8 November 2026
More brown food
Tsuruga station area
In my quest to space out photos of different areas of Tsuruga, tonight was the station area and the local department store, which appears to be called AL.
It being a Sunday, some things were closed, I noticed a lot of the restaurants that were open last night were garage doors tonight. There were also youths roaming on girls bikes with baskets. I made sure to walk diagonally to get in their way on purpose.
Despite the convenient roof overhead of all the streets I was walking down, it did not rain, so on my way back from dinner, I diverted down back streets, many of which had lights suggesting activities were going on inside darkened speakeasy's, I reported them all to the local police.
AL Plaza department store, the pride of Tsuruga. With 2 food courts, a games arcade, a cinema, a supermarket, car parking! Oh my.
Near the station is this grassed area, a combo of fake and real grass, I walked on both, I think I prefer real grass.
I was mildly amused that Tsuruga has a night time entertainment information booth. Well normally these things are all for night time entertainment, but this one includes fishing and shrines.
There is the station at night, the solar cells in the middle or the road were not producing much voltage.
A lot of the restaurants were closed on Sunday, but there are at least 10 food trucks down the main street, with decent seating areas.
However this nearby restaurant is probably annoyed that the food truck set up right out the front.
I mentioned the statues down all the streets, here is one, there does not appear to be any specific theme.
I doubled back to the department store, which was probably about to close early, here it is. There is a Muji inside too.
Sadly the upper food court was closed, I am not sure if this is a Sunday thing or if it is not open at night, I will check on it again tomorrow to find out.
And for dinner, omurice, not from Coco but a cafe that had an extensive menu of all the favourites. The owner decided to speak English to me, and then expressed his absolute shock that I would stay in Tsuruga 4 nights, and the only activity I am here for is to march up the nearby mountains.
And on that note, tomorrow is not a hiking day... but I think there will be a hill involved with a view.