It has been such busy weeks for me from the end of April to last week
since my job has to do with education.
As I wrote a couple articles ago, students become new grades in April in Japan.
Students usually start new after school programs such as piano,
swimming, learning English, etc...
My job is correcting (checking) papers (7th graders English) at home.
I got many students this year, so had to correct many many papers every day!
Although I spent busy weeks, I went to 3 short trips.
Today, I am going to introduce my first trip to Sano,
where is a little northern part of Japan.
It takes about 2-3 hours by car from my apartment in Tokyo.
Sano city is in Tochigi prefecture:
http://diddlefinger.com/m/tochigiken/sanoshi/ (map)
(I hope you can see where the Sano city is...)
By Wiki, the city population is 124,001, and the total area is
356.07 km² (137.5 mile²).
The purpose of this trip was to see one of my old friend.
She got married and moved to this area three years ago.
There are some famous foods and places in Sano,
so she and her husband took us some of them.
First, Ramen noodles are famous here and there are many
Ramen noodle restaurants (about 200 shops in 137.5mile²!).
This is a quite famous Ramen shop called Ramen-Ogane.
Probably Ogane is the owner's last name.
The soup looked gold!
There are huge hams on top, so you can't see the noodls below... I'm sorry!
Also we ate Gyoza-dumplings: the ingredients are minced pork, cabbage, and
other veges.
After eating noodles, we went to a big Buddist temple called
Sano Yakuyoke-Taishi.
There was a big golden bell.
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