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<\/a>At Narita train station, we put my bags in a locker and walked down the main street.\u00a0 Narita is a very nice town \u2013 I\u2019ve only ever seen the airport until now.\u00a0 We found a restaurant where we watched a man pull a live eel out of a bin (full of them), cut its head, poke a peg through its eye to hold it to the counter, cut it, gut it, and pass it to the person across the table.\u00a0 He put skewers through it, after which they got cooked, and served up to us on rice for lunch!\u00a0 That\u2019s about as fresh as it gets!\u00a0 It would have been ~15 minutes from swimming to being eaten!\u00a0 The sauce they put on it was delicious, and we polished it all off, washed down with a beer, of course!\u00a0 It was very refreshing as the weather was really starting to warm up (~27 degrees).<\/p>\nOur room was really nice.\u00a0 We had a view of the airport, and could watch planes take off and land.\u00a0 Eventually we were hungry again, and went up to the top floor for dinner, where we had a few small dishes to eat, and had a beautiful night view of the town.\u00a0 We then went downstairs to the convenience store, and bought some OJ and a snack to have for breakfast the next morning, intending to have a proper breakfast at the airport, but needing something to keep us going.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It took us a couple of trains, but we worked our way to Narita.\u00a0 Because it was a long journey, and we were saving money by not catching the Narita Express, we decided to spend the extra 700 yen and take the \u201cGreen Car\u201d.\u00a0 These are basically the \u201cFirst Class\u201d cars, where you get a … Continue reading <\/a>We went to the shrine, and walked around there.\u00a0 There was a lovely garden to walk through, but very hilly so good exercise too.\u00a0 But eventually we left and made our way back to the train station.\u00a0 There we caught a (free) shuttle bus to the hotel we had booked in to for the night.<\/p>\n