うどん ＆ わくわく

Day two
Right, so I can't be arsed Japanifying names anymore and the novelty has pretty much worn off, since I'm doing all this from memory for the time being.

So yeah, after an amazing sleep, Kyoko, Yoko & Toshihiro from the ESS (dunno where Yugo went) showed us around Nakasho, we had udon, which was pretty good (Sam's had cocks in it apparently).
Then we navigated the ticket machine and got on the train to Kurashiki 「倉敷」then a bus (no idea how we would have managed this without the ESS) to the depato (I think it was called waku waku).
There I bought underpants, and we had fun not knowing what anything was or possibly could be, followed by wasting several thousand yen in the arcade (You's Land). I say wasting, but it was actually amazing; we had to throw balls at things, that's about as good a job I can do of describing one of the games.
We got some amazing photos with the ESS in a weird photo booth thing, very Japanese. I'll try and get them up on here when I can.
A quick bus & train back to Nakasho followed.
Then we had a burger in some obscure restaurant that was "famous". I've found out that 'famous' is used very liberally in Japan, the burger was still good though.

A quick tour of ハロウス (Halow's) followed, then another super sleep before meeting the legendary Takemi Otsuki at 0840 Monday morning (we'd been told he's a famous rockstar).