This evening we were very kindly invited to our friends' apartment in Tokyo for dinner. We were both very excited to see them again and meet their gorgeous new baby boy Kaoru and play with the very affectionate cat, Gen.
Mai met us at their nearby station and guided us to their apartment. Now, imagine seeing this from your front door every day. The view was stunning and the photo doesn't really do it justice:
...this was the first time we had seen Mount Fuji in its full glory - the cloud and haze was too thick four years ago - so we stood in awe on their doorstep for a while.
Mai and Yukio served us an amazing array of Japanese food. We had edamame (soybeans), tori kara age (fried chicken), yaki soba (fried noodles), tofu and a delicious platter of sashimi, nori & sticky rice, all accompanied by an assortment of Japanese beer. And if that wasn't Japanese enough, we even had a small earthquake as we sat and chatted (although we initially thought that the beer was going to our heads, the building gently swaying below us).
And so we say a big thank you and a fond farewell to Mai, Yukio and Kaoru and hope to see you all in London one day. Domo arigato gozaimashita!
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