A typical Working from Hotel Day in Japan

Mitazono (The place we are staying) overall I feel is a pretty chill and relax town. There are not many people and pace of life is much slower compared to Singapore. The weather helps too as it is coming to the start of Autumn where temperature is at a nice spot to enjoy strolling on the street. A typical day spent while *OEE* is at his preschool is as below:

Morning

We try to make the 7.45am timing for the hotel breakfast where they served up Sendai specialty - Beef Tongue Stew. Well, it certainly feel tasty for the first few days but you will feel quite sick of it if you continue eating it every single day. Besides the stew, the pastry available are fresh and tasty, along with other dishes which they will rotate every day for the whole week. 

Typical breakfast variety at Super Hotel Mitazono Sendai Airport

After breakfast, we take a 45mins walk to the preschool to drop *OEE*, after which, we will either drop by a convenient store or we will head to the Aeon mall near Morisekinoshita Station to buy back some sandwich for lunch. One interesting thing we did for the first few days was to stop by 7-11 to try the self made smoothie that is only available in Japan.

7-11 self made smoothie

Aeon mall - our favourite hangout for the next 2 weeks

One discovery - Gong Cha tea is really nice! It certainly does not taste the same as Singapore

Afternoon

After the grocery shopping, it is time to head back to work. Before fetching *OEE* from school, we take the opportunity to visit the onsite hotel onsen to have a quick shower when it opens at 3pm. At this time, usually we can have the whole onsen to ourselves. One fact that we discover is that Japanese typically only stays a few mins to soak inside the onsen, unlike the perception that we should stay soaked as long as possible. Haha

Onsite hotel onsen

Beautiful evening

Evening

For dinner, we usually made our way to the Aeon mall food court to have our favourite ramen. I got myself the Nagasaki Champon, where they served a generous portion of soup, noodles and vegetables at an affordable price of 1100 yen (S$9.45). Yes, the champon is so good that I went back to eat it almost every single night!

Night

Night time was usually spent on bathing *OEE* at the onsen, catching up a bit on work while waiting for the clothes to finish washing at the laundromat before retiring for the night. If we do come back early after dinner, we will spend some time at the hotel self served alcohol bar that is open from 6-8pm, where a variety of wine, gin, whiskey, vodka, and sake are made available to drink to your content.