Day 6 - Kumamoto.... Ming Chong

We visited the Kumamoto city recycling plaza in the morning. Even when walking on the streets, dustbin for different type of materials is pretty visible. The dustbins are separated into plastics, cans, papers and metals. Japanese will sort out their rubbish and throw it away accordingly. Residents of Kyushu show their part in recycling by bringing their unwanted materials to the recycle plaza instead of throwing them away.

Come to think of it, as a Singaporean, how do we show our part in recycling? Have we been putting enough effort in recycling?

Portait made by bottle caps

Same old saying, ''Reduce, Recycle, Reuse''
Personally, I don't think Singaporeans are really taking this matter seriously. In Singapore, when I see recycling boxes, I see rubbish of different kind of materials inside where it is only for 'CANS'. We need to work on that.

We went onto Kumamoto Castle(熊本城). It is considered one of the three premiere castles in Japan, along with Nagoya and Osaka. It was drizzling when we reached the castle, thus it was quite difficult to capture a lot of pictures.

Kumamoto Castle was originally built by Kato Kiyomasa in 1607. After seven years of construction, the Kumamoto Castle displayed a brilliant architectural statement, exhibiting highly advanced engineering, superb masonry and mastery of flood control and defense. The castle was besieged during the Satsuma rebellion, and was sacked and burned after a 53-day siege

The unscalable J-shaped stonewalls and wooden overhangs, designed to repel the ninja, making the castle more interesting.

Kumamoto castle in the rain.

Posted by : Ming Chong