Kawagoe

Saturday saw us going out to a less-known town/suburb called Kawagoe, which one of our NZ/UK friends had seen in the paper and decided to have a look at. Turns out to be an area where some of the streets and buildings are relatively preserved. Relatively as in some of the buildings are pretty old wooden creations with narrow stairways, etc.

There is also a street where a bunch of candy/sweet-makers have their stalls/shops. Japanese sweets are a little different to what we're accustomed to, and while nice are less sugary sweet.

As we walked on down the road, passing an old wooden bell tower, we noticed a shop selling japanese hanging scrolls. Sonia immediately fastened her eyes on one of the pictures, and after looking at about 10 other ones (which the shopkeeper had to unpack from the boxes and hang for inspection), we finally settled on the first one and purchased. It's going to need a pretty tall room, with very plain walls/furniture to show it off to best advantage. Warning to all nieces and nephews: your fingers will be broken if you touch it!

Unfortunately the scroll was packed into a fancy wooden box before I thought to take a photo. I'm not sure when or if we will get up the courage to unpack it before we have a room to hang it in...

Oh, and as we were walking down the road in Kawagoe, it snowed again - only for 10 minutes this time, but there wasn't any snow in the forecast!

Lunch was sushi (very nice), and dinner was Udon noodles (good, but not as good as lunch).