We ate ramen then ice cream.

17:03 Saturday 24 December 2016 JST

Now we are headed to a hot foot bath, which I guess is 足温 泉足おんせん in Japanese. Oops it’s 足湯うあしゆう

Good for me since I’m barefoot, and it’s about 3C outside.

18:02 Saturday 24 December 2016 JST

mmmmm that was nice. Also nice to talk to some of the locals. I dropped the anger that usually comes up when people tell me how “good” my Japanese is, and just talked to them the best I could. They asked which country I was from, then about Trump, then how long we had been in Niigata. “Two days” gained us “welcome to Niigata” in reply.