Today we woke up, and after breakfast, had to pack our bags.  We were leaving Mio’s house today, and the plan is that she will send our bags to our hotel near Narita, and we will take what we need to Nasu to visit Otosan and Okasan for a couple of days.  So it was at this point that we had the scales out to work out if everything would fit OK.  It was quite a tight fit, but eventually the bags closed, and we were pretty spot on our limit.

Mio and Arisa took us to the station and we said goodbye, and then made our way to Tokyo station to buy our Shinkansen ticket.  I managed to get a 3 day tourist pass, which covers the line going up to Nasu, and also the Narita Express, for ~8,000 yen.  Because Kaoru has a Japanese passport, she wasn’t allowed, so had to pay 5,500 yen to get to Nasu.  So my pass was real value for money!  Getting the ticket was a real headache though.  It wasn’t from the normal ticket counter – we had to go to a tourist information counter, and it seemed nobody knew where we had to go – although they all pointed us in *a* direction – just not the right one half the time!  It took us over 15 minutes just to find the place to buy the tickets from.

We stopped for a hot chocolate after sorting out the tickets – Kaoru needed to sit down.  We had about half an hour before our Shinkansen left so we enjoyed a hot chocolate, and bought a bento box for the ride.  We left just after 11, and arrived at Nasu around 12.30.  Okasan and Otosan were waiting for us, so we got in their car and went to a french style cafe for lunch, before going to the house.

I had bought a “UFO” wireless access point for them, as coverage to the second house was non-existant with the existing router.  So I played around setting that up, checking the coverage, setting up the computers on the new access point, etc, and got a bit of work done.  We got to speak to Mum and Dad on Skype just before dinner (while Otosan and I enjoyed a Sake), and then after a wonderful meal and a hot bath, I went to our house to do some work, while Kaoru had a bath and talk to her parents.