First Day In Japan!

On our first full day in Japan, Heather took us out and gave us a tour of the town. She picked us up in her sweet lime green station wagon and we went to a cool sushi go 'round. I've eaten a lot of sushi and been to a couple sushi go 'rounds, but I had never seen a place this cool! The sushi conveyer belt  takes up the entire center of the restaurant, and there are booths all along the outside. Every single kind of sushi is $1, so you can pick any kind you want without having to study a colored plate chart (like at the other ones we've been to). 

The sushi was SO good! They also had plates going around with pictures of desserts, toys, and cell phones on them. But we haven't quite figured those out yet. The coolest part were their prizes.  On each table was a slot that you slid your empty plates into. Above each booth was an iPad. And every time you dumped an empty plate into the slot in the table, the iPad kept track. When you got to 10 plates, a machine above the iPad released a plastic bubble that dropped down to your table, with a toy inside! 

You could also order food other than sushi, on the iPad. They had udon, tempura, and various other things. We decided to order some shrimp tempura just to see how it worked. There was a second conveyer belt above the sushi, and when you ordered from the iPad, your food sped down the top belt super fast, and stopped right in front of your booth. It was so cool! 

After lunch, we checked out two friends' off-base houses. We were pretty sure living off base would be the right choice for us, but we wanted to check out all of the options, just to be sure. The Japanese houses are so cool (pictures to come). I can't remember what else we did that day. We probably napped and tried to adjust to the new time zone :)