More Information about Choshi Tower

November, 2002

Just before the entrance to the tower, there was a series of produce and vegetable stands. Of course you could taste many delicious foods such as mackerel marinated in miso, mackerel marinated in sake lees, pickled mysterious vegetables (in bright orange, purple, and yellow hues) not to mention the salted jellyfish.

At the top of the tower, there was a cafe called "Cafe Du Mambo." This is not a latin dancing cafe, as I first assumed, but a "Sunfish" (Mambo in Japanese) cafe. Have you ever seen a sunfish? They are very freaky. There was one at the Monterey Bay Aquarium that I loved to watch. They kind of look like a mutant Dopey (of the seven dwarfs fame.)

Mia got some milk to drink. Naoto felt ill. I took many many terrible photos I immediatly deleted from our digital camera.

Okay, some of my photos turned out all right. The view from the tower was of the ocean and the Tonegawa river (the second widest river in Japan.) Rivers tend not to be too wide in Japan. They are mostly little run-off streams coming down from the mountains all over this tectonic nightmare of a country. (There tends to be a lot of dust in Japan. I am convinced that also can be blamed on the tectonic movement)

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