kurogane wrote:Nah, just boredom and occupational hangover (the Tourism thing).
I took a friend to Hakone recently. Booking was too tight to accommodate us at the ryokan for food (doesn't say much about the freshness of whatever they do serve) so we had to eat out....and holy shit, the very few local eateries were pretty horrible....but packed. Eventually settled on a little "italian" joint that was pretty decent...just with tourist pricing