Today we visited all of Hikone. First we went to the Hikone Chamber where we were able to here all about the industries in the Shiga prefecture. Hikone developed a marketing campaign with this little warrior cartoonish guy (see picture to the left) who is a big deal in Hikone. Every shop sells things that have this guys picture on it. It is very interesting. Afterwards we went to Castle Road and ate lunch at a resturant that, I didn't realize this until afterwards, was a Korean restuarant. I ordered a bowl of food that said was beef and vegetables; I thought it would be safe and also would taste good. I got the food and everything was in a bowl and the waitress told me to stir it up so I started stirring and uncovered numerous vegetables I had never seen before and also an uncooked egg. I figured the egg would cook after I stirred it up so that didn't bother me but I tried the food and there were just wayyyyyy to many different flavors in there, my mouth had no idea what was going on. On a brighter side the beef tasted very good. After lunch we went to the local shopping street called Hana-Shobu Shotengai. There we were able to visit a traditional Japanese hotel, a fish and vegetable store, a cake shop and many others. Next we went to Toshiro Odagaki's, a painter in Hikone, art studio. He and his wife gave us some Japanese sweets and cakes and then he painted ink drawings for us. He drew bamboo, a frog and a flower. He was very fast and talented. So I am pretty sure we saw all of Hikone today!
-Lauren
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