We visited Matsue for the first time during our trip in Japan this year. Matsue is a city of about 195,000 people near the west coast of Japan, i.e. on the other side from where we’ve spent most of our time. It’s not on a shinkansen line so one reaches it by taking an express train. We took the shinkansen from Kobe to Okayama and then switched trains for the remainder of the journey to Matsue. I’ve posted a set of photos taken from the train here. Tracie took most of them; she was trying to take pictures of the numerous small farms visible from the train. Next I’ll post at least two sets of photos from Matsue, one of the castle there and one of the spectacular gardens surrounding the Adachi Museum.