Saturday, 14 April 2012

Day 12: Trains, trains and er.. trains.


Most of today was spent sat on train between Hiroshima and Hakone nation park, where you find us now. I'm afraid there is nothing much else to report. We arrived at the Ryokan we are staying about 3:30pm, having left the hotel in Hiroshima 6 hours earlier.

Rolf is pictured next to one of the Shinkansen (bullet) trains we caught today from Osaka in this direction.

(Photo to follow, no internet connection in the room)

Dinner this evening was a set menu from the residence. The starters including octupus tenticles and a small fish were left to one side. Whereas they were referred to on the menu as an appetizer, they were quite the opposite in my book. At least, unlike the Koreans, the Japanese like their seafood dead! The deep fried conga eel tasted quite like haddock from a chippy, which pleased me a little, seeing as they are the ugliest things I think I've seen in an aquarium.

Luckily there was enough other foods so that Emily could eat a full meal too.

Tomorrow will be a fuller day of doing things. I'm not sure you really want to hear about the book I'm reading or the Professor Layton game I finished while travelling.

Enough for now.

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