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I went to an English pub last night called Hub and had a pint of the golden nectar known as Guinness for 800 yen. I polished off most of a fish and chips plate which they rather incorrectly asserted was enough for three people. (more like three three year old children) I gambled 1000 yen away on pinball Pachinko yet came so close to winning big yen and ate in a Yakitori a small, cheap and traditional Japanese restaurant which serves skewered chicken and pork (and last night free beer as well)

This morning hungover I took Reiko to the train station on my battery powered bicycle of doom as I had the day off. Today to make up for the awful haircut I received (read the blog entry Bathe in an onsen don`t get your haircut there I went to a salon and got it cut properly. This involved consultation, cut, shampoo, excellent neck and shoulder massage (?) and styling. My first time in a salon. Four times as expensive but a million times better than the prancing and hair-fondling I was subjected to in the onsen.

I was surprised about the massage but then when you go to a Japanese institution you get treated as a valued customer anywhere you go and I think they try and take that as far as they can. There is an article about this with golf.

Quoting from the linked article from Kansai Time Out.

The Japanese have taken golf to a different level and it should be experienced. When was the last time you didn’t pay until the round was over? When have you ever ridden an escalator on a golf course, or had a robot carry your clubs for 18 holes? There is usually a snack bar complete with hot towels around the seventh and sixteenth holes for your comfort. At most courses, they take safety seriously and offer protective devices and fences that make you wonder how you ever played golf without them. My favorite so far has been the drying locker for my rain clothes, and the shoe dryer in the locker room after a particularly wet round.