Then I took another ferry from Okunoshima back to mainland, the small place of Tadanoumi, where I was supposed to take a train back to Mihara again, to catch a bullet train to Hiroshima. My trip was very tightly scheduled, so it almost fell apart when I realized that there were no trains running on the coastal line, and buses were used instead; their schedule, however, threatened to derail my plan for the rest of the day. So, I took a cab for a nearby