Yoshi is a retired school English teacher. He taught for over thirty years in the school system then had a private classroom where he taught for many more.
I arrived in Osaka late Sunday evening and took a room at the Osaka airport hotel. I could have gone into Osaka but the train station is at the airport as well so for the difference in cost i stayed at the airport. Surprisingly it wasn't that much more expensive. Thirty bucks, maybe.
Monday morning i took the express train to Kyoto and met Yoshi. We, then, boarded a local train for Otsu some 20 miles to the East. I am guessing at the mileage but it wasn't far.
Otsu is located at the southern end of Lake Biwa(Biwako), the largest fresh water lake in Japan. There is a song about the lake. If you coax me i will sing it for you in English and read it for you in Japanese. In Otsu, Yoshi introduced me to several governmental officials involved in the international work Yoshi is involved in the international society and works with the Shiga prefecture to develop relations with Michigan and several cities, Traverse city being one of them.
The food was very classy. We ordered something, well.. Yoshi ordered i couldn't read the menu. the meal was in courses so when the first course arrived on a big plate with a large silver dome cover, i thought i would not finish the first course. The waitress lifted the cover to reveal a leaf of lettuce, a tomato slice and not much more. It continued this way the the entire meal, big plate large dome, no substance. Good food though.
Lunch done we drove to Koka City, his town and met more people.
Koka City is the central government for five surrounding town that grouped together. more later.
As i said i returned to Seoul today, but that is another story.
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