03/30 - Nagoya

Today was a relatively calm day in nagoya. The weather was rainy, so that wasn't too fun. we got in a settled at around noon and dima went off on his own. Keegan and I made our way to the Toyota industry and technology museum and tried to take a
train there, only to find out no trains went there. Of course we found that out after stepping into a train. After a 30 minute detour we were back where we started.

we walked to the museum, which was actually a pretty neat museum. Toyota has it roots in the textile industry and had a large section based on that, with many interactive displays, which was pretty cool.


the car section talked about how toyota cars started and had information about the research towards metals, which was neat. there were replicas of the first toyotas, demonstrations on metal forging, casting and stamping and many interactive displays ranging from the engine, transmission, all the way down to the glass and bumpers. It was very in depth and really neat to see. The only negative was we wanted to make a small model car, but they only get junior high kids do it.

There was a technology land where we played in a wind tunnel and hovercraft and some other sciecey thing, but the musuem closed at 5 and we had to leave. we had planned to take a look at nagoya castle but spent too much time in the musuem.


we walked over to midland towers next to go to the observation deck and meet up with dima. Unfortuantely, it started rains adn the observation deck is open air, so we got pretty wet. The view was preety cool, with the nicest being twisty building and the jr towers. We started till dark and keegan and i found a unagi restaurat.

The restaurant specialized in eel, which is a nagoya specialty. There was an instruction guide on how to eat, which was interesting. The first step is eat eel and rice. the 2nd step is to added some spring onions and eat some. the final step is to add some broth. I prefered eating it plains but the broth was neat too.

after the eel keegan and i went looking for some other specialities, a flat noodle and miso udon. Unfortuanately, noodle restaurants closed early, as they are primarily lunch, so we found nothing. We went to th convieniance store and bought some ice cream bars and sake instead.

The sake was not back, similar to rice wine and the bars were chocolate and milk tea flavored, which was good. on tv they were showing some eating contest with was crazy. The women ate like 60 plates of tampura, 50 plates of udon, 30 plates of steak...ect.