Chapter 205: The God of Sushi
After buying the plane, Shakru wanted to go back to New Delhi directly, but he was kept by the resentful Nanako Matsushima, hugged him and said coquettishly: "Boss, since the plague broke out in India, you haven't been to Japan, this time it's hard to come here, and you're in such a hurry to leave, don't you want people and Sister Iijima." ”
Shakru knew that he was at a loss, so he had to kiss Nanako and said, "How can it, it's not how busy it has been lately, okay, I'll accompany you two this time, you say, where do you want to play?" ”
Nanako Matsushima thought for a moment and said, "Okay, let's go eat sushi today, and then go to Mt. Fuji tomorrow for a bath, okay?" (The Japanese say that bathing is hot springs.)
For such a small request, Shakru naturally couldn't refuse. Since the sushi restaurant that Nanako Matsushima plans to take to Sakuru this time is underground in Ginza, it is more convenient to make a subway directly than by car. The subway line made by Nanako Matsushima and Shakru is called the Yamanote Line, and it basically goes around some of the busiest places in Tokyo.
In fact, in the station of the Yamanote Line, there is no Ginza station, but it is called Yurakucho Station, and from the southeast exit of the station is Ginza, but Shakuru did not even see the Ginza shopping street, and just after leaving the station, he entered the basement of a building, and then he saw a very small shop, all made of primary color wood, and a large "fish" word written on a white cloth curtain.
It is said to be one of the only two three-Michelin-starred sushi restaurants in Japan (there are only 68 three-Michelin-starred restaurants in the world), and it is called "Sukiya Hashijiro", but no one knows why it is named. The restaurant has no menu, no bathroom, and only 10 seats, but it is known as having the best sushi service in the world, and the owner and chef is called Jiro Ono, who is over 80 years old, and is the oldest Michelin-rated chef in the world, known as the "God of Sushi". (It is said that **** Jinsan also entertained ****** here)
The sushi restaurant he has run for more than 50 years, and the store has always been so small, but if you want to eat, you must make a reservation half a month to a month in advance, and the prescribed meal time is only 15 minutes, and customers are not allowed to order, you can eat whatever the chef gives you, and the average consumption per person starts at 30,000 yen.
However, this sushi restaurant is not purely famous, it uses the best ingredients in Tokyo, including fish, shrimp, rice, vinegar and other ingredients, and the most testing skill is said to be the massage of these fish and shrimp, which usually takes several hours, and the temperature of all the ingredients must be the same as the body temperature of the person.
In fact, in Shakru's opinion, this sushi is nothing more than a rice ball, and then wrapped in all kinds of fish, octopus and the like, although the taste is not unpleasant, but it is far from the level that can make him spend so much money to be slaughtered. But this should be the difference in the cultural traditions of the two peoples, looking at the appearance of Nanako Matsushima and Ai Iijima in front of him from the moment they entered the house, Shakru really didn't understand.
And until he left, Shakru didn't see the legendary Ono Jiro, and he inquired with Nanako Matsushima to find out that the old man had a heart attack a few years ago, and he rarely cooked in person, and the old man had a strange temper, he didn't like to receive foreigners very much, whether it was black or white, so even if he wasn't sick, he probably wouldn't show up now, and now he was replaced by his eldest son, and his skills were also very exquisite.
Although Shakru has been to Japan many times, but has never been to Mount Fuji, in fact, to Japan to see Mount Fuji is the same as foreigners to Beijing to see the Great Wall Forbidden City, Mount Fuji is the highest peak in Japan, but also the "sacred mountain" of the Japanese nation, it is about 3,700 meters high, or one of the largest active volcanoes in the world. It is located in Shizuoka Prefecture, about 80 kilometers southwest of downtown Tokyo, and not far south of Suruga Bay on the Izu Peninsula, which is designated by the Japanese government as Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park.
Shaklu's itinerary today is to drive to see the mountain lake first, have lunch there and then go to the 5th station (the 5th station means halfway up the mountain, because it is winter at this time, the snow covers the mountain, so you can't reach the top of the mountain), and then go to Fuji-Q (in fact, it is a playground), and finally go back to the mountain lake in the evening to soak in the hot springs.
Yamako is actually one of the many lakes on the northwest side of Mt. Fuji, so there is nothing to do here, and it is said that you can visit Oshino Hakkai in the summer. It's a bluffing name, but Hakkai is a series of small ponds that melt snow from Mt. Fuji, and the water flow is relatively clear. Oshino is the name of a local village, the buildings in this village are all in ancient Japan, there are no modern facilities in the village, and the ancient customs are still maintained, they are scattered among these small ponds, with green trees, grass, flowers, the scenery is still relatively beautiful.
But now it's winter, there are no trees or flowers, just a large white snow. When they came down from the highway and drove to Yamako via Lake Kawaguchi, they passed by this famous scenic spot in Japan, and Nanako Matsushima also asked Nako Shakuru if she wanted to go in and have a look, and in the end she just looked at the village from a distance in the car, but the main thing is that there is really nothing to see in this season.
The snow on Mt. Fuji is not small, but it is probably because it is so close to the coast, and the sea breeze brings a lot of snowfall, and from the moment you get off the highway, there is snow on both sides of the road, and you can cover the parked cars in thick places. Although the snow was heavy, the temperature was not particularly low, and there was no sign of freezing in the small rivers and streams that passed by, which made Shakru understand a question that has been bothering him for many years: Why do Japanese women run around the streets bare-legged and wearing slippers in winter when watching Japanese movies, aren't they cold? It doesn't seem to be very cold. After driving for more than half an hour, they finally arrived at the first destination of their journey, the hot spring inn.
"This is the hotel?" Looking at the house built in front of him in the middle of the hill in the woods, Shakru was a little puzzled, this house is called a small villa and it is okay, there is neither a signboard nor an obvious commercial atmosphere, hidden in such a desolate place, if it is a hotel, who can find it?
"This is a relatively high-end hot spring hotel, and a room will receive a group of guests, because the hot spring water is only such a small piece, and there are many guests who can't soak it." Nanako Matsushima explained. (To be continued.) )