Our Adventures in Japan: okutama day 2

And we ate all of it!

After breakfast, we checked out and went to take a look at the Tama river.

So clear!

I wanted espresso, so I had this Aeropress tonic from Wasabi Shokudo, a small meals truck 

Then we caught the bus to Lake Okutama, which supplies consuming water for Tokyo which suggests no swimming or fishing within the lake

After which we went to Ogouchi Shrine the place they have been having some sort of pageant.
 

From Okutama we headed to Ome.

There are numerous classic wanting buildings, in addition to classic film posters (again within the day I believe they have been painted)

At Kongoji, there’s an ume tree, the fruit doesn’t change coloration, and stays inexperienced which is seemingly how the world obtained it’s title, the kanji (chinese language characters) is “inexperienced ume”.

Ome additionally has a lot of cat motifs right here and there.

Apparently there have been many textile factories within the space and since that they had rodent issues they introduced in cats and in some way the cat motifs are nonetheless round immediately.

Lunch was at Natsu e no tobira (actually door to summer season)

This cafe is true subsequent to the tracks, so you’ll be able to watch the trains go by in addition to hearken to jazz

I had hen curry whereas Satoshi had the veggie curry.