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Quick update: Wakayama Prefecture Can Bite Me
I should have just stayed in Osaka tonight. Sheesh.
I wanted to go out to Kishi tomorrow to meet Tama the Station Cat but somehow failed to notice that Tama doesn't "work" on Sundays. I looked at the Wakayama Dentetsu site but just didn't catch it I guess, and when I got to Wakayama station tonight I saw a sign about how "Hi, I'm Tama. I don't work on Sundays."
There'll be some sort of other mascot thingy at the station tomorrow. Now I can't decide -- is it worth going all the way out to Kishi station to see the cat station and the Tama museum and maybe buy a keychain or something... if the cat isn't actually going to be there herself? Or should I just say "Screw Wakayama, you guys suck" and go to the Osaka Dome for shopping and lunch instead? I'm not sure I can actually do both and still make it back home reasonably. Trying to play with train schedules now. Goddamnit.
Also, the idiots who work at the Wakayama Toyoko Inn can bite me as well. What the hell is with your pidgin English mixed in with Japanese? "Asagohan wa seven o clock kara nine thirty made, over there desu". WTF WTF WTF.
I'm going to go take a bath in the hopes it'll relax me, and then I'll write some more about the day.
EDIT>
Actually, there really isn't much to say about this day. I sat on trains a lot.
Kokura 940 -> 1000 Shimonoseki
Shimonoseki 1003 -> 1155 Tokuyama
Tokuyama 1206 -> 1315 Iwakuni
Iwakuni 1320 -> 1535 Itosaki
Itosaki 1538 -> 1605 Fukuyama
My original plan involved getting off the train at Hiroshima for lunch and also taking an alternate train from Hiroshima->Kure->Mihara that would have gone along the coast, except that even the brief amounts of coast I saw on the Tokuyama-Iwakuni leg just weren't that exciting to me, plus it was really HOT inside the train on the sunny coastal side, so I figured, whatever, not worth the time. Also, lots of people got on and off the train at Hiroshima so I didn't feel like dealing with not being able to get a seat possibly on the next leg... and I wasn't that hungry when I reached Hiroshima anyway. So I just stayed on the Iwakuni-Itosaki train the entire way.
There were some REALLY loud American military-looking guys on the train from Iwakuni to around Hiroshima. I could hear them from halfway up the train AND with my iPod on, and they NEVER stopped talking. No joke. I almost wanted to go tell them to shut up but figured it wasn't worth it, 3 military guys weren't worth messing with.
Fukuyama was because I noticed there was a Fukuyama->Okayama kaisoku train, and had never been to that station, and from a brief glance at my phone's "shuhen gurume" thing, it looked like there'd be a lot of options to eat at Fukuyama. It wasn't entirely true, but I found a Nakau and got some cheapo wafuu gyudon and a small udon soup with it too. This made my stomach hurt like hell about an hour later. Oops.
Fukuyama 1647 -> 1721 Kurashiki
Kurashiki 1741 -> 1926 Himeji
Himeji 1927 -> 2028 Osaka
Osaka 2033 -> 2156 Wakayama
And here I am.
And I hate this prefecture. On the other hand now at least I have spent more than 10 minutes here (it was probly the most iffy of my collected prefectures, the only time I'd spent here before was when I took a ferry from Tokushima to Wakayama, and walked from the Wakayama port to the Wakayama train station, and got on a train into Osaka.
I'm still debating what I want to do about the damn cat not being there tomorrow. Sigh.
I wanted to go out to Kishi tomorrow to meet Tama the Station Cat but somehow failed to notice that Tama doesn't "work" on Sundays. I looked at the Wakayama Dentetsu site but just didn't catch it I guess, and when I got to Wakayama station tonight I saw a sign about how "Hi, I'm Tama. I don't work on Sundays."
There'll be some sort of other mascot thingy at the station tomorrow. Now I can't decide -- is it worth going all the way out to Kishi station to see the cat station and the Tama museum and maybe buy a keychain or something... if the cat isn't actually going to be there herself? Or should I just say "Screw Wakayama, you guys suck" and go to the Osaka Dome for shopping and lunch instead? I'm not sure I can actually do both and still make it back home reasonably. Trying to play with train schedules now. Goddamnit.
Also, the idiots who work at the Wakayama Toyoko Inn can bite me as well. What the hell is with your pidgin English mixed in with Japanese? "Asagohan wa seven o clock kara nine thirty made, over there desu". WTF WTF WTF.
I'm going to go take a bath in the hopes it'll relax me, and then I'll write some more about the day.
EDIT>
Actually, there really isn't much to say about this day. I sat on trains a lot.
Kokura 940 -> 1000 Shimonoseki
Shimonoseki 1003 -> 1155 Tokuyama
Tokuyama 1206 -> 1315 Iwakuni
Iwakuni 1320 -> 1535 Itosaki
Itosaki 1538 -> 1605 Fukuyama
My original plan involved getting off the train at Hiroshima for lunch and also taking an alternate train from Hiroshima->Kure->Mihara that would have gone along the coast, except that even the brief amounts of coast I saw on the Tokuyama-Iwakuni leg just weren't that exciting to me, plus it was really HOT inside the train on the sunny coastal side, so I figured, whatever, not worth the time. Also, lots of people got on and off the train at Hiroshima so I didn't feel like dealing with not being able to get a seat possibly on the next leg... and I wasn't that hungry when I reached Hiroshima anyway. So I just stayed on the Iwakuni-Itosaki train the entire way.
There were some REALLY loud American military-looking guys on the train from Iwakuni to around Hiroshima. I could hear them from halfway up the train AND with my iPod on, and they NEVER stopped talking. No joke. I almost wanted to go tell them to shut up but figured it wasn't worth it, 3 military guys weren't worth messing with.
Fukuyama was because I noticed there was a Fukuyama->Okayama kaisoku train, and had never been to that station, and from a brief glance at my phone's "shuhen gurume" thing, it looked like there'd be a lot of options to eat at Fukuyama. It wasn't entirely true, but I found a Nakau and got some cheapo wafuu gyudon and a small udon soup with it too. This made my stomach hurt like hell about an hour later. Oops.
Fukuyama 1647 -> 1721 Kurashiki
Kurashiki 1741 -> 1926 Himeji
Himeji 1927 -> 2028 Osaka
Osaka 2033 -> 2156 Wakayama
And here I am.
And I hate this prefecture. On the other hand now at least I have spent more than 10 minutes here (it was probly the most iffy of my collected prefectures, the only time I'd spent here before was when I took a ferry from Tokushima to Wakayama, and walked from the Wakayama port to the Wakayama train station, and got on a train into Osaka.
I'm still debating what I want to do about the damn cat not being there tomorrow. Sigh.
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Isn't this how everybody at a certain level speaks? When I was doing homestay, the HS-1 brother spoke exactly like this, using Japanese grammar and just substituting English words for the nouns. Seems like what you get if your learning consists of memorizing a dictionary.
(Edit: He also substituted verbs, but couldn't conjugate them, instead using [english verb]する.)
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I actually took the Toyoko's アンケート with me and plan to write a long rant about my experiences this trip.