Narita Shopping Adventure

After breakfast this morning, we ventured out to explore Narita. Everyone in Japan is so kind. At one point we were looking at our map trying to decide which way to go and a lovely young Japanese girl stopped to ask if she could help.

There was a shrine that Chuck wanted to visit that was in the heart of the historic old town shopping district. After the shrine visit, we had fun wandering through over a hundred shops looking at food and clothing and assorted gifts. There was a shop that dealt totally with traditional Chinese folk medicine and other shops that sold eel in every conceivable form .

Brandon Stillinger is our yard maintenance person and he loves anything Japanese. His wife Katie often fixes Japanese food for him so our mission today was to buy Brandon and Katie all sorts of Japanese snacks and spices. I truly have no idea what I’ve gotten him, but I know he has savory things and sweet things and a few other little goodies thrown in. It will be fun to give these to him when we get home. On the way back to the hotel we got ice cream cones. It’s 92° outside now so we will stay inside in our wonderfully air-conditioned hotel room and drink cold water for a bit.Read more