The party next door ended around 11PM and it was fairly quiet last night. I got up feeling pretty good besides my sore throat. But I still didn’t feel like doing anything. Both my sister and mom agreed, I don’t really have to do anything since I am on vacation. So, I did what I did the last time I didn’t want to leave the room: laundry.
About the time I started, my sister told me to buy the train tickets for our return train trip from Osaka to Tokyo. That’s right before we get on the plane to head home. I had enough time to walk to the train station, stand in one of the slowest lines I’ve been in, twice, since I thought I’d screwed up the tickets once. The laundry still wasn’t done when I got back.
It was a beautiful day. I’m not sure why, but there have been a lot of hot, sunny days right after cold rainy days. That make for some humid days as well.
I decided to eat lunch at Burger King just because I saw it on the way back and I wanted to be able to say that the last time I ate at Burger King was in Tokyo. It wasn’t bad, but it didn’t make me feel very good. Another problem is that I like eating lunch at odd times. If you want to was lunch outside of the hours of 11AM – 2PM, nothing “normal” is open but hamburger joints are.
I did get to watch some guys throwing away the contents of an office of some sort from the window of the Burger King.
After that it was back to the hotel to try to figure out how to keep my Japanese data plan SIM running. The one I got only works for a month at a time without getting a “recharge”. It took way longer than I thought it would to figure it out on their web site because telephone companies aren’t known to be clear and it was all in Japanese. I’m not sure how I killed the afternoon but I’m sure that took a lot of the time.
Then it was time for me to be indecisive. I’ve been here 26 days and I needed a haircut but Tokyo has the worst men’s hairstyles that I’ve seen in a long time. Regular haircuts here come with a post-haircut wash, a shave, and a shoulder massage, and costs about ¥4,000. But there’s also a chain called QB House that just does the cut for ¥1,000 in 10 minutes. I couldn’t decide whether to let them try cutting my hair or just to get a buzz cut that they couldn’t screw up. I finally figured I should trust them and just let the guy at QB House cut my hair. It wasn’t so bad.
The indecisiveness carried over into dinner and I walked all over the neighborhood before I finally went to buy a bento from a shop that wasn’t that good.
One thing I’ve been looking for is some traditional Japanese sweets and I really haven’t seen anywhere. Well, it turns out that walking around the neighborhood I found a place right across the street.
And that’s it for today. Turns out the railway museum isn’t closed on Mondays like most museums. It’s closed on Tuesday so I probably won’t be able to see it on this trip. Oh, well, it’s not high on my list of regrets. I think going to Burger King for lunch is higher on my list of regrets at this point.