Whirlwind In A Mama's Head

  From Kobe after lunch, we took the Hikari Shinkansen to Nagoya. I booked Via Inn Nagoya for a couple of nights because it’s walking distance from Nagoya Station. We made use of the Ta-Q-Bin services again for our luggages and it did make our life so much easier. 

 On our last morning in Kobe, we got up earlier than usual and headed out to Chinatown. You don’t see too many Chinatowns in Japan, but due to it’s role as an international port hub, Kobe attracted many Chinese merchants and they settled in an area now known as Nankin-Machi, or Chinatown. On the way to Chinatown, we spotted a couple of interesting food store so we stopped to get some snacks to go. The first stop is a BBQ Pork shop, where we got a couple hundred grams of this delicious looking cut. The second one was Boulangerie Isuzu , where we got a long stick of sausage roll just to try. 

  All these times that we've been to Japan, we've never had a kimono experience. This time, however, since Miss Kiki was also willing, we made the appointment and did it! I chose to have it in Himeji because at the time this was planned, the Sakura forecast said that we would catch the full bloom when we were in Himeji. Alas, it got delayed by about a week! Anyhow, the experience had been booked and we went with it anyway.