Near home

 This is the VisAVis cake shop. Everything here is just a little sweeter than we like it, but all the food in Fukuoka is sweeter than in Sendai. We bought a cake each plus a butter cake, a small yellow cake with a butter based frosting.

 Japanese cake shops always have a display counter like this. When I look at all the different cakes, I have trouble making up my mind and want to buy one of each.

This, as the sign says, is a curry and hamburger restaurant named Yamato. Yamato is an old name for Japan. When we were eating out every day, we ate here once. The curry was good as were the hamburgers that went with the curry. Also it was very inexpensive. However, the servings were much too big and both my wife and I had to leave about a third of the serving on the plate. When you do that at restaurants in Japan, the staff always make a big deal out of it and want to know why you did not like the food. Making them understand that the servings are too big is sometimes difficult, so we tend to not go back to places like that, leaving them to younger people who have big appetites.