Kumamon head at Kumamoto station. I actually wanted to go back to Fukuoka to take it easy but I could not get a hotel there on this Sunday. Getting hotels on Sundays is difficult and it was a 3 day weekend as well. My only choices were Kokura and Kumamoto and I decided on Kumamoto since I have not been back in ages.
Kumamoto sake festival next to the station. It was still early when I arrived and it had started to rain.
It was not as hot but it was miserably muggy. I was just glad that I have gone past the halfway point of the trip and no typhoons, quakes, heatstroke, covid and I was doing very well budget wise.
There is an Amu Plaza next to Kumamoto station now.
And a Bic Camera on the other side, albeit a smaller than usual one. Kumamoto has changed. The train station used to have nothing.
Went into Amu Plaza and they had this nice waterfall going on.
Put my bag down and went straight to Komurasaki, the OG Kumamoto ramen.
I will never forget the first time I had Komurasaki at the Shin Yokohama ramen museum and my mind was blown away. Now I would rate it as not bad.
Forgot that the old arcade in the basement has been replaced by a bookstore and Tsutaya. Finally time to buy Berserk.
Ended up buying 41 and 42 because I forgot if I had 41 so I now have 2 copies of 41.
I also received a gift from my friend, a Micchan towel from Slam Dunk.
You can see a suspicious looking fella waving from the top right of the building. Hard to see in the photo. Maybe time to spend money on a phone with good camera.
Food stalls with the concept of food that goes well with rice. It was drizzling and miserable weather.
Kumamoto castle in the distance...
Had a bit of Unagi to kill time.
I had decided that it was a rainy day was the perfect time for a movie.
The movie was Suomi no hanashi wo shiyou or All About Suomi by Mitani Koki. Nagasawa Masami plays Suomi, the wife of a wealthy. The rich guy gets this police officer played by Nishijima Hidetoshi to help investigate her disappearance but doesn't want it reported to the police. Nishijima also happens to be Suomi's ex husband and the the rich guy and police officer find out that both their idea of who Suomi are very different.
We are then introduced to the other husbands who were each married to a very different Suomi and comedy is who is the real Suomi. This is very much a Mitani Koki mystery movie set mostly in one set, which is the rich guy's house. Its is more similar to a two part episode of Furuhata Ninzaburo.
Sequel movie to Oda Yuji's Odoru Daisosasen. I never understood why it was so popular. Anyway, Nagasawa Masami steals the movie but I did not find it as funny as it tried to be. The worst part is when the truth was revealed, it gave me a feeling of so what?
There is an ending song and dance at the end about a certain city but there was no point to the movie unless you found it that funny. All About Suomi is a very meh movie. I don't dislike it but there is not really a story there. Better to rewatch 2 episodes of Furuhata Ninzaburo.
And ordered the roppaku kurobuta (black pig) roast katsu with prawn.
So effing juicy. I love kurobuta tonkatsu. So good.
Went for a walk and came across this yatai village.
Did not go to Kumamoto castle in the end.
There are more tourists in Kumamoto than I can remember.
I was walking around and realised all the bars I used to go in Kumamoto are gone. I'll save my drinking money for Tokyo but Kumamoto is cheaper.
1 streetpass! I wanted to go to Tengaiten which was my favourite Kumamoto ramen place but it only opens at night. They actually opened one at Kumamoto station. Unfortunately I fell asleep because I was too tired.
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