11 November 2024
Trouser presses and dinosaurs
Fukui station area
There are actually a lot of choices for eating places in Fukui, even on a Monday. I was surprised.
The local covered shopping street (yes I know it is called a shotengai) however was abandoned. Some shops are now someones car park. Also it seems to be Hungarian themed. Is theming your shopping street based on a European country a thing to do? Remember the France themed one in Nagoya?
I think the things to see away from the station area itself were probably mostly closed on Monday's, there is an old down town area that I walked through earlier that all looked closed so I will save that for another night. Also they do not have dinosaurs in that part of town.
There are however a lot of new places to eat around the station (not just in it) and they all largely seemed to be open.
If you need your trousers pressed, Japan is your place. I bought 4 pairs with me and pressed them simultaneously, while standing there in my underpants.
Here is a kind of shopping street near my hotel. It is all nice looking, but a few places along here were either closed or abandoned. The old department store that is not part of the station here in Fukui is Seibu. I will probably take photos of that on another night as they have a restaurant floor.
Here is Hungarian Shotengai. It is very short.
Random street scene. Note the tram tracks. The actual tram cars are all very new, I was hoping to see some old rattly ones.
This is one of the new funky shopping / eating areas near the station. You can tell it is new because all the air conditioning ducting is visible, and they did not put anything over the concrete floor, as is the style of the day. However there were probably 10 or so tiny little places to eat in here.
So I ate at one of them, and had... taco rice. The pride of Okinawa, although they have it with spam. It was quite nice actually, and $7!
And as we started with the trouser press, so we must end with something nearly as ancient, another dinosaur.
Tomorrow is a hiking day. The hikes around here are all a bit shorter.. so I will find a way to make them longer!