Dinner in a Japanese home.

 As we had wound our way down Japan from Tokyo west to Kansawa then East to Kyoto, Hiroshima and Fukuoka we had to return to Tokyo which meant a five hour train trip. 

The boys had secured our return trip as soon as we arrived in Fukuoka and our train left around 9am.

Lots of stops but the train didn't stay long at each place, we had bought some snacks to eat, back to Tokyo's station around 2.30pm, grab a taxi back to the same hotel.

Bit of a rest and a change of clothes and we were off out again to visit a couple that we had taught with in China. 

Dinner was to be early as Warren and I had an early flight the next morning, leaving the hotel at 5am. 

It was so nice to be going to a locals home. Like China it was shoes off at the door and there was a selection of slippers to choose from. Rooms seem smaller than we were used to but as there is only the two of them, it was certainly large enough. Very bright colours on the walls, they had been renovating when we first arrived in Tokyo, they took us to a traditional old Japanese restaurant.

Food was different but tasty. Both speak quite good English of course with an accent and sometimes they had to check with one another about the right word to use.

It was an enjoyable and fitting end to our holiday.

One of the dishes, seaweed, swede and a hard boiled egg.

This photo was taken from their front room, which had a small shrine on one side and a computer on the other with photos of both parents above the door.