Trip 13 to Japan - October and November 2025 - Page 7 - 775

And so it was back to the station for Tonkatsu from famous chain brand Saboten. Slightly more expensive than other similar places, but you get to do a lot of extra steps for your dinner and watch tables full of people smash plates and fire chopsticks across the restaurant (4 separate incidents while I was there). You see when you sit down they bring you sesame seeds in a mortar and pestle that you have to grind up. They also bring a pile of cabbage that you have to distribute into another bowl and add dressing to. There are also teapots of different sauces, and the cabbage dressing choices in big bottles. Then there is also the miso soup, rice, pickled vegatables, cup of tea. For me at a table for 2 on my own, I could manage, just. But when they put 4x as much stuff at a table for a group of 4, there is not enough room, and people grinding their sesame seeds and juggling sauces send a lot of crockery flying.
Tomorrow, you guessed it, is a hiking day.

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Date: 14 November 2025 Time: 19:56:26