08:30:24
Chie eating an Amaou strawberry.08:30:28
10:05:23
Erika saying goodbye to Jiji and Baba (Grandma and Grandad).11:35:35
Getting on the shinkansen at Hiroshima.
12:04:52
Snowy landscapes seen from the window of the shinkansen.12:05:01
12:16:41
Chie and Erika having lunch on the shinkansen.13:32:17
14:04:16
A shot of the three of us (and the salaryman across the aisle!) as Erika had her afternoon nap.14:41:53
Me and Erika on the shinkansen.16:18:21
Chie and Erika enjoying the ceiling in Tokyo station.17:00:52
In our room at the Hotel Okura, where we met up with Tanaka-san and Yuka-chan.
17:01:27
...same with me and Yuka-chan having swapped places (hard to get the white balance right in this room!).18:05:26
In the Bar Highlander in the Hotel Okura, here's their own bottling of a Lagavulin 12 year old.18:42:41
In the lobby, Yuka and Erika.18:43:17
Tanaka-san and Erika having a goodbye hug.
18:45:23
Tanaka-san playing peekaboo (inai-inai-baa as they call it in Japanese) with Erika.18:45:26
18:45:32
19:40:21
Chaya, the macrobiotic restaaurant where we had dinner.
19:53:29
My dinner, involving some fritters made with seitan which were quite good.19:53:50
The cocotte which had a bit of soy meat in it. This was quite good too.20:49:21
On getting back to the hotel, the snow as seen from the entrance. Did not bode well for getting to the airport tomorrow!