Day 6 - Sendai

We checked out of our hotel at 10am (the standard time around here) and headed to Seattle's Best coffee to grab a drink and use their free wifi. We walked around the downtown area of Fukuoka (Tenjin) for awhile before we had to catch our train to Sendai at 2:30pm.

Jeff really wanted ramen for lunch but we couldn't find any to save our life... if there was one it was closed. We settled for just a standard place where we had rice, chicken, miso and some picked items. I put this black sesame/salt stuff on my rice and OMG it's my new favorite thing to eat!! Will have to try and find some to take home.


Once on the train we had a few hours to nap a bit and then we had to switch trains in Shin-Yatsushio. Our tickets were given to us in Japanese, which was a first, so we had to look up the symbols to figure out where to switch.

Sendai is a smaller, quieter town. It is more of what I pictured Japan to look like. We checked into our hotel, did some laundry (clothes are starting to smell!) and just chilled for a bit.

Around dinner time we ventured out into town and just tried to see what was available... and open. We wandered into a place that smelled good and had quite a few people in it. They spoke no english and had no menu with pictures... So when they sat us in a tatami room with 3 other girls I just looked at what they had, looked up the word same and motioned to our server we just wanted what they were having. It worked out pretty well. Oh and we ordered ni Berru (2 beers), we've got that one down! So, what arrived at our table was: some sort of mac salad appetiazer that everyone gets, friend chicken with tater tots and cabbage salad (including ketchup and mayo), tuna salad with cucumbers and tomatoes, mixed selection of skewers (spicy chicken, pork belly, liver, peppers, quail egg and bacon, pork skin and grilled chicken). Random yes, but also tasty. The tater tot dish was funny... What we didn't get was edemame and beef skewers that they also had but that is ok b/c we were full. The whole meal came to about 4010 yen. Since we were so full it was the long way back to the hotel to walk some of it off.

Pictures (not in order).