When a certain prefectural governor said jakoten was "poor-looking" - walking through Matsuyama

Moving from Matsuyama Station to Matsuyama-shi Station

I haven't been able to visit Akita Prefecture for video filming yet.
I have visited on a trip. I remember eating Inaniwa udon and Hinai chicken then.
After that, I went to an Akita cuisine restaurant in Tokyo and had kiritanpo hot pot.
Indeed, Akita Prefecture has many delicious foods.

But Shikoku also has many delicious foods.
When I went to Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, I ate sea bream rice, nabeyaki udon, and ramen. I remember there were many sea bream dishes.
I remember eating jakoten occasionally, maybe because my mother's roots were in Uwajima.

What I want to say about Matsuyama is that "Iyotetsu" (Iyo Railway), used to go from JR Matsuyama Station to the city center, uses its own transportation IC card that's not compatible with Suica and others.
I googled just to be sure, and it seems it will be usable from March 2024. Good news.

However, like Matsuyama, it's common in castle towns for the main station and city center to be separated.
That's both a good point and an inconvenient point.

Matsuyama Castle is quite high up

It's a castle built after the Battle of Sekigahara. Although it's a hilltop castle, it's at a fairly high elevation.
I filmed a video from Matsuyama-shi Station through the shopping street to Matsuyama Castle, and I was completely out of breath.
But the view is excellent. Also, if you watch the video, you'll see the cherry blossoms are incredibly beautiful.

The previous video was filmed during the day, but this one was filmed at night.
It was during the COVID-19 pandemic, so there were few people.
But the large arcade shopping street is nice, isn't it?
I feel like many cities in western Japan have large arcade shopping streets in their city centers.
You can move all the way to near the castle without getting wet in the rain.

COVID-19 has calmed down for now, so I want to visit again and eat jakoten.