Adventures in Japan

Tokyo a Go Go

It was still snowing when we awoke the next day. It snowed during our coffee/breakfast, giving us something to focus on other than the fact that we had spent the night previous karaokeing long past any sane hour.

It snowed as we boarded the Shinkansen. It snowed all the way to Osaka. But not in Osaka. Osaka remained spookily snow free.

Before I forget, I should mention that while Nate Kim and Trev all got to sit together, I sat across the aisle with a sweet old lady. She was in her 80's. She gave us all oranges. We chatted as best we could given our utter lack of skill in each other's languages. She knew her ABC and 123s, but that was about it and I know my ichi ni sans and two of their alphabets, but those kanji man, they defeat me. Anyhoo... she was cute.

The train stopped in Osaka but we stayed on board. We were bound for Tokyo, you see. Also bound for Tokyo: Ben.

He found us straight away and gave us beers. Nate and Kim stayed in their seats and slept whilst Trev and I joined Ben for a walkabout. We walked through various cars and carriages, stopping and loitering near restrooms and beer machines. Ben knew where the beer machines were. We looked out the window and admired the white landscape. The snow started up again just outside Osaka.

It was realy purdy. We also snapped some pics of Mount Fuji as we passed it.


Not good pics, but pics none the less.


All told, we spent close to two hours standing and drinking on the bullet train. Good times...

Luckily, Carla had supplied us with some fairly detailed instructions on how to get to our hostel, so we found it without too much trouble. We also found a delicious Indian restaurant on the way there. It was both tasty and tummy testing. Nate's failed. We didn't get up to much that night, we had to get up early the next morning to look at dead fish.

Either that or we went to a bar. I can't remember (it has been three months), but just to be safe I won't blog about it until tomorrow.