We woke up this morning half happy, half sad.  The holiday is rapidly coming to an end.  After a shower we went and had breakfast, packed our bags, and checked out of our room. We walked to the station and caught the next Shinkansen to Tokyo.  They run every 15 minutes so we weren’t waiting long!  We didn’t have reserved seats on this trip but managed to find a couple of seats next to each other.

I dozed off on the train, but Kaoru woke me up to see Mount Fuji.  I got a few shots of it on my camera, as we get quite close on the Shinkansen.  Then we had our real treat – as we pulled in to Yokohama, Dr Yellow was waiting on the platform!  It is considered very lucky to see Dr Yellow – it is a yellow Shinkansen that is responsible for inspecting the tracks and wires to ensure everything is running perfectly.  Kaoru has never seen it, and there it was, waiting at the platform!

We finally arrived in Tokyo, and caught the subway to Nishi-Kasai.  We had Mos Burger for lunch, and then walked to Kaoru’s parents house.  After some tea and a chat we went upstairs and I had some work to take care of, and Kaoru went to have some passport photos taken.  I also had about 500ml of wedding sake left over so had a crack at that.  We had dinner at home – the first meal I have eaten at this house!  We had gyoza, with rice and other vegetables.  We had a chat and I showed them photos of things we had done since we were last in Japan – some camping, photos of Kaoru driving the boat on the Tweed River, etc.  Then we rolled out our futon’s and went to bed.