5 November 2024
First real mall of the trip
Aeon style Nagoya Noritake
After a very long day I intended to cross the road and go underground for coco curry for dinner. But then I could not find it in the labyrinth of underground malls under the station despite having already walked past it numerous times.
I looked on the map for curry thinking I might find it, and the map scrolled to a regular sort of mall not too far away with Samurai Sapporo style curry. Decision was made.
Noritake seems to not just be a mall but also a nearby museum and garden. I do not think the Aeon mall was there last time I was here, it seems very new and modern.
I was a bit concerned I would be too late for food at the mall and would have to go back to the station area, where things would stay open late, but much to my surprise, everything was still open, so now I am full of Samurai Sapporo style curry.
Just outside of my hotel, Asahi has been trying to give away 0% alcohol beer for a few days now, without much success. The 200 yen on the sign is to buy food to go with it. I had one of these zero alcohol beers at a car show in Tokyo years ago. It was terrible.
The mall itself encourages people to walk laps. OK then.
The food area was on 3 levels. And all looked very good. In fact most of the mall was devoted to food, quite unusual.
Here is my soup curry, with 20 kinds of vegetables! It was great.
But wait, on the top level, a food court. I could have got a cheaper dinner! I doubt any of the food court options came with 20 different vegetables. I made the right choice.
And for my final pic of a long day, here is about half of the Aeon mall at Noritake. There is more to my left.
Tomorrow will be a rest day. I am down one hike in Nagoya due to the rain early on. Due to the length of today's hike a double up would seem unwise, so now I have no plan for my 'rest day'. My rest days still get at least 30,000 steps, it is just that they are not steps taken getting up a cliff.