Bicycle racer

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It is 6:30 a.m. Oct. 24.
Now a man is sleeping in my room; it is Koba.

He moved to his hometown, Ina city, Nagano pref. (長野県伊那市), out of Tokyo at the beginning of August this year and Today (Oct. 23) he came to Tokyo from Nagano, a distance of about 240km, by bicycle for pleasure.
Yesterday in the early morning he left Ina city for Tokyo via Yamanashi pref. (山梨県) and stayed in the building of Sagami-ko station on JR Chuo line (JR中央線相模湖駅) for about 2 hours in the midnight (like the homeless!) but was not able to sleep there because it was cold therefore went to an Internet Cafe in Hachiohji city (八王子市) and took a rest there since about 6 to 11 a.m. (like a Net Cafe refugee!**)

I said to him, "how crazy you are!"

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About 7 p.m. I rendezvoused with him at Sanseido Shoten (三省堂書店) (a book store), Jinboh-cho (神保町).
He said that he had parked his bicycle in an university near which he had lived in Shinjuku ward (新宿区) until August.

About 8 p.m. we went to Yarou Ramen (野郎ラーメン), which I had visited but which had closed because the soup had been sold out last Saturday, but it closed because of the same reason.
Kuso Yarou! Condemned to hell! I will never visit this shop!

There was no use in complaining then.
We chose Mita Seimenjo Kanda (三田製麺所 神田店) which was near Yarou Ramen and which I had visited last week because in the first place Koba came to Tokyo in order to eat Tokyo tsukemen; he said that there was no good ramen or tsukemen shop in Ina city maybe because in Nagano buckwhaet had been grown for a long time therefore Soba (蕎麦) noodle was prefered to other noodle dishes.


Extralarge-sized hot tsukemen

I chose extralarge-sized hot tsukemen (辛つけめん特盛) (850 yen) and he chose large-sized tsukemen (つけめん大盛) (700 yen.)
He had a hard fight with large-sized in order to eat up all maybe because he was tired.

After going out of the shop, about 9 p.m. we went to Ueno (上野) from Kanda through Akihabara (秋葉原), in a distance of 2.3 km on the railway, by walk in order to visit Shinjuku Shoten Ueno (新宿書店 上野店) and buy hayauri Weekly Shonen Jump (週刊少年ジャンプ) there.

And in my room we watched videos and DVDs with beer drinking until midnight.


In my room