Slept like a log at Onyado Nono. I think I complained about the other one and slept very well there as well.

Breakfast at the Onyado Nono Fukui was pretty fancy. I thought the chirashidon was a nighttime thing on the restaurant board, but it’s what’s for breakfast! (Upper left.) It was another buffet. I thought I’d missed the miso soup but it was clam white miso soup. The salad bar also had pastrami so I took a piece. It was serious pastrami. There was also soba bowls but I didn’t want to eat that much more.

Next stop was Kanazawa, a place I’d been many times. I was hemming and hawing about what to see, especially since I’m pretty tired from all the walking. The woman at the tourist information desk said, why not the Noto Peninsula? Probably not a lot less walking but I knew I’d have a nice long train ride where I could sit for a while. I got a little confused and looked at the schedule backwards. Turns out I had a bit of time to kill. Of course I went looking for the pen I’m searching for. I was pretty much told, “Not a chance.” (They’re not that rude here but I got the idea.)

Interestingly there were artworks on the pillars of the station and I don’t think many people stop and look.

It was a nice 1 hour 26 minute ride through the countryside.

I got to Nanao and there’s not a whole lot going on. There’s going to be a big festival in a few days where they roll three huge 12m (~40 ft) tall, 20 ton floats through the tiny streets. I saw them preparing the floats in various spots during the day.

You can Google Nanao Dekayama to see the completed floats.

I also saw a small paving truck. I took a picture because I’m used to seeing the big ones back in Portland.

The two other things are the fish market and the old shopping street. The fish market looked like a normal fish market but at the back there was a food court.

I got a small tuna bowl because the woman recommended it. It’s locally caught tuna. I guess the local sushi restaurants are famous for using locally caught fish. I thought I was just getting the tuna bowl (upper left) and the thing I’m not going to mention on the upper right, but I was also given a big bowl of miso soup with a large piece of chewy, bony, white fish in it. It was all fresh and excellent.

I forgot to mention it was a late lunch and that’s why I got the small bowl. It ended up being a sizeable lunch. Oh, and I paid by credit card because I thought it was going to be expensive. it was $16.90 USD.

I went to the main shopping street and it looked like some of it was under construction.

Several historic buildings wrapped in construction cloth. When I read the sign more closely it said they were culturally significant and damaged in the Noto earthquake of 2023.

I also saw a couple of prefab buildings being used for restaurants, similar to the ones I saw in Kesennuma post-tsunami.

I was able to find a tasty cake and cup of coffee on the street.

The trip back was on an express train. It cost more, but it only took 57 minutes.

I checked into the Via Inn that’s inside the station. It’s far from the tracks so the noise I hear is mostly from the hallway.

I went to find some food and I was pretty seafooded out. There were two pasta restaurants next to each other and the brightly lit one was full of schoolgirls so I picked the fancier-looking one. I knew it wasn’t all that fancy when I saw the food delivery robot and ordering on iPads.

The craft gingerale wasn’t bad.

I asked where they got the salmon for the salmon pasta and confirmed it was from overseas. I felt OK getting a Napolitan spaghetti instead of seafood. I got a seafood salad (I know, I’m an idiot) which had more tuna and salmon sashimi than most mains I’ve had. But it the fish seemed rubbery compared to the buttery smooth fresh-caught fish I had at lunch. It was fine. It seemed expensive at ¥3025 but that’s $19.00. Less than what I pay for a burger and fries at a lot of places.

Well I spazzed on the drinks picture. That’s OK. I didn’t get any Wilkinson this time. I’m not entirely sure why I keep posting pictures of Wilkinson for my sister. I am drinking the Pocari Sweat hoping it staves off any leg cramps. So far so good.