With some pride I am able to say that I got out of bed this morning. Japan is great but I don’t see myself living here in the same way I see myself living in Italy. Everything is so small and delicate. I’m convinced I’m going to do terrible damage to a tatami mat, or a delicate paper doorway. I was terrified of having a glass of wine in the hotel room for fear of spilling even a drop on the precious matting. All in all however Takayama was a great success…a most fabulous town that really imbibed us with the feeling of being in Japan.
Anyway we were up and off to the train station and onto the train headed for Kanazawa. Everything seems to go so smoothly. We change trains and everything connects and delivers us where we want to go in perfect time. We then buy our tickets for the next stage of our journey before we leave the station and head for the next hotel. We have a slightly posher hotel here with several particularly wonderful assets: 1. The bed is off the ground. 2. Rose and I have separate rooms which particularly pleases Rosa 3. Over the road from the wonderful, buzzing market and 4. great views over Kanasawa.
So we set off to the market thinking we’d get some yummy street food for lunch but the market was full to the brim of fish and all the food on sale was fish. Divine for me but definitely not suitable for Rose. We wondered around there for a while, enjoying the atmosphere. In fact I must say it was more enjoyable for me that the Tsukiji Market in Tokyo because of the interaction with the vendors. There were the biggest oysters I’ve ever seen and I so wanted one. The were serving them either boiled or sashimi-style. The only thing that stopped me was that they were $10 each!! Anyway that was all fun. We then went back to the hotel for a couple of hours time out which was nice. Then out to dinner to a restaurant in the market area. It was highly recommended by LPG and was Chinese…the Sentuo Madarin Rest. Food OK but a let down for me after the fabulous Japanese food we’ve been loving so much.
Then back to the hotel (its just over the road so very easy) to finely tune our bookings as we go forward to Hiroshima and Kyoto and back to Tokyo.
So…an early night to catch up on some sleep!!!