JAPAN: Travel Day 2

 

Here is today’s plan:

• Go to the train station and purchase tickets to Kanazawa.
• Find something to eat. Of course there is a Starbucks in the station.
• It’s a 3-hour ride on the Shinkansen (photo below) or Bullet train.
• Purchase tickets for the remaining train rides later in the trip.
• Take a taxi to the hotel.

Meet the bike group at 5:00. We will have:

• Introductions.
• Fitting to the renal bikes
• Dinner

Tomorrow is the first cycling day, 84 km to Togi where we will stay in a Ryokan with shared bath and an Onsen Spa.  It looks like there is no wi-fi so tomorrow’s BLOG will be delayed.

Probably because of jet lag, we were both awake early so we got up and had most of our chores completed by 8:00.  The Tokyo train station, busiest in the world, was a mad house on multiple levels. Our train arrived early so it could be cleaned. When the cleaning crew was finished they exited the train, lined up by one of the cars and in unison bowed to the customers. Now that’s class.

          BULLET TRAIN TO THE RIGHT

 

I finally screwed up. There are two Kanazawa Hotels and we went to the wrong one.  This took some sorting out but with the assistance of Cycle Japan, it was sorted.  We spent a couple of spare hours walking the Kenrokuen Garden and Kanazawa Castle Park. Brenda asked about tours and the agent shut her window and gave us a private tour. See photo of Brenda and her on the walk.