Here in Okazaki we were visiting the castle where the first shogun, that is the guy to unite Japan, grew up. Okazaki is where we stayed in the Ryokan and also Masaki’s hometown. We got breakfast (typical Japanese style) prepared by his mum at his place!!! Oishii desu!! We also got lunch there (fresh Soba! also delicious) and then left for Tokyo.

After we did see the castle, which was quite fast, since it was raining quite heavily, we went to the Miso (paste and therefore soup) factory there. It is one of the oldest factories and has a guided tour oh and the soup there is "the Emperor’s choice" :) It was quite interesting especially since i really really like Miso soup :)

We went also to one of the biggest shopping malls in Japan, at least that is what Masaki tried to expain to Pipe and me =) And of course we have been to the Hello Kitty shop..

As mentioned before we took that (packed again) Shinkansen back to Tokyo, where we then went through Akihabara. Masaki also showed us the place where they bought the electronics for their CubeSat, well just a regular electronic store (but a few stories high and with every possible component you can think of :)).

We also went into a Maid Cafe which to be honest was just not really that cool, I guess it would have been nicer if I understood them (it was of course all Japanese) and there were just tons of weird guys in there. Okay I dunno what I was expecting...