Day 2

I managed to navigate my way from Mune's house to the train station (harder than you might think since I have an horrible sense of direction and I couldn't read any of the street signs!). My plan for the day: walk around Tokyo by myself. First, I checked out the Seiyu supermarket near the station. The fish and vegetables were so beautiful that I filmed them with my video camera! Then I went upstairs to the "general store" section, where I tried on a couple of hats. I bought some socks for my wife and was proud when I quickly counted out the correct change to give the cashier!

Before boarding the train, I bought some candy at the stand on the platform. One thing that I thought was grape gum turned out to be chewy grape taffy; another thing that I thought was lemon drops turned out to be little, soft sticky cubes of some other fruit-flavored candy. For the life of me, I couldn't figure out how to get the wrapper off of the sticky cube candy. It was so thin! I looked totally foolish on the train, of course, trying to peel the paper off of the candy (and remembering that eating on the train was a no-no). But I found out later that it had been even worse than I had thought: a friend of Mune's told me, "Oh, that old fashioned kind of candy? You're supposed to eat it with the paper on, not peel it off! How humiliating!