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It was deadly cold today too, and moreover, the wind blew heavily.
I met Koba at Akihabara about 7:30 p.m. in order to eat Mammoth Curry* (マンモスカレー) because we were not able to eat it though we visit it last Tuesday.
Before we visit Mammoth Curry, we went to a secondhand book store Bookoff there.
I watched a very famous and big hit movie Yougisha X no Kenshin (容疑者Xの献身) (The Devotion of Suspect X**) so I wanted its original same-titled novel written by Higashino keigo (東野圭吾)... Call me a "mie-her," copycat or lowbrow if you want!
I bought this novel (400 yen) as well as Tantei Garireo (探偵ガリレオ) (the detictive Garireo) (200 yen) and Yochimu (予知夢) (predictive dream) (350 yen) written also by the same author and these novels have the same main character: a 34 year-old associate professor of physics Yukawa Manabu (湯川学).
After left Bookoff about 9:00 p.m. we visit Mammoth Curry but it showed us the sign of "closed" (「準備中」) in front of its entrance in spite of the fact that its website said that shop hours are between 11 a.m. and 10 p.m!
I got mad at its closing so I sent an E-mail to its address shown at the website after I got home "when are you open? We have visited you twice but you were always closed!"
We had no alternative but to visit Densetsu no Suta-don ya* (伝説のすた丼屋). We did not go to a ramen shop such as Ramen Kagemusha (らーめん影武者) or Hakata Furyu (博多風龍) which are both located in Akihabara because I will not eat ramen in the 6 days as I decided the day before yesterday.
We had not visited this shop since we came to it last October.
When we got there there were already customers waiting in line therefore we also had to wait in deadly cold air.
I chose large-sized Suta-don (すた丼飯増し) (690 yen) and Koba ordered normal-sized Suta-don (600 yen).
large-sized Suta-don
The outside of Suta-don; it was about 10 p.m. when I took this pic but many Suta-don fans were still waiting in line.
After leaving this shop about 10 p.m., we chatted at McDonald's, Suehiro-cho (末広町) until 0 a.m.
We were listening to many Hard Rock, Heavy Metal on Youtube through the internet with my laptop computer today, too.
After we left each other when I was waiting a train at Yushima station (湯島駅), we got an E-mail from Koba. It said that he missed the last train on Ginza subway line from Suehiro-cho station (末広町駅) therefore he had to go to Akihabara station in order to take a train on the JR line from there to Takada-no-baba station (高田馬場駅) and had to go by walk on the way home which took 20-30 minutes from Takada-no-baba.
What's pity to walk through deadly cold air in the night!
After getting home I received an E-mail with some pics from my younger brother living in Niigata city, Niigata prefecture (新潟県新潟市) which is one of the snowiest regions in Japan.
He reported that it was the first time for him to see such heavy snowfall since he stared living there 3 years ago. And he said "I woke up in the morning, my car disappeared in the snow (laugh.)"
A TV news also said that the ground was covered with 80 cm of snow in Niigata city.
My younger brother's car; rescue it right now! (photo taken by himself)
It was deadly cold in Tokyo today too, and moreover, the wind blew heavily here.
Therefore I closed rain shutters (雨戸) of my room in order not to avoid rain- or snowfall (in fact it was neither raining nor snowing here then) but to protect my room from cold air itself and keep it warm when I went to bed.
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