Morning Panic! Evening Joy...

Reached my hotel in Nagoya at 4pm, later then the expected time of 3pm... But I got reason! Anyway cycled a total of 73km today... A relatively short and flat trip... Very heavy traffic with lots of trucks...

Was scheduled to start off for Nagoya from 0900hrs... Only to find that my rear tire is punctured and 1 screw for my pannier rack is gone! Had a scare... And started trying to change the inner tube... Only to discover that I have forgotten to pack tire levers! Figuring it's only a slow leak... Pumped up the tire and decided to go ahead even with the screw missing... Brought tire levers from a shop later... It was good that my tire went flat (from a slow leak...)... Showed me that I have not packed enough tools and reminded me to get them! If it's a big hole and not a slow leak... I would be quite doomed without tire levers...

About 10km later... I remembered that the screw for the bottle cage is the same size as the pannier rack, so I removed it and used it where it's more important (anyway the bottle cage got bent in transit)...

Felt really hungry about halfway through the journey... Stopped at a roadside Yoshinoya to have gyudon with the truckers... Thousands of truckers pile the road of Japan... They prove to be the greatest threat to my safetly, but most of them are polite... honking me once to inform me and then overtaking me... First time I enjoyed Yoshinoya... The few times I tried it in Singapore... I never finish the food... I mean... Look at that oily fat piece of beef! Look! Look! I like my lipids...

Nagoya TV tower, as taken from the Aqua-Ship of Oasis 21... A shopping mall... The Aqua-Ship is a fountain about 4 stories of the floor... Quite a weird idea... Considering the pumps needed to pump so much water up!

Kishimen! This is a Nagoya speciality... Not really very special once you remember it's just flat udon...

Oasis 21 from the top of Nagoya TV tower... I love going up towers...

Misokatsu and tofu! The misokatsu is another Nagoya speciality... This 1 is great! Basically katsu (pork cutlet) with a layer of miso sauce... But the combination is wonderful... The tofu is plain... But shoyu gives everything flavor!

And here is the waitress from the Misokatsu store... She looks better in person... Really!

Will be spending my day exploring Nagoya tml... Non-cycling day... Will be visiting Nagoya Castle, Nagoya City Science Museum, Toyota Commemorative Museum of Industry and Technology an Osu Market... The Toyota Automobile Museum which I really really wanted to visit is closed for renovation... =/