We tried some famous castella cake from Nagasaki. It was quite average to me. But it was amazing how the staff took the effort to package two 105 yen piece of cake. Even put a waterproof casing over the cardboard bag.
After taking 2 trains to Okayama, we were pretty excited about this night train. We witnessed the magic moment of 2 train uniting. "and that's how baby trains are made" - said Jon.
Not knowing the horror coming up, we happily boarded our train.
We had 2 upper deck of nobi nobi seats. Our luggages just fit below our feet, one of the bonuses of being short.
My neighbour had a rolled up mattresses and pillows. So after settling down, I went around to hunt for pillows and there was NONE! There was paying showers for passenger in private compartment. Fortunately we were not too smelly in winter.
On our "bed" aka heated carpeted floor is a small pillow slip like sheet and a extremely thin blanket.
Jon used his jumper as a pillow and I used our inflatable neck pillow.
The thin blanket did not work very well as mattress. I had to turn every 30 mins or so, as my sides got achy from the hard floor.
Jon's neighbour had a kitten with him that meowed most of the night.
So by the time we reached Tokyo at 7am, we felt like we had never slept. Our hotel check-in time was at 3pm. It was a long long 8 hours. All we did was hanging around Akihabara till we could check in and rest.
It was one of those unique experiences in Japan, but I would never do it again.
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