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Lunch today was a trip to the local soba shop, only a block from Nintendo and strangely uncrowded for a being what looks like the only restaurant within walking distance. I wonder if most of the employees eat at the cafeteria or from the local convenience stores (both of which looked as crowded as the soba restaurant did). We ate tenzaru soba, with rice and pickles, and when the meal was finished, our server brought a teapot filled with the soba water, which we then were meant to pour into the soba dipping sauce (whose name escapes me, and I’m writing this note to remind myself to look it up, which means if this note is still in here, I got lazy and just pressed publish without doing so). The soba broth apparently holds more nutrients than even the soba itself, and many sang of its benefits to skin, cholesterol levels, cancer prevention, emotional and spiritual wellbeing, and so on.

The real gem, however, came after lunch, when we stopped in at a local 7-Eleven to pick up drinks to sustain us through the jet lag that was only just beginning to knock us on our asses. Nescafe sells a canned coffee drink branded with the image of Golgo 13, legendary assassin of the manga of the same name. I’ll post an image later when I get a chance, because it turns out I was too lazy to finish this post properly… Ah, well. Blame jet lag if you must blame something.

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