Right now, everything here in Japan sucks. Ya' know why? It's raining. It's not a hard downpour, but a lasting hazy drizzle with heave intervals every now and then.

Despite the rain, dad and I went to see a couple of things here in Nagoya. First was the Nagoya-jo or the castle here. There really wasn't much to the castle, it's a reconstruction because the original was destroyed around WWII. Mainly the castle was the HQ for the Tokugawa shogunate during the Edo period. Inside were tons of relics from the time and other things that put alot of the relics and reconstructions into perspective.

Next we got lost trying to get to the Tokugawa art Museum, that took us an hour to find it, not including the walk to it, another twenty minutes. This was the coolest museum I've ever been to, forget all of the art and authentic kimonos from the shogunate, there were 30+ swords, including a O-Dachi, a sword that was over three meters long! This sword was HUGE!!! I'm so glad that I found a flier of it to show ya'll (there's my Texan English again).

We skipped lunch, there really wasn't any where to eat and we were to exhausted to do anything else.

After we got our second wind, about two hours later we ventured out again into the streets to search for dinner, let me just say that I'm glad we did.

A few blocks from our hotel was the greatest place that I have ever eaten: "Slevy Surfboarders" (we're guessing that it lost something in translation). This restaurant is a place were the bring hot coals to your table and set them beneath a grill screen, then after the the grill gets hot, they bring the meat and/or veggies. O!M!G! This was so-o-o-o-o-o-o-o good. The two final meats we had were both beef, one was domestic Kobi beef that literally melted in your mouth. The other was marinated in sweet brown miso (Drool), its this kind of food that puts every other food to shame.

Now we're in the hotel watching the World Cup. Tomorrow we go to Tokyo for five days. Nothing more.

Cheers

Aengus No Kitsune