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Hakone

6:41pm JST Saturday 26 November 2005

Fun day today at Hakone. Met Hitomi in Yokohama, and.. I'm going to write in Japanese first.

Hakone nihongo

２００５年１１月２６日１８時４２分

今日は仁美と箱根に遊んで来た。今朝８：３０に横浜駅で会って、東海道 線小田原に行って、ナントカ線箱根湯本駅の前で出て食べ物すくた。おもしろ かった。その前その食べ物はちょっとにがって、けどそれから、その食べ物は ちょっとにがって、けどどうしたかどうか分かった。

後、電車で強羅駅来てケブルカーで山の上来て黒い卵二つ食べた。そこは 私の花が大変鼻水が川見たい。だから、話したなかった。仁美に「ごめん」と 言った。箱根湯本行った時私達寝た。駅来てしずかレストランで暖かい食べ物 を食べて、電車で塔ノ沢のホテルに来た。

Hitomi helps correct it as:

今日は仁美と箱根で遊んだ。今朝８：３０に横浜駅で会って、東海道線で小 田原に行って、ナントカ線箱根湯本駅に行く前に降りて食べ物をつくった。お もしろかった。つくる前はその食べ物はちょっとにがて、けどその後もその食 べ物はちょっとにがてだった。けどどうつくるか分かった。

その後、電車で強羅駅に行ってケーブルカーで山の上行って、黒い卵二つ食 べた。そこは私の鼻が大変で鼻水が川見たい。だから、話したくなかった。仁 美に「ごめん」と言った。箱根湯本行く時私達は電車の中で寝た。駅に着いて しずかなレストランで暖かい食べ物を食べて、電車で塔ノ沢のホテルに来た。

Hakone with Hitomi

11:57pm JST Saturday 26 November 2005

We met in Yokohama near the ticket gates of the red train (Keikyu (actually Keihin Kyukou) line) the name of which I had forgotten in my five weeks away.

Took the Tokaido line to Odawara and then the next line to a station not quite to Hakone Yumoto where we made _____ and _____, two Japanese foods that I don't really like, but now know sorta how they are shaped. Basically they are shaped of a thick gooey batter that is apparently based on ground up fish. The battery is formed into various shapes and then baked (cake shape) or turned on a spit (tube shaped) until the batter gels. The texture is quite rubbery and they have a very plain taste.

We took the train to Gora (where I rode TJ Bike one time) and then rode the cable car up the mountain and the gondola even further up. Gora and the surrounding lines were quite crowded, given that it was around 2pm on a Saturday.

We each ate 2 "black eggs" that are supposed to give us 7 extra years of life each (I'll get about 63 extra years given the number I guesstimate I've eaten over my tenure in Japan) and then headed back toward the base of the mountain. The line for the next gondola (older, with smaller cars that go down the other side of the mountain) was simply too long to be worth the wait.

Chowed at a quiet restaurant not so many steps off the main street next to HakoneYumoto station and are now in a hotel sorta near Tounosawa station.