(9.00a) Had a super quite breakfast with Eiji... he is kinda stress out to buy his gift for his friends in London... He is going home for Xmas tmr and still needa work today afternoon. Well... it's the way asian do.. ^_^ get use to it Eiji...~~~
(11.00a) Decided not to go to Asakasa with Eiji again.. instead, go to take the earlier train to Sendai :) Tokyo is really easy to travel even you dont know Japanese at all... just jump on the metro or JR.. you can go wherever you want within Japan almost, especially if you can read Chinese.
(2.18p) Arriving Sendai ^__^ Nice weather~~~ yea~~~ It was a nice journey. The train passed by a lot of old style Japanese buildings... they built the house very close to the nature and they work very well with the environment. Very much feeling they are part of the nature.
(2.30p) Obviously Sendai is a tourist spot. There were soooooo incredibly a lot of souvenir shops selling local snacks and the famous OX tong :D~~
(4.00p) The hostel is quite easy to find actually but with my heavy bag… it’s like a mission to complete really.
(5.00p) Had my first raman in Japan! Miso raman ^__^ delicious~~ it is the Japanese food I thought I would have eaten all the time in Japan~~~
(6.00p) Chill a bit in the room and walked out to town. Quite a nice 30 mins walk to town… passed through some interesting streets. And saw the people mountain people sea on the main street. Maybe similar to the xmas lights in HK haha… doesn’t sounds very interesting to say in this way :P But ya, that’s different style… all the tress on the 1km streets were warp by thousands of light. Sounds much better like this… yea~
(7.00p) Found an interesting building on the street and walked into it. It’s kinda a city hall thing showing some free exhibitions and stuff, a big art library, a mini traditional Japanese music show. And you can see it’s where all the local people would hang around. We should have more buildings like this in HK. But first thing is to make more people finding this kinda art buildings are important to them… egg first or chicken first?
(8.30p) Found a square with a lot of Japanese food and a ice-skating site in the middle. Successfully stop myself buying anything from there by convincing myself to have them tomorrow :D!!! wao~~~~ and tomorrow will have a bike with me. It would be much easier to access the site again.
(9.00p) Back to the hostel and sort out some photos and stuff.
20/12
(8.00a) Rent the bike from the hostel cost 1000Yen. Ride a bike around the city.
(8.30a) Passed by a coffee shop, the old man was preparing the shop and the coffee beans… look like he’s taking care of his baby! :D
(9.15a) Miyagi Museum. Nothing looks interesting, didn’t get in.
(10.00a) Site of Sendai Castle. It was a nice ride all the way to the site, uphill :D, a lot of trees and not too far. Basically the whole city is quite small. It’s a site where the Sendai Castle was. Nothing much left now, and they’ve built a temple for that. But it’s nice to look at the whole city from there.
(11.30a) It was a big exhibition in Sendai City Museum but quite expensive :P didn’t get in finally.
(12.00n) Ride to another side of the city and found the Zuihoden Mausoloum. It was a temple and again, needa paid like 1000Yen entrance fee and didn’t get in :D
(1.00p) 1.5 set lunch!!! The famous ox tong lunch set. 1200Yen~~~~ Super nice!!! Somehow they put something to take out a lot of typical ox tong weird taste (I don’t hate that taste actually). I love it! The texture was super soft and the taste was mild. Somehow I’ve found most of the Japanese food have mild taste. It’s just simply a BBQ ox tong + rice but already super satisfy for whole day. Happy can be very simple, especially me :D
(2.30p) City walk~~ Tried the Mister Donut! Super good!! Again the texture was nice and a mild taste. That’s very much different from American ones.
(4.00p) Back to hostel and take a nap~~~~
(6.00p) Dinner at the hostel. I’ve bought a sashimi salmon and some seaweed. Pretty nice :D and cheap..
(8.00p) Went out again to the night food market square and had a 廣島燒~~~ super stuffed!!!!
(10.00p) Hang a bit around and went back to Hostel)
I m sure I’ve missed quite a few temple or whatever tourist spot but I have had a comfortable bike riding day… :)
21/12
Gonna take 3 hours to Towada today and back to Sendai at night. So I’ve woke up quite early
(8.00p) Walked to the station from hostel. When I almost arrive the station, I found that I forgot the JR pass with me -_- and missed the train.
He is very Japanese Japanese, init?
(9.00p) Take the train hour later to Hachinohe (八戶). Change a train to三沢. It was north from Sendai, very country side and start snowing when I arrived三沢. The train station to Towada (十和田) was super old and small :D but very cool to me…
(12.30p) Arrived the Towada Art Center finally. It was quite confusing map from the station and it was snowing on the way… ~_~ Luckily I asked direction from a hotel I passed by, otherwise I must have lost. I’ve seen an installation from “ball dim por por” was building just opposite to the art centre. The Architecture of the art centre was incredibly cool! It’s a combination of few boxes like exhibition room. All of the artworks are spread around and inside the building. I’ve seen some of the artists’ works and they are all cool! One of the totally unforgettable artwork is a room with a table and 2 chairs, all painted in white. And you climb upon the table and look at the hole on top of the ceiling it was a totally different world up there… like a fairy tails environment. It’s one of the best art galleries in the world I m sure.
(3.00p) Walked back to the station and passed by a temple, a super old one. Look like it is breaking down :D, pretty cool though.
(3.30p) Had a lunch in a chain Japanese food restaurant. The steam egg was very very very delicious!
(4.30p) The snow was getting heavier on my way from the restaurant to the station. A long journey back to Sendai, feeling even longer than the way come to Towada. Probably because it was quite dark already… nothing much to see and seems to be never finish.
(7.30p) Walked around the Loft in Sendai and found quite a lot of interesting products there. It was some fake beard for guys like me don’t have much beard and wanted to look cool. And you can see the packaging and instore promotion materials are pretty cool.
(9.00p) Couldn’t find the oyster I saw yesterday, I’ve bought a sashimi rice bowl from supermarket instead. It was pretty good too :D.
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