Hirosaki... after an adventure finding our hostel that included getting the car stuck in a narrow alley-ish street and having to do some tricky backing up manuevering, we checked in and the headed to Hirosaki Park. Former castle grounds, this park has over a thousand sakura trees and so it's hugely popular for flower-viewing. Thankfully (or unfortunately), most of the blossoms were finished so the crowds weren't that bad. The castle gaurd tower (the only remaining ruin - and i think it was rebuit) was pretty anticlimactic, especially since my last castle visit was Himeji, but the items on display inside were cool. Walking through the park we ran into Rob and Sherwin, two Akita JETs who also happened to be in town. They were looking for a place to stay so we directed them to our hostel. Then we all went out in search of dinner. We wandered ALL over town looking for this mythical Mexican restaurant for a good hour+. I was starting to doubt its existance, but then! At last! We
found Jalepen~o! It's a tiiiiny place with one cook, one server, and from the speed of the food, probably one burner. It took almost TWO HOURS to make tacos, nachos, and fajitas for 7 people!! And each person's order came out at a waaay different times! As a restaurant it basically failed. The food was good though! So, I was happy. I think I've lowered my standards. haha Anyway, we made it back to the hostel and I went to sleep!
Today it's off to Mt. Iwaki and the Aomori coast (Sea of Japan side)!
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