Today was our first shoot day. We started off with breakfast at the hotel, then made a quick stop at the Kayotei Inn, a Japanese traditional style inn that Jiro, one of our guides, manages. We stopped there to use their wireless internet. We would have stayed there overnight the night before, but they are just finishing up some renovations, so it wasn't quite ready for us. The inn was beautiful though, and the traditional Japanese hospitality was amazing. We were there just long enough to check e-mail though, and then we moved on to the shop of a guy who does lacquerware design and art. He showed us a few pieces he was working on, and they were pretty amazing. His cheapest pieces are in the hundreds of dollars. There were items for over $100,000.
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