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YOKOHAMA TO TOKYO TO SENDAI ON THE BULLET TRAIN

After the cruise, we spent two nights at the Sheraton Yokohama Bay.  A pattern is forming:

  • Breakfast comes free with the room, and the buffet is grand and wonderful.  We eat so much that lunch is mostly unnecessary,
  • Then there is the cocktail hour with appetizers.  
  • We thus in four days including the first day of our train trip have yet to eat in a restaurant.
  • There are variations to the above, but the following photos showcase cuisine more than travel scenes.  Our room was not ready when we checked into the Sheraton Yokohama Bay, so had a snack in the executive lounge.  No alcohol served until 5PM.

A large underground shopping area is located below our hotel.  We went for a walk and saw the typical $131/pound wagyu beef.  We bought some o-toro and hamachi sashimi, onigiri and potato salad, plus beer and sake to have a light lunch in our room.

We returned to the Executive Club at 5PM for cocktails and appetizers.
Breakfast the following morning, followed by sashimi, Shanghai soup dumplings and drinks in the evening in the Executive Club.
Noticed I had not changed my pedometer settings for three days, so the average for that period was 3923 steps/day.

Today we train to Sendai.  But first, breakfast.
We caught a regular Japan Railway train to Tokyo Station from Yokohama Station, which is in walking distance of the Sheraton Yokohama Bay.  Our Shinkansen,
Small snack on the train,
Just outside the Sendai Station we saw our hotel, the Westin...the tall black structure in the background.  Was a 15 minute walk.
Our room was not quite ready, so we spent some time in the executive club.  Beer and wine are served all day here,
Our room view.
Then at 5PM we went down to the Executive Club, where the drinks were upgraded to scotch.  The food was exceptional. We spent three hours here.
Walked 4529 steps today.
The breakfast buffet at the Sheraton Yokohama Bay is excellent.  At the Westin Sendai it is even better.  Rather than bring all the food to our table and have one meal, I first brought a ramen with sidelights, and followed with other dishes.
Remember that photo of the Westin Sendai from Sendai Station?  This is from the 26th floor of the Westin looking back at the station, located just left of the blue/red building.
The Fall colors are only just beginning to show in Sendai.  From our room on the 36th floor.

Today, we'll walk around a bit, and probably have lunch at a wagyu steak house in Sendai Station.  With that breakfast and later Executive Club, this will be way to much food, but this has been a tradition with us since our first visit four years ago,  Tomorrow we have a long day to Hakodate on the bullet train, then transfer to a slower train to Sapporo.  Might snow on Hokkaido.
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