We park our bikes and explore a great local temple, which includes an ancient three-story pagoda. It's amazing to sit and think that structure is older than America! We leave the temple and ride to a grocery store, where we buy tons of ingredients to make spaghetti for dinner (plus plenty of beer, of course). We ride back with groceries in our baskets, pushing the bikes up the worst part of the hill (which seems much easier to get up this time around). Matt and Jonathan do most of the cooking back at the villa, and after dinner we drink all of the beer and quiz each other on 80s pop hits. We discover a tape that a former guest has left in the VCR with a Mystery Science Theater 3000 movie on it, so we watch that (Devil Fish) before bedtime. I flip through a guest comments book and read that someone had spotted a centipede in their room last August, and about 30 minutes later Matt spots one crawling under my couch! After a good freak-out session, I calm down and we never see it again.
View photos: Japan 2003 Part 2Labels: japan, photos, trips
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