Kumamoto - sunny and 21°C.

Kumamoto - sunny and 21°C. We realised that we booked the next transit day on the Sunday when Japan has its labour-day long weekend. So we better reserve seats early for going back to Tokyo, which will entail two 3+ hours train rides (still boggles my mind how you can cross half of the country in just 6 hours, and it isn’t a small country!) We walked the 45 minutes back to the main station - my IC card didn't have enough money on it for taking the tram back, but also we love walking Japanese cities, that’s basically what we do all day every day. It hasn't been the most picturesque walk though, there are lots of big roads, fairly busy with traffic - similarly to Morioka, another medium-sized town, there seems to be more car traffic than in the huge cities, or at least it's harder to avoid it here. On the way we saw the window of a coffee shop with a handdrawn bicycle on it, so naturally, we had to go in and grab a coffee. While we waited for our order, the only other two people in the…

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