Got up a little early to hit the onsen again and then got breakfast from the buffet. It was quite good. In the upper left was scrambled eggs and ketchup rice. My friend’s daughter told us that it’s deconstructed omurice. I skipped the curry because everything else was quite a lot.

Since we were back in the sticks, I took a diesel train, transferred to an electric train, then transferred to the shinkansen which took me to Tokyo station. I was hoping to take a bus to the airport but since it’s Golden Week the roads are packed and they recommended the monorail. So i took the Yamanote line train to the Tokyo Monorail and then the Monorail to Haneda Airport. I was expecting the trains to be a mess but they were fine.

I wasn’t really that hungry at Haneda airport so I got a couple snacks at the Delta lounge. (I went to the Centurion Lounge but it was smaller and much, much darker.) This is a special dessert made for Children’s Day. I guess there’s supposed to be a koi in there (not a real one).

Then it was time to get on the plane from HND to SEA.

The food on the plane wasn’t bad, and I watched Mercy (pretty bad), the rest of No Other Choice (which turned into a black comedy after all), Shutter Island, the rest of the available episodes of High Potential, and most of Point Break. Why didn’t anyone tell me how awful Point Break is?

Had a pretty uneventful wait in the Seattle Delta lounge (still not hungry and I had a mislabeled Coke – I think it was Diet) and the quick flight down to Portland. 32 ½ hours after getting up, I was back in my own bed. The woman sitting next to me on the plane said she missed her flight the night before and spent the night in the airport. She took much longer getting home than I did!

And that’s it for my trip!

I stayed at a hotel that I was told was “okay”. It’s usually only about $50 US per night but for Golden Week it was closer to $130. The rooms were tiny, the walls were on the thin side, and the big bath in the basement wasn’t that big. But it was fine. The breakfast was pretty good.

There was an automatic pancake maker. Wave your hand over the switch and two small pancakes came out. The pancakes were pretty good.

After that I just mainly put on my white-ish shirt, my new black Uniqlo pants, and what I thought were black socks from FamilyMart that turned out to be dark blue. Then I went to the memorial service for the elder Dr. Kawasaki (the dad of the other two Drs Kawasaki) and I was the only non-family-member there. I was also surprised that the one-year memorial is where they place the cremains into the headstone.

After that we went to an onsen. This wasn’t everything. We still had more fish dishes and the silver lid is hiding a very tasty pork dish.

Then we took a dip in the onsen which was very sulphury and then just hung out in the lobby eating snacks and drinking a bit from the free drink bar. It was a a lot of fun and quite relaxing.