Today Jodie, Fiona and I were planning to go to go to Wakayama, but the two of them had gone skiing yesterday, and their legs really didn’t feel up to it (I can’t say I blame them – I felt half buggered and didn’t even have the day of travel and exercise as an excuse). We decided instead to go to see a movie in Kobe, and do some quality hanging around.
We met up and headed into Mint Kobe - I have never been into this building before, even though it is right near Sannomiya station. It was super fancy, even though it was a little complicated to navigate. We got ourselves to the 9th floor to buy our tickets for the Green Hornet, managed to get ourselves seats for the 3:30 session thanks to the good English of the lady behind the counter, then explored some of the underground tunnels around Sannomiya station (which I didn't even know existed - thanks Jodes!) to find some lunch. We found a nice little French bakery, with beautiful pastries, decent coffee and French radio playing.
We got ourselves some popcorn for the movies (it is still expensive, but not as bad as in Australian cinemas), and saw the Green Hornet. We all quite liked it - it was a funny and fun superhero movie. I definitely walked away with a crush on Kato (I think Jodes and Fiona did too?). When the movie finished, we wandered around some of the bigger department stores in search of a diary for Jodes, so I actually got to see Loft and Tokyu Hands for the first time. Tokyu Hands (a kind of DIY department store) was really cool - they had these series of 100 Hint cards to tell you how to do all kinds of random crap - from making cocktails to applying eye makeup to changing your bike brakes to hanging a picture frame. I got some of the cards on bike maintenance, because I think my poor old pushie needs some love. After shopping, we went for dinner at a 280 yen izakaya then all headed home. It was a nice lazy day, without trying to achieve anything too ambitious or even very practical. And I liked the movie.
Food Highlight of the Day: Frozen strawberries filled with condensed milk for dessert at the izakaya.
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