10 November 2026
Night time repeats
Tsuruga port at night
My last night in Tsuruga, probably ever, freezing cold, time to wander down to the ocean and marvel at how quiet and cold it was. There was absolutely nothing going on at the port, so I high tailed it back to the department store, where the cinemas on the upper level were showing the Ozzy Osbourne farewell concert (seriously).
After a tour of all the floors and failing to get to the roof, it was time to find dinner, and it seems Tsuruga loves all the brown foods, I too am a fan. Brown foods are better than orange foods, but green foods are best.
This all ended in a startling health food discovery as you shall see.
Yeah, most of these photos are just making up the numbers.
First repeat, the same building from during the day yesterday, now at night, with even less going on.
Second repeat, the police boat, which is now joined by even more police boats. They must have a lot of ocean based crime in Tsuruga, but only during daylight hours.
Not a repeat, the "Port of Humanity Tsuruga Museum", let me find out what that is. OK, as I thought, it a refugee museum, but the reviews are funny, because it says the staff will give children a dinosaur magnet. Nothing helps kids remember the plight of starving Polish refugee children like a dinosaur.
Back to the main street, and the place I had selected for dinner, a Korean restaurant, was closed on Tuesdays.
And so as mentioned, more brown food it was, this time Sapporo style soup curry. Even better, vegetable Sapporo soup curry, so bringing together the brown and the green foods. I see in Sapporo there has been over a foot of snow, with people saying it is 3 weeks too early for that kind of snow. I suspect the same weather is here in Tsuraga making it so cold today.
Having photographed everything else, it is, in fact, a supermarket.
But what have I found here? Acai bowl, as a drink. The health food sensation is now a sugar filled soft drink brought to you by a man smoking a pipe. Excellent.
Tomorrow I go to Nagoya, allegedly the boring city, but I like it a lot, it is a very large city so no more supermarket photos.