Ome Quartet of Snow Country

Chapter 443 Trip to Matsumoto
Compared with Magome-juku, Tsumago-juku is located at the intersection of Nakasendo and Ina Street. It has developed commerce and has been much more lively and prosperous since ancient times.Nowadays, it has also attracted a larger number of tourists, with crowds of people coming from the streets to the end.

However, the overall layout of Tsumago-juku is not much different from Magome-juku, and the style is also very close, so Naruse and Naoko walked around for a while, then went to the tourist center to pick up their luggage and prepare to go to the next place.

"That seems to be the bus to the station...fast."

After getting on the bus to the station, the two got off the bus ten minutes later and walked to Minami Kiso Station a few hundred meters away to wait for the train to Matsumoto.

The journey took nearly two hours. For a long time, the tram passed through the mountains. There was nothing else but mountains and rivers along the way.So before setting off, the two went to the convenience store at the station to buy something to kill time on the road.

Naoko picked up the magazine, "In two hours, we went directly from Gifu to the hinterland of Nagano..."

"There are mountains along the way, so there isn't much to see. Otherwise, you can just stroll through it slowly."

"Yes."

After choosing for a long time, Shangzi finally found a magazine that he was more interested in and prepared to check out.

As for the few books her boyfriend brought, very subtly, none of them were to her liking.

Maybe it has something to do with the book's origin, she thought to herself.

Naruse came over and took a look, "Is one book enough? It takes two hours by car."

"That's enough. I may not be able to finish even one book... I want to rest for a while on the train."

He nodded, took the magazine and their drinks to pay.

Returning to the platform, after waiting for a while, the tram finally pulled into the station.

The Chuo Main Line extended all the way from Nagoya. Looking at the familiar tram, Naruse even suspected that it was the one they took yesterday.

There was no one in the car and there were many empty seats. The two of them sat together. Naruse put his feet against the suitcase and stopped in front of it to support the book in his hand.

Shangzi leaned on his shoulder and had no intention of reading the magazine in his hand seriously at first. After a while, he started shaking his head.

Naruse gently took away the magazine. She was startled and opened her eyes to look at him.

"Go to sleep."

She closed her eyes again, hugged his arm, and continued to sleep.

Naruse also closed the book in his hand, put it on the suitcase, and then flipped through the fashion magazines Naoko selected.

Each page contains content that he will forget when he turns to the next page, but the color pictures are large and beautiful, which is perfect for emptying his brain.

After reading for a while, my girlfriend’s head on her shoulder became heavier and heavier.

Naruse looked at her and couldn't help but yawned, feeling a little tired.

After the weather warmed up, I slept well every minute of every afternoon.

Stretching restrainedly, he put down the magazine, took out his cell phone, and looked at the photo Morimi had sent before.

Book pillow long skirt, looking at the surrounding environment, it should be inside the counter of her bookstore.

Because he didn't know what to say, he still didn't reply anything.

His intuition told him that she didn't send him the message just to recommend this book to him.

Show him the skirt... It's not like he has never seen this skirt before.

After looking at Naoko and then at the photo, Naruse clicked on it, zoomed in, then exited and deleted the message.

If you don't delete it, Shangzi will see it in the middle of the night.

She had never taken the initiative to ask him for his cell phone, but in recent nights, the frequency of her quietly checking his cell phone had become much more frequent... This was only discovered occasionally when he was not asleep.

He could only pretend that he didn't notice anything.

Looking at his girlfriend on his shoulder again, Naruse took a slow breath and looked further away.

The tram was swaying forward, and the seats in the opposite row were only occupied by people on both sides. The middle was empty, and there were no passengers. He could look out through the opposite window without restraint.

mountain forest.

Continuous mountains and forests.

There are only trees in the mountains and plains. The further the tram goes, the harder it is to see traces of human activities.

Occasionally, the field of vision suddenly becomes wider, which means we are about to arrive at the station.However, deep in the mountains, the stations are far apart, and the tram only stops for a long time.

Even after parking, few people got on the platform, and the seat opposite Naruse was always empty.

ding ding ding-

"Next stop, Kuramoto——"

After a brief stop, the tram started again.

