November 28, 2025, Breakfast at Hotel Lunch - Sandwich on train. Dinner - Nobunaga Ramen noodle shop

November 28, 2025, Breakfast at Hotel Lunch - Sandwich on train. Dinner - Nobunaga Ramen noodle shop

We went down to eat at 7:30. It was mostly the usual stuff. I had not eaten much dinner, so was weak. I started by eating a bowl of broth with rice, nori slivers, and grilled fish. As I got strong enough to add items Suzette brought me a toasted croissant and noted there were cream puffs.

I took three meatballs, a variety of pickles, slices of sautéed fish, and two slices of omelet with another bowl of rice in broth. I finally drank tea and ate custard, raisin cake, and a cream puff.

We then went to MUFG in the next block to see if they could help me register my Indian bank stock. They could not, MUFG is organized by Country. But I was able to determine that the window for submitting form for registering my shares in order receive last year’s dividend had closed. So, at 9:30 we took a taxi to the train station and boarded the bullet train to Tokyo at 11:20 after finding a French bakery and buying lunch. Suzette took an egg salad filled croissant and I took a traditional short baguette filled with lettuce and slices of roast beef, ham, and cheese. We also bought a small bag of legit chocolate chip chocolate brownies.

We ate on the train and the high point of the trip was seeing Mount Fuji cloaked in snow.

We arrived in Tokyo in three hours after three of four stops and taxied to our hotel even though it was only three or four blocks from the train station.

Suzette checked us in and went to the room and I stayed to ask about art museums. About 20 minutes into the conversation Willy walked in from his flight from Hanoi.

We went to the two room apartment and he made us herbal tea and we talked for about an hour and then rested until 6:30.

Suzette and Willy compared restaurant reviews of ramen restaurants in the area and decided to go to Nobunaga about three blocks from the hotel that was highly rated. It took me a little extra time to walk there because my body had still not recovered from lack of dinner last night. 

When we arrived Willy ordered us each a large bowl of ramen with chicken and two eggs. 

It was delicious but more than each of us could eat. Willy got close but we had to buy take out containers for the rest of Suzette and my ramen. Now we have food for days of snacks.

I was able to walk back to the hotel without a lot of stops and when we arrived Willy put the Thanksgiving Cowboy Football game summary on. This year it was against the Kansas City Chiefs, so a real test of Dallas’ skill and stamina and it was a great game, Dallas won, 31 to 28.

We then watched the Cincinnati v. Baltimore and Green Bay v. Detroit Lions Thanksgiving games and finally Everton v. Arsenal of the PL. Arsenal is on top of the PL 6 points clear of the next closest team. I went to bed around 9:00 after another cup of tea and a peanut cookie.

Bon Appetit