Ended my part two at the end of the mountain trip. This is a very important station called Shinano Omachi. This is one end of the gateway of Kurobe Alpine route. We couldn't get to the other end because of heavy snow on the other side, hence had to backtrack down. We were suppose to take the train that goes up north. Instead... we hopped onto the wrong train that took us back to Matsumoto, which cost us one hour. So we took the same train back to Shinano Omachi Station. Didn't check properly and guess what... took the same train back to Matsumoto again.... this time, we were smart. got off at the next station and tried to rush back to connect to the right train but we missed it.
So we ended up spending some time in the nearby supermarket near Shinano Omachi Station before hopping onto the CORRECT train.
bought some sushi for dinner.
THIS is the correct train
Finally, the correct place to rest for the night, Toyama City. Not forgetting some snacks n beer before hitting the sack!
breakie!
explored the nearby city and found a food street.
takoyaki!
bakery!
happy campers and their takoyaki
crazy train people
see the snow-capped mountains?
we reached Takaoka Station, a lil day trip.
old buildings
pretty flowers
streets of japan
Zuiryuji Temple
Tulips Fair, so pretty
seeing the flowers thru the kaleidescope
seeing the human through the kaleidescope
had lunch at macdonalds. something new. prawn fillet. yum!
dinner was prawn again! oh my. so so delicious.
june's dinner. fried prawns.
let's have fun at supper time!
oh. bought this nigori (cloudy sake) at the alpine route. so delicious.
pink tram. picture taken from the room.
breakie!
the sticky natto
after lunch, we headed to the main train station to catch another train. unexpectedly, we saw that there was a new train that was going to be launched too. It's called the Thunderbird. Actually not new, just a newer series in the service. They actually allowed people to get onto the new train and take a look.
regular trains
on the way, you will see the mountain range. so beautiful
happy camper again!
first glimpse of the Sea of Japan! pardon the dirty windows.
change of the trains and explored the station. found this sake place. very very interesting!
buy some tokens
and taste some sake! so simple.
put in the token and voila!
some salts to go along with the sake
don't understand? here is the diagram for it.
switched to the bullet train next~
lunch time.
my traveling partner and her sparkling sake that she bought.
someone forgot it was sparkling and it resulted in...
niigata station
a shrine we went
a sake brewery we explored
more food!
i like the evening skies
decided to stop at an izakaya for dinner. izakaya is like a pub but with more food selections.
ended the night with more beer!
breakie~~
bought some milk the previous night
streets of japan, once again
lunch at macs again
streets are so safe. lots of bike.
took an express train. Limited Express Inaho
