Well the beautiful weather of yesterday has gone and we found out from a Japanese friend that a strong Typhoon is on its way to Tokyo via Osaka and the day was rather cloudy with a light rain most of the day.
Later in the day we decided to walk around the shopping area which is very large and mostly with a covered archway and as the weather was quite warm it was a pleasant experience looking in at the completely different types of shops, no chain stores here just load of stores selling anything from Kimonos to a leather coin bag and all with great colours and cute faces. It was still raining and all the bars and restaurants were pretty much full and lots of ‘Gaijin’ or foreigners around this quite touristy area.
For tea that evening we enjoyed some sushi which we had purchased for the food store and then flicking through the cable tv channels came across the game between Arsenal and Everton, at the point we joined it was 2-0 to Arsenal with about fifteen minutes to go but at this point it was rather boring and of course the commentary was in Japanese. On our notebook computer we have Netflix and so watched a film which was quite good however the sound volume was low. We plan to purchase a HDMI cable and plug the pc in there and/or a cheap powered small speaker to use over the next couple of weeks as TV in Japan is great if you are Japanese but for us Brits there is only a few channels to watch and that is in Tokyo, in the sticks of Japan we would doubt there are any English speaking channels at all, we shall see.
And so to bed whilst the rain continues to fall.