December 24, 2009

• Wow, Seedy!

  The trip back on the shinkansen was offering us the same views we had going east, which was nice, since there were some snow-covered hills and Mt. Fuji to see again.

  

  This neighborhood we're in for the last leg of the trip, Shinjuku, is something of a shocking break from Kyoto.  We're back to the gritty, shiny, sparkling, smelly, populated urban world again.  Asakusa was a sleepy little burb compared to Shinjuku. 

  We went to a Shabu Shabu place for dinner called AEN:  basically a hot pot where you boil stuff and then dip the stuff in ponzu, which I love.  Aaron is forbidden from commenting on my dietary choices:  he got the blueberry and vanilla ice cream pizza. Now, mind you, he had the shabu-shabu, but he wanted to try this as well.  He loved it, and I'm sure it's . . . good, but . . . just no.

  

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