We had planned to go to the Horse Park, but when we got all the way out there, we found that it was closed. We don't have much luck with these sorts of things! The Horse Park is outside of Towada, and just a little bit further down the road is Lake Towada / Towadako. We decided to drive through the gorge, stop off and see some of the waterfalls, have an unusual lunch, and take a ferry ride around the lake.

We all enjoyed some ice cream and pocky! Heron is such a piggy!

The boys seemed to like the boat ride. It's almost an hour and makes a loop (round trips from Yasumiya only. The Nenokuchi ferry is only one-way.)

It was peaceful and beautiful and not nearly as sickening as our last boat tour!

All throughout the trip a lady was telling us about things over the loud speaker, but unfortunately we couldn't understand any of it. Some days I wish I was fluent in Japanese! I'm sure the lake is interesting and she had a lot of neat things to say, but we just tuned her out and took in the sights.

We drove back through the gorge on our way home and stopped for some waterfall photos. I love all the beautiful falls throughout the gorge!