29 June 2015

Travel day: Nikko to Ise


Sunday was a travel day. We took 4 trains from Nikko to Ise.

Nikko Train Station 
1) 10:06 train Nikko to Utsunomiya
   
It was really more of a long distance subway

2) 10:58 train Utsunomiya to Tokyo
3) 12:03 train Tokyo to Nagoya


4) 14:37 train Nagoya to Ise

We were in the first car, it was interesting to watch the conductor. He gave a lot of hand signals at what appeared to be specified times, though we couldn't see anyone watching.

We arrived at 16:06 into Ise, walked to our hotel and eventually wandered towards dinner somewhere. My friend and I took a long walk, checking out some of the city along the way, eventually ending up at a large supermarket (I always like to visit supermarkets in foreign countries....it gives one such a good sense of the culture) and a 100 yen store, the Japanese equivalent of a dollar store. Thankfully for my suitcase,  it was just closing!

View from my hotel room

Such unique architecture 

Cell phone kitty!

Outside a cemetery 

These statues in the cemetery scared the crap out of me when we first walked by, I thought they were real people! 

I found the truth!

After all our walking we ended up with a convenience store dinner:
Chicken curry with rice, some random beverage that I can only
explain as "it tastes pink" and brownie bites for dessert.

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