Last Full Day in Japan

We spent the day once again walking around a rainy city. We just went back and hit all the places we wanted to revisit and pick up stuff in Nakano and Shibuya.

Two interesting things I actually have pix of... One is the car turner outside of the parking garage. All of the cars are backed out of the garage onto this giant disk that turns the car around so they can pull straight out onto the street. The model of efficiency...



The other interesting item for the day is that, when it rains, all of the shops put out plastic bags to put your umbrella in whil you are in the store. This saves the floor from getting slick and keeps you from getting water all over their merchandise, but I bet it is really just to be nice and polite like everything else here. Some of them even have little contraptions that you just stick the umbrella into and it comes out wrapped...



Well, that's the last blog from the land of the rising sun. See you in the States if our plane doesn't decide to plummet into the coast of Alaska...