Mount Washu

**Three viewpoints, and only one of them needs effort.** The second deck is at the car park. The summit is ten minutes up and is where the fifty-odd islands separate out properly. **Sunset, and stay for the bridge lights.** The Seto Ohashi is lit after dark and the gap between the sun going and the lights coming up is the best fifteen minutes. **The bridge is a road and railway together.** Trains run on the lower deck, which is visible from up here and is the detail most photographs miss. **Shimotsui below is a working port.** The old town at the foot of the hill was the crossing point to Shikoku before the bridge and still has its wooden shipping agents' houses and a tako-meshi octopus rice trade. **Kojima is denim.** The jeans street is nearby and is where most of Japan's denim is made, which pairs oddly and well with an afternoon on the headland.