Naruse looked back at the car window behind him. He saw an express lane almost parallel to the tram tracks. On the other side of the lane was a large white river beach.

He twisted his neck and looked for a while, until he could no longer see the river beach, and then he looked away.

He actually liked this moment very much.

Sitting in the car on his way to the next place, he could do nothing except wait for the transportation vehicle under him to take him to his destination. However, he was not pressed for time and the waiting was leisurely.

Because he was doing something, he had nothing to do. To be precise, what he liked was the feeling of just being lazy.

Rather than going to bed, he might be able to relax more at this time.Hikaru should also like this moment...

When he thought of her, he recalled the kiss on his face when he parted.

Naruse took a breath.

She must have just acted on a whim and had no further plans...he hoped that was the case.

Although her thoughts about him were not obvious, it was not something difficult to discover after all. He had already noticed it.

It's just that she is surprisingly more restrained than Morimi and Haixing. Perhaps it's because she cares about Naoko's thoughts and has never revealed that she likes him.

——Is this goodbye kiss a preview of what she plans to do?

Stirred by the idea that suddenly popped up in his mind, Naruse became a little more awake.

"Kuramoto—Kuramoto is here—"

"Well……"

Naoko turned her head on his shoulder and continued to sleep.

Holding her hand, Naruse leaned his head back, closed his eyes, and tried to clear away distracting thoughts.

Let’s talk about their matters after they go back...

An hour later, the train broke out of the surrounding mountains and entered Matsumoto City.

A slight shake when parking at Minamatsumoto Station woke Naruse up.

When I opened my eyes, the car was no longer as deserted as when I got on the bus, and the row opposite was almost full.

He leaned on Shangzi's shoulder, raised his head, and she looked over.

"Wake up."

"Um...Is it coming soon?"

"Come on, we've arrived at Minamimatsumoto Station. The next stop is here."

"It seems I woke up at the right time."

Naruse stretched and found that she had dragged both suitcases to her side and fixed them, so he pulled his suitcase over.

"When did Shangzi wake up?"

"It's almost time to arrive at the horse washing station."

"Xi Ma... there is a Xi Ma lodge on Zhongshan Road over there."

"Hmm, I know. Harumi was talking about it while waiting for the bus."

After sitting for too long, his body became stiff. Naruse wanted to get up and stand for a while, but there were already many people crowded in the carriage and the tram started again, so he had no choice but to give up.

"Why are there so many people on the bus?" There was even an aunt in her 50s or [-]s squeezed next to him, and she didn't mind the physical contact at all, her arms pressed tightly against his.

"It's the ones who came here." Shang Zi also whispered.

"Fortunately, it's almost here..."

"Ah."

A few minutes later, the train stopped at Matsumoto Station.

Most of the other passengers in the carriage also got off at this stop, and Naruse and Naoko also saved themselves the trouble of dragging their luggage through the crowd.

After leaving the station, the two walked to a nearby hot spring hotel.

It's past three o'clock in the afternoon, and you can check in when you arrive at the hotel.The room was on the seventh floor, and the restaurant was on the upper floor. The two went up to put their luggage, lay on the bed for a while and then went downstairs.

Most of today was spent on the road, and it was not yet four o'clock, so it was not too late. Naruse was going to visit Matsumoto Castle, which was not far away.

As one of the only twelve remaining castle castles, Matsumoto Castle was built 100 years earlier than Tsumae Castle, and its status is even more transcendent. Together with Himeji Castle, Inuyama Castle, and Hikone Castle, it is one of the four national treasures of Japan.

"If we have enough time, we can also go to Lake Biwa and see another national treasure city." Naruse said during the visit.

Naoko looked away from the black and white building in front of her, "Another one?"

"Hikone Castle. After we visited Chubu, we finally have to go back to Nagoya. It only takes less than an hour to take the Shinkansen to Hikone."

"Okay, I also want to see Lake Biwa."

"Then stay one more day and play around Lake Biwa."

"Hmm... Let's go to Kyoto for a walk?"

"Let's go to Osaka again?"

“You can also take a trip to Kobe!”

"バカ." (ba ka)

"Well……"

"Go, all go."

(End of this chapter)