Nagoya & Ise-shi

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We left Kappa Tangoku and headed for Nagoya on our way to Ise. Nothing really exciting happened here. The bullet train was cool those things go 300KMH, about 180 mph. That was neat, and it gave us a chance to write some post cards. When we were sitting at one of the many train stations we have seen there was this little girl who was probably about 4 or 5 walking with her family. She must have never really seen white people or we looked really interesting. She was staring at us as she was walking; she walked right into a metal pole. She hit it pretty hard, we heard the ding as she hit and she started to cry. Her mother and grandfather were with her, and we heard her Grandfather tell her that she should watch where she was going, her mother couldn’t stop laughing. It was pretty funny but we held in our laughs until they were out of ear shot. After that we boarded our train and left ended up in Nagoya. The train station was attached to a 9 story mall. It had 7 above ground and 2 basements. There was so much food in the basement markets it made us hungry. So we went up 8 floors to the restaurants and ate. Other than that we didn’t see much of the city and just went on our way. The Shinkansen ride ended and we arrive in time to check into our Ryokan. We check in and went for a walk. Ise Shi was very different than what we have seen so far. It seems that the city wants to preserve the architecture of the 1930s and 1940s we read a brochure that was passed out to homeowners outlining how and what they could do to the outside of their homes. The nice thing was that if they could not afford it the city would be able to help them. After we walked a good ½ hour and I filmed a little it got dark and we headed back. The Ryokan was a lot like the Onsen we stayed at. We finally got to do our laundry, it cost us 500 yen because we couldn’t figure out how to use the damn coin laundry machine. After that we passed out.

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Photos

Anpanman!
My beautiful purse that Robert bought me

Bionic drink
Robert said that this tasted like ass.

Choco pan!
Getting breakfast at Hakone bakery

In my yukata
Crossing the bridge in our ryokan

Bubbleman
A drink that tastes like bubblegum! Pay no attention to the strange diagram on the bottle

Corrokke!
A gorgeous mountain of fried goodies

Tasty
Watching a show about fish

Kastu Curry
Robert enjoying his lunch in the mall

Doing laundry
Had a little trouble here, since we couldn't read the buttons!

Tea
Tea service upon arriving at our ryokan

Tomato!
Yummy!

Delicious weiners!
I traveled 5000 miles to eat these

Yukatas
In our yukatas at the ryokan in Ise-shi