Day 10

03 January 2006

Dad and I also went up to Asakusa, Ginza, and Oosaki. This was at the behest of the Ishikawa’s (Dad’s sister). Asakusa would have been more interesting—except for all the people. There were people traffic police, at least that’s the best way I could describe it. They closed off a busy crossroads of people two directions at a time. They could’ve been British about it and thrown a big roundabout in the middle, but I’m glad that they had the pedestrian police there, it was pretty necessary.

Ginza is my kind of place. I would love to be able to shop there. Unfortunately, I don’t have that much money. But, I want to go back one day. It seems like a good shopping district—I think my uncle was saying that it was one of the first areas in Japan to have 100m blocks, all 8 blocks of Ginza from 1-chome to 8-chome are fully 100m. It’s an interesting experience. We had yakitori in Ginza, in what must have been in the 3rd basement of the building we were in. We also had nikujaga (potatoes and beef), a “spicy” dish, a tofu-plus-salad salad, some wine, yakiniku, and shi-o yakitori. Ooooooishi.

In ?? (Oosaki) we visited my aunt and uncle’s place. This is the aunt and uncle that are the parents of Kazuki and Chie. Chi-chan was the only one at home. We had some more food. During the night, while drinking a bit more [it sounds like all I did this day was eat and drink…maybe I did] the wall clock fell down, scaring the crap out of most people.

Tomorrow, we’re off to ?? Atami in ??? Shizuoka Prefecture for ?? On-sen [hot springs]. It should be fun!