Aug 14 walkabout






 We had to leave our recent Airbnb and find a new one. Typhoon 7 is on the path to strike Kyoto. They are cancelling the bullet train which we were going to take. So we decided to move to a different part of Toyko. What a find. It's totally in the mix. Just check out these streets. Crazy. We found this beef bowl restaurant. Omg. It was absolutely amazing. Wilson kept saying this is raw. I said it's not. The meat was so incredibly tender. I used Google translate to ask how it was cooked and what part of the cow is used. They said it's the shoulder and they boil low heat  in a bag in water. Then they barely seared the meat in the pan with a little oil. Just incredible . Going to try to repeat this when we get back. It was served with garlic rice and coleslaw. There was a horseradish mayo that was drizzled over the top. Yum!!  Then we went to an.Osen. An Osen is a hot springs with different pools ranging from.a cool.pool to 106 hot pool.  There was also a sauna. There were showers with soaps shampoos lotions all kinds of amazing bath accessories. I tried the sauna. Couldn't last more than 3 min. There was also a lying pool. It's very shallow with a wood block. You lay on your back and could see the clouds blowing by. No photos whatsoever were allowed understandably. Tomorrow is our last day. Will be interesting to see if our flight will be cancelled or delayed on the 16. Id rather have that instead of flying into a typhoon!!  Will see which direction it takes. Until tomorrow!

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