Final Days in Japan

Our days are coming to an end in Japan, but we have had so much fun here before we set out on the more rugged part of our journey.  As I had already taken Jack and Richard to my favorite places in Tokyo we set out to explore more of the Japanese cuisine.

First off we had our friend Justin take us to the 2nd best ranked Ramen shop in the whole country. The shop was called Itto and it was super delicious.

Even a half hour before it opened there was line stretching down the side of the street. We were super excited.

 

The ramen were delicious, the particular dish we got hand three kinds of meat on it, an egg, and super greasy delicious soup at the bottom. They only serve ten of these dishes a day and we were all lucky to enjoy it.

 

Here is our trusty Ramen guide, Justin, showing us how to chow down the noodles.

The next day we met up with one of my friends from when I went to school here. Her name is Maiko and she took us to an oknomiyaki place. Okonomiyaki is kinda like a japanese pancake but you can put almost anything you want inside them. We ordered four different ones that can be categorized as seafood, vegetable, cheese/fish eggs, and some kind of meat.

Here is Maiko ordering for us.

After explaining to us how to make it, Richard went ahead and dumped the pancake type mix onto the hot surface at the table.

Here was the finished product, it was super good. Thanks for taking us here Maiko!

We had our next meal with my good friend Senco, who just recently got married to my other friend Osho! Congratulations!! Senco took us to a korean bbq place and we had all kinds of meat.

Here is a picture of tongues that we cooked up!

 

Afterwards we met up with Osho as well and had a couple drinks together. If you look close you can see them showing up their wedding rings.  It was great to see them together. Congrats again, Jinsei hakaba!

It was great to see everyone and thanks so much for taking us out to all the good food. Right now we are packing and up and getting ready to take the ferry from Sakaiminato to Vladivostok. It is a two day journey with a 4-5 hour stop in the small Korean port city called Dong Hae. We booked one of the big rooms in the ship that up 150 people sleep in so we are bound to meet people and have some interesting stories to tell. We had a great time in Japan but we are ready to start the road trip.

- Ezra