Castle.

I had a dinner at a vegetable restaurant “SOHSOH” on Ropeway street.

The concept of this restaurant is “we will serve vegetables as much as possible”.

In the restaurant.

There were a variety of food menu and I ordered a set meal that included brown rice, salad, tofu hamburger and natto with avocado.

I was satisfied with the resrautant for its food and good service.

After dinner, I moved back to the hotel and the second day of my trip was over.

[Closing]

That’s it for the article about light-up at Matsuyama Castle as part of Day 2. This time, the light-up at Matsuyama Castle was a normal one, but I heard there were special versions sometimes, so I would like to watch it in the future 🙂

In the next article, I will write about the 1st day of Yuru-chara Grand Prix 2016.

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