Had a bit of a run around day again exploring different neighborhoods. Looking for an active area near a train stop that has no other Christian church in the area. There are so few churches here that it will be possible to have a whole area to ourselves. Yesterday we hopped a bus and train and ended up at Hajioji, it had been an area suggested to us for being less expensive living wise ,but it was a bit too rural looking and the area around the train station wasn't active really compared to other areas. So we just ate a bowl of Soba at the train station and headed back. The meal was interesting as you bought a ticket from a vending machine and then you took that inside the little restaurant and exchanged it for your meal. The restaurant workers never had to deal with the money at all, they just served up your food at the counter for you, and it was inexpensive too! I had been waiting on Gary when I spied the vending machine and was curious. (You know what they say about cats and curiosity) Anyway, I couldn't figure out how it worked so I just waited around a bit and then a salaryman showed up and I spied on him as he paid and received a ticket, then I saw him take it into the shop and exchange it for food!!! It was a wonderful thing!!! Lol! I had a Soba with tempura'ed veggies on top, Gary had a soba with chicken and mushrooms, they were both very tasty!
After that we rode the train through a few other neighborhoods and finally came back to Musashi Koganei where we went outside and looked around a bit.
It is an interesting neighborhood and we explored around some of the small streets and alleyways. We also found a nice department store called Nagasakiya that sells reasonably priced (for japan anyway) household goods for when we get our own place.
By then it was dark and time to figure out which bus we needed to get back to the house, which we did! We're getting good at this considering we arrived entirely clueless 10 days ago!
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