Day out!

I've actually remembered to take a food photo. Unfortunately it didn't come out very well:

This is Kiritampo Nabe, one of Akita's most famoustest dishes. It's pretty tasty!

Last weekend we went on a Fall (Autumn if you're normal) foliage viewing daytrip around Akita Prefecture, first stopping off at Kanmanji, a pretty temple and gardens with lots of shrines and cats:


As always, click on the images for the full gallery.

After that, we got the bus up Mt. Chokai, the tallest mountain in Akita (although it's peak is actually in neighbouring Yamagata pefecture). There we admire the gorgeous Autumn views. Saying that I couldn't help feeling that we'd missed the best views by about a week or two, but it was still breathtaking:



Finally, we went to Jukroku Rakan on the coast and had lots of coastly fun playing on the rocks and admiring more awesome views:



Other than that rare day out things have been pretty uneventful here at AIU. Mainly just cracking on with studying and eating. Still spending too much money on coffee... I've been here for 2 months now, and without going in to too much detail I thought I should mention the fact that my guts have not been right since day one...

Til next time ;-)