Friday fun

First week of study at Yamasa is over. So far quite fun, although exhausting at times due to 6-7 hours of lessons per day and exercies+kanji practise on top of that (2-5 hours). Today, however, we went to Toyota's car factory, and did lots of sightseeing there. Quite interesting place, really. Surprisingly large, loud and organized.

After I split up with my fellow students, I headed to Tokugawa Ieyasu museum, which had number of interesting old items and tolerable garden. The most striking part about the old items were very old (13th century) swords, that were more than equal of the ones that were done in Europe in 16th and 17th century. Also, Hina Matsuri's doll collection was impressive; there
were even miniature Go/Shogi boards of different sizes for dolls..

After the museum closed, I walked halfway to Nagoya station (half of the 6-7km), saw some cherry blossoms in bloom (see attached picture), and then finally took subway the rest of the way (it was cold - today it actually snowed for a bit, although the air temperature was above zero so it melted very soon after).

Shopping excursion was very fun also, bought a Canon Wordtank G55 electronic dictionary (released today), as well as 1 manga book (Elfen Lied 2.. Now I have in 'pending' stack some Meitantei Conan, XXX-Holic and Inu Yasha in addition to that.. already read 2 manga books here though, good kanji practise).