Sendai Shinkansen

Kinda chose this as a destination as it was pretty far but the express trains go there. It was a only a 2 hour ride each way (it is 330km north of Tokyo) and we got to see some pretty mountains on the way there. Did we see any record stores? No, Imants said there were some but we didn't really bother as there weren't any punk specific. Did we see lots of temples or castles? Not so much, alot of them were levelled in the war. We took some loop bus that did get us to a museum and a bit of a temple, as well as what is left of the castle. Namely this dog.



The most hilarious thing that happened here was when I bought souvenirs from the temple (right next door to the war museum) and pretending to understand something the temple lady said I nodded and replied "Si!". Craig was laughing so hard that he was crying and we almost missed our bus

We did find a store with some cool souveniers in a covered street mall (arcade?), cloth bags with nonsensical writing (ie. Danger Dead Grape Flover) and patches. Also found a cool 100 yen store (Japanese equivalent of a dollar store) for some good souveniers like masks. We also had some crap pizza type food in a confusing restaurant full of high school kids. At least the draft was cheap, so this trip wasn't a total waste even though the city kinda reminded us of the Hammer.