14 April 2025
Eat early or go hungry
Kagoshima Nishiginza
Just North of the main station there are a few streets labelled Nishiginza, I decided to go and take a few photos of interesting lit up store fronts and restaurants. Most were bars but there were a couple of suitable solo diner places.
Before settling on eating in that street, I thought I would head into a different side of the station and check out the eating floor there, where I found out that most places were closing at 7:30pm, it was currently 7:28pm and they were not letting me in! So this became a food emergency, and thankfully the ramen 'street' in the basement delivered an option that was staying open until 11pm.
I warned that tonight's outing would be short and it was, but I do have an amusing story.
On my way back to my hotel I stopped at the convenience store to get a drink, and wander around as I do, and a young Australian couple were doing the same. They decided on a few things, including what appeared to be a bag of flavoured rice crackers, near the register on special (they were in front of me and discussing their choices). They go to pay and thankfully for them, the cashier was an Indian girl, who informs them in English that they were cat treats, and pointed to the cat on the packaging.
Tomorrow is city change day, I am going to Kumamoto, I have not been there before. It will not take long to get there but I will make that take all day, as I am due a rest day.
After thunder, rain and hail, I wondered what the weather would be like when I stepped outside. Clear blue sky of course. Kagoshima, the Melbourne of Japan.
It may be Monday night, but the PACHINKO & SLOT places are all full of people losing whatever money they earned today on their way home from work.
A dumpling shop. The little store was a building on it's own in a parking lot.
Not even sure what this was, but they have flowers and an outline of Sakurajima.
And on a night when there were never going to be many photo's here is my ramen, from the only place not closing at 7:30pm. It claims to be Kagoshima style, which seems to mean many vegetables. This particular store has a local Sakurajima special, which I think means they charge $2 extra for the same thing.
Now I will go to bed!