Awake: 5:05am High thin clouds Overnight @ Nagoya, Japan
Kathy & I are almost the 1st customers in the café @ 6:32am. My sleepy
sisters, Corinne & Mary Jo show up @ 8:00am for breakfast.
Our gang of 11.5 agrees to meet in the hotel lobby @ 10:30am for today’s
adventures by tour guide Nick. Our travel will be by train so some of us
exchange our US dollars for Japanese Yen @ the hotel. Exchange rate: 1.07
yen per dollar. Our nearest train station Kanayama is a 5 min walk from
our hotel….very convenient. Nick instructs our group on getting tickets to
our 1st destination, the JR Central Towers. We must have boarded an
express train because it passed up our intended stop….so we simply caught
the next local train back to the correct stop.
It’s very hot & humid nearly every day here so our tour guide Nick’s idea
of going inside the Panorama House 53 stories up to look out & over the
city sounds good to us. These twin towers are impressive structures: A 51
story office tower complex & a 53 story hotel tower. The elevator ride
from the 12th floor to the 53rd floor took 37 seconds.
What a sight from the top…a 360 degree view of Nagoya. This upper level
area was like a cool weather relief hangout for all of us. Corinne, Mary
Jo & Josie found a nice lounge area while the rest of us kept identifying
several different areas around the city. Matthew had an hrs nap & that was
a good thing.
From the Twin Towers, we take the underground subway to the Nagoya TV
Tower (Hisaya-odori) stop, & eat lunch underground @ the Central Gallrey
shops. We each do our own thing in selecting a restaurant & agree to meet
in an hr. Kathy & I share a piece of breaded chicken & fish + rice as a
take out, then walk over to Tullys Coffee Shop where Kathy has an iced
Latte coffee with her lunch.
After our group rendezvous, Don & Josie inform us they went above ground &
found a beautiful Hollywood Park with the imprinted hands & pictures of
the stars. The rest of us, keeping our underground cool, strolled around
the many shopping areas. Zack was casually noticing all of the beautiful
Japanese girls dressed to the 9’s in high heels. @ 3:00pm, Nick leaves us
to meet with Eriko about wedding plans. Don & I + the others watch
carefully to make sure we take the correct train back to our hotel.
Earlier today Nick had mentioned that Eriko recommended the Vietnamese
restaurant, just across the street from our hotel, for dinner. So @
6:30pm, all 12.5 of us (Nick & Eriko included) walk over to that
restaurant for dinner. Oops, they are booked up…..plan “B” is to eat @ our
hotel restaurant…which was fine. We sit & gab for a few hrs.
Lights out: 10:00pm
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