Maki and Jun arrived at a small station near the sea.

They wanted to visit a famous lighthouse, but the map on Jun's phone stopped working.

Beside the gate, they found an old ticket machine. It looked like a round compass.

"Maybe it still works," Maki said.

Jun pressed the cheapest button. The machine printed a blue ticket with no station name.

Instead, one sentence appeared on the ticket: Go where the wind smells sweet.

"That is not helpful," Jun said.

Maki laughed and pointed toward a narrow street. "I smell bread."

They followed the smell and found a tiny bakery. An old woman there gave them directions to the lighthouse.

She also gave them two warm rolls for the road.

When they reached the hill, the lighthouse was shining in the evening sun.

Jun looked at the strange ticket again.

"The machine did not send us the shortest way," he said.

Maki took a bite of bread. "No. It sent us the better way."