We started the morning off with a trip to Koshigaya Lake
Town, specifically, the large Aeon shopping mall just outside Koshigaya. We
were running a little low on ideas and Koshigaya was just a few stops on the
Musashino line so it seemed like a good way to start the day.
I’d been to Laketown before and had found that the size
alone meant that there’s plenty to do.
First things first, neither of us had eaten so lunch was the
first order of the day. As a large mall it’s to be expected that there’s a
large food court. My choice of lunch was Barayaki: a relatively simple dish
consisting of fried beef and onions served with rice. It was served up in a
nice bento style box.
We browsed for a while but unfortunately weren’t able to
locate the Starbucks in the outdoor area that I’d commented on in previous blog
posts. I suspect this was in the second of the two mall structures “Mori”, we
spent the whole time in “Kaze” (The mall consists of 2 main structures linked
by a walkway). Disappointingly, we also found that the arcade had closed down.
The cinema was still there but there didn’t look like there was much worth
watching.
With time marching on, it was time to return to Misato. We
stopped by LaLaPort on the way back where we noticed a rather creepy inflatable
Anpanman as an attraction. Kyle tells me that Anpanman is the ultimate zombie
as he (in the cartoon) rips off bits of his head (including jam, which appears
to be his brain) and offers them to friends as a snack. Weird! I was more
worried about where the entrance/exit was…
After LaLaPort we returned to the apartment, giving me a
little time to catch up on the copious amounts of writing I needed to do and
work out potential arrangements for meeting friends who were near the area at
the time. Between this and needing to take a little time for Kyle to regain his
strength (the poor guy was feeling quite worn down and a little unwell) it was
pretty late by the time we thought about getting dinner. Kyle’s suggestion was
a local Pizza restaurant with an eat all you want option. Once again, I hadn’t
experienced much of the Japanese adaptation of western dishes so this was a
useful opportunity. They operated a similar system to Brazilian steakhouses
where you turn a card over to indicate whether you want more pizza or not.
The pizza base was definitely in the Italian style, by that
I mean thin crust. This was great because it’s my preferred way of having
pizza. Pizza was brought out by the slice so we could try a variety of
toppings, some standard and some a little more unusual. Probably the most
unusual was teriyaki chicken, it was strange but it worked pretty well!
After the “main” pizzas there were also a number of “desert
pizzas”. This was a mind blowing concept for me. All in all, it gets the thumbs
up from me!
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