super hitachi, john-ken-po
Ok, so I fell asleep last night right after dinner due to cold / fever of sorts that was not playing nice. So, directly after washing dishes - I went to bed and did not leave the bed until this morning - thus the late post.
Speaking of dishes (そういえば） a funny thing which I haven’t mentioned is the use of “john-ken-po” (actually more correctly spelled jyan-ken-po じゃんーけんーぽ） to solve every decision here in Japan. john-ken-po is the Japanese name for paper-rock-scissors, and I’ve seen it used in splitting up teams at the basketball court, choosing restaurants, deciding who has to do something, and who gets the last piece of sushi. For me and Ayako - we play paper-rock-scissors every day to determine who has to wash the dishes 
On our trip this past weekend we took the Super Hitachi train to Sendai (仙台）. Cool name for a train, and it had a unique LCD display on the front / back of the train cars displaying where it was headed, temperature, and other mundane facts. The Super Hitachi is just 1 step down from a Shinkansen (しんかんせん） and thus a little cheaper and half as fast.
Here are a few more photos of yosakoi dancers so you can see two other costumes:
Ok, will post again on Friday.
