The Japanese Store That Sells Everything…
After beginning the day trying out the massage chair in the hotel (photograph 1), which managed to pummel my back into seventeen pieces and squeeze my feet so hard that the toes almost merged together (hey, cool - webbed feet), we left Kotohira to travel to Kobe; the fifth largest city in Japan.
This blog post is going to be short and sweet and is all about… Donkey Hote - a Japanese store, with five floors, that sells just about anything you could desire, from thongs to bicycles and everything in between. No, I don't just mean tracksuit bottoms, I wasn't talking literally. Besides, who wears a thong when riding a bike… What's that? You do?!? Photograph 2 shows a snap that I took in the store and the other photographs show some of the bizarre things within the store. Photograph 3, for example, is of a bum (and thong) pillow… before you ask, the bicycles were on the next floor up! Photograph 5 is of a golf club umbrella (genius!). Now, there are two ways of looking at this. You could be out on the golf course playing golf, on the fourth hole, with your plastic club (you'll probably be there for some time, looking at the quality of it) and you find it suddenly starts to rain (not too hard, obviously: it wouldn't help you much in a monsoon). "Ha", you shout to your opponents (loudly, as they are already in the club house, getting drunk) "I've got an umbrella… I won't be getting wet!" Alternatively, you may go out in a rain shower one day and find the sudden need to chip a ball-shaped-object out of a patch of rough... In the spirit of Christmas (hmmm), my final photograph for today (photograph 5) is of a pink Christmas tree. Who could resist? Ok… you can all put your hands down now. It was a rhetorical question! Tomorrow I leave on the first part of my journey home. I still have much to reflect and report on. Sayonara for now though.