On one of our trains, where we thought ourselves lucky to find a chair, the guy who ran in, pushing one lady out of his way and sat down beside Naomi, turned out to be a very frightening individual. A young lad, he headphones on and a look on his face that he wanted to stab everyone around him. He would mumble things to himself, but Naomi said she didn't understand what he was saying. He kept reaching into his bag for things too and then dropping them, fumbling around in there doing who knows what. The final straw was when he started scratching some scabs on his arm and they began to bleed. At that point I said time to go, and luckily we had just pulled up to a stop. We jumped out and ran back about 3 train cars and into a new one. And as an apology from karma got a nice 2 person seat!
We then noticed the guy across from us was downing alcohol he kept in a peach jar while eating some dried fish snacks. He stunk. But compared the last guy, no complaints from us!!!
Getting dark and late, we noticed at one train station where we had to transfer, we could take one train and hopefully get home about an hour faster! Well why would we not do that? So we jumped on said train.
About 30min into it we found out the end of the line was not where we thought it would be. In fact it was in some little village town on the way. From there our next train would pick us up..after a little wait..of just over 1 hour..... Oi.
So off we went, to a small concrete platform to the sound of crickets in the night. Cars on a far distant highway could be heard. About no light other than the small town (I think village is more appropriate..but it did have a road..or 2) and from the waiting room on the platform. The waiting room that had more spiders than I could count crawling around and more bugs attracted to the light than I have ever seen.
Well..let's see what we can find around here we thought, maybe some food? After all we had not had dinner yet. We headed down into the station..which was about the size of my bedroom and had no staff, as they had already gone home clearly. The station was also infested with bugs. Out the door, to a vending machine that had cobwebs covering the all the buttons. Delightful.
Down the stairs to the main road, and looking down to where most of the buildings seemed to be..tried to take a picture but the camera doesn't like the dark. Perhaps you can get a sense of the area.
Well, we had an hour and nothing to lose, so off down the road we went. Very old building after creepy old building, with nothing but closed stores or houses. For some reason..they had like 5 barbers here. This one road just went on and on..branching off nowhere. This is usually the part in the horror movie you think..what are you doing!! Go back!!
At one point we found this. A battery vending machine! I found it funny that Naomi said she had never seen one of these in her life. And judging by the wear and tear on it and the design, looks like it was probably put there long before then too. To be honest, I thought it was a good idea.
We walked past one party house, about 5 cars in front with loud piano music coming out and drunken people laughing. After that what appeared to look like a lively little road with one open shop, turned out to be holding a Hostess Club. A place where men go to drink and have woman poor them beer, sing or talk to them. Actually these are all over Japan, but why this place needed one I have no clue. Usually its young pretty ladies in there, but Naomi assumed, given the location it must be filled with old ladies.
At about that point, with the road seemingly to keep going, us getting tired and giving up on the food idea, headed back the way we came. It was a very creepy place. Quiet, to quiet.
We got back to the station and waited a good 25min or so for the train, while being eatin alive by bugs. 2 thumbs up for this place I tell ya.
After we were very, very happily back on the train it was about another hour till we finally pulled up to home port.
Starving, we went to a curry place I was dying to eat at. It's called Coco Inchibanya. Its a chain, but what great one (a point I seem to make a lot on this blog, but they are all so good!).
Rather tired, I didn't notice the flash was on, and after taking this picture, all the cooks turned confused wondering what that bright light was and where it came from. That was embarrassing. Luckily, being the foreign guy nobody said anything.
I got a veggie curry. Naomi a mushroom curry and added tomato slices. We shared a Japanese KFC salad. De-freaking-licious.
One guy a couple seats down had a bowl about the size of a large frying pan. That comes with about 800 grams of rice. He also had a nice big fat piece of deep fried pork on top. I wish I could have taken his picture. Truly my hero.
The menu was so nice. Tons of options. You can pick how much rice you want, how hot you want it, the size of the curry. Lots of other bits you can add to it too. I can't wait to go back.
After that it was a taxi ride home (they just push a button and the back door opens and closes. So cool) and then straight to bed. A long but very great trip.
The last week we have done little, just lazing, some shopping and what not. This weekend we will go to Kyoto city for 2 nights, staying with Naomi's friend. Get ready for a bunch more pics!
We might go to a castle tomorrow too, so if so pics should follow hopefully that night.
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