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No luck with Kabuki
It's the 2nd week in a row that we go to Kabuki-za in Ginza, hoping to see Kabuki (traditional Japanese play), and again today no luck.
Last week it was sold out about 5 minutes before we got there, and today we hadn't checked the program before going, assuming it was the same as last week, and Kabuki-za was closed for a few days until the next program starts on September 2. Real bad luck!
We may be giving it another try next weekend if we don't have other plans.
Although I've been in Japan almost 3 years, I yet have to see Kabuki and am looking forward to it!
Instead we walked around in Ginza, and then all the way to Ochanomizu, and ate curry there at a restaurant called Ethiopia.
At that restaurant, you can decide of the amount of spice you want in your curry. Usually you are given a choice like "mild or strong" or similar, but there you have to choose a number between 0 and 70, 0 equaling the normal medium spicy, and 70 meaning 70 times spicier!
I went with 0 which was just fine for me, Tomoko went for 3 which was a bit spicier, other clients were going for 1 or 2... I wondered if anyone ever orders 70 times the spice...!
On our way to Ochanomizu, we passed by Marubiru (the Marunouchi building), and got to see the earthquake simulator located just outside.
It's a small room built onto a truck, and which can simulate an earthquake up to magnitude 7 on the Japanese scale (approximately 7.3 or higher on the Richter scale, or 11 on the Mercalli scale [ref #1] [ref #2]). I didn't give it a try though. :)
Earthquakes are frequent in many areas of Japan.
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Posted on August 30, 2003 at 22:44 | Tweet
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