From Kansai International Airport in Osaka, a limousine bus head straight to Takamatsu port took about 3 hours and a half. It was a pleasant day, sunny, and bright blue sky, to travel anywhere. A ferry from Takamatsu port to Naoshima's Miyanoura port took 50 mins, a little bit long since it was a big ferry that carried cars and vehicles as well. I didn't noticed that it was already 50 mins. Time passed in a blink while all of us were enjoying the weather and the scene from the boat deck.
Arriving at Miyanoura port's ferry terminal, designed by Japanese architect, SANAA, was so nice. I am a big fan of SANAA (Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa), their super slim and sleek architectures always fascinated me in someway. The ferry terminal, from the afar boat deck, is just a thin horizontal line cutting the sky from the ground, if you don't take a good look you might couldn't see there's a roof of the terminal floating in the air.
It was a terminal for ferry's arrival and departure, and a bus terminal for going around the island too. The facilities and circulation are simple enough to be easily understood. The round columns in white are so thin that make me in awe of it. But there's also the wall-bearing structure hiding behind the reflected cladded materials too.
There was a music festival being held on that day, so I was kinda surprised to see numbers of people gathering in the lawn in front of the terminal. Young people were enjoying the mini concert and children were playing inside and around Yoyoi Kusuma's red dot pumpkin sculpture nearby.
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