Revisiting Japan
2018/Carlos Pueblo
Thinking of
revisiting Japan in 2018, I am excited. On the same morning of my
checking in
for my flight to Miami for the cruise trip to the southern Caribbean,
I purchased
a pair of tickets to Japan in the early spring of 2018. Amy always
like to revisit
this lovely nation and have a dinner with our old neighbor, Kiyoshi
and Keiko
Otani, in addition to them, I also like to have a dinner with my London
acquaintance,
Haruhiko Yamada. She is complaining that it is still cold in Japan and
concerned
with the early spring snowing. I pay more attention for hanamit, the
annual
cherry blossom phenomenon. Shengansen bullet train will take us from
Kyushu to
Shikoku, Kansai, Kanto, Tohoku, Hokaido, then along the coastal line of
the sea of
Japan to Chugoku, at least I’ll plan to see three famous castles, Kumamoto,
Himeji for
Amy, and Matsumoto during the tree weeks train pass.
I always
love to visit Japan and anxious to find the old route of my Dad’s graduation
visit to
Japan in the 1930’s which he admired so much and passed it on to me when I
was a child.
I regretted so much that I didn’t take advantage of his Japanese lesson one
summer for
the young engineers at my hometown school in 1966. I have picked up my
self-study Japanese
via enka songs on youtube and traveling around Japan. It’s not my
concern of
cold weather at all, I am also enjoying the snowing scene and leave before it
is getting
to long otherwise I am still alright, plus I want to cross the Atlantic again
after
I return
from Japan.
I also like
to have the experience of a train ride from Aomori along the coastal line to
Akita,
Golon sien which
is famous for lovely scenery that I missed due to winter snow storm in early
2016. There is a song to describe how lovely it is. I shall see if I can
purchase some Nara Tsuke,
a sake soaked
cucumber which is still available at my hometown in Taiwan. I shall also to
find
out if I can
carry some rice balls with sweet bean in it for my adopted daughters on board
when
I across the
Atlantic Ocean.
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