14 November 2024
Last lap of a small town
Fukui station area again
Tomorrow I go back to Tokyo, there will be more food options there.
Tonight I did a lap of concentric circles around the Fukui station area, before eating a very interesting dinner inside the station. I have now completed a full audit of the streets within a 1 mile radius of Fukui station.
Have I learnt all there is to learn about dinosaurs? Probably not. Have I learnt all there is to learn about marketing your city using dinosaurs? Definitely.
I might complain about the lack of places to go at night, but I found plenty to do during the day around (but not in) Fukui. Both my hikes were excellent, and the dinosaur museum, although over hyped, was worth the $10 entry fee and interesting train/bus journey.
I found a little small arcade area behind the cinema that I had not seen before. The shop with the flags is secondhand clothes. There are a lot of secondhand clothes shops here.
I went back to the new mini eating place with the exposed duct work. I could of easily had dinner here, but I wanted something that was not part of the standard Japanese food offering, and I had already had the taco rice.
There is a tram network as I mentioned. It appears to go to nowhere in particular. Here is one of the trams. Disappointingly modern.
There are not many places to eat outside of the station, but there is an umbrella shop, open late on weeknights.
And for an unknown reason, the post office has a display in the window of all the instant curry mix boxes someone has collected, plus dinosaurs of course.
And here is my dinner. From the Chinese place in the station. It is mushroom and pork in starch sauce, poured into a ridiculously hot cast iron pot filled with burnt rice crispy squares. Really, the rice was just like rice crispy squares, you can see a bit of one in the top left of the above pic. There were a few of them in the bottom of the hot pot, the starchy sauce with mushrooms and veg gets poured over and they soften up and break apart. It was really delicious. I have not had anything like it before.
Tomorrow, trains and Tokyo.