Sightseeing Bus

　　The bus which was waiting for us at Oodomari harber was old, dirty and a South Korean product, and additionally the air-conditioner didn't work well. In addition, the purplish pink interior decorations made me sick.
　　As for the tour guide, he was poor at his work. I wasn't able to understand his Japanese fully. He talked about something which he saw from the bus, but when I looked at what he was explaining, the bus had already passed by. He seemed to be a leader-class interpreter there, but was downright never up to snuff. The tour guides for other buses were students who were learning Japanese in college. Hearing that, I gave a heavy sigh. The tour along the highway from Oodomari to Toyohara vanished in smoke. I was just sitting in a hard rotten seat of a second-hand bus.
　　I was moving in the bus for a total of 3 hours, but I didn't know where I visited or where the bus ran except a few tourist spots. Anyway, about an hour's drive took me to Slava square, "glory square" literally in English, at which Karafuto Shrine had been standing before 1945.

(Vocabulary)
北緯５０度以南の樺太は日本領、したがってこのブログでは日本名を使う
Karafuto (樺太)　Sakhalin サハリン
Toyohara (豊原)　Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk ユジノサハリンスク
Oodomari(大泊)　Korsakov　コルサコフ