re: #118 dr. klys

A month out from Japan and my husband has already started watching the reservations on the shinkansen. God help us when the appropriate dates on the Cassiopeia come into view. New Year’s in Tokyo.

I’m hoping I can convince him that we should do the temple near Tokyo Tower for the balloon release at midnight, but I may not win that discussion.

And hot springs! Fooooooooooooood. God, the food from the department stores in Tokyo, give me a tonkatsu bento and I am happy. And curry. Ramen. We will do shio ramen in Hakodate and I will be happy. And he will have beer. We’re going to try to get by Misawa to see the air force base where my aunt was born and my grandfather was stationed at twice. And snow in Sapporo. God, I want snow. Snow snow snow. Maybe Aoni Onsen in the snow.

I was stationed in Yokosuka for about 18 months, then spent 6 months down in Okinawa.