Chapter 135: Interlude - Yokohama Adventure (2)
During the day, Tokyo's Ikebukuro Ward is still bustling with activity, and all kinds of white-collar workers walk along the streets, driving the crowds around them to walk quickly, which is probably the fast-paced life in Japan.
Sima Qiudao strolled through the streets, and his leisurely figure was so out of place with the pedestrians around him, which attracted people's attention. But after all, this is just a difference in everyone's attitude towards life, and there is nothing to attract attention, so at most, it will be over by looking at it twice.
Sima Qiudao raised his hand and beckoned a taxi, and set off for Shibuya Station in Tokyo, where he planned to visit Yokohama's Chinatown, where he would buy something not commonly found in Japanese stores.
During the day, the traffic in Japan is not as good as at night, and the traffic jam is serious, and it takes half a day to come to Shibuya Station. Sima Qiudao got off the train and paid the fare, went to the counter and bought a discounted train ticket that included the Chinatown package, and waited a short time to get permission to board the Tokyu Toyoko Line from Shibuya, Tokyo to Yokohama.
Of course, you can also take the Japanese high-speed train, which is the Shinkansen, but if you want to think of Chinatown, you must transfer to the subway halfway, and it is not as convenient as the Tokyu Toyoko Line. Sima Qiudao originally planned to take the Shinkansen, but later he specially checked the information and learned that there was a private railway Tokyu Toyoko Line with a direct one-stop discount and a discount.
The Shinkansen is Japan's high-speed rail passenger dedicated system, which opened to traffic on October 1, 1964, and is the world's first passenger-carrying high-speed rail system. It has been in operation for many years and has never had a fatal accident due to human factors, so it is known as one of the safest high-speed railways in the world and the smoothest train in the world.
It seems that the same is true of the German ICE and the domestic bullet trains, but compared to the spacious and comfortable ICE like the first class of passenger aircraft, the domestic bullet train can only be regarded as the economy class of the passenger aircraft.
When I came to my seat, I found that there were no other passengers around, so I thought that I had not logged in or logged in at another station. Sima Qiudao casually sat in his own place.
After a while, the train started slowly, and as the speed of the train increased, the scenery outside the window changed rapidly. Sima Qiudao, who felt tired of looking at it for a while, retracted his gaze and began to close his eyes to recuperate.
In the middle, the train stopped and walked a few times one after another, and passengers began to appear around Sima Qiudao one after another. Sima Qiudao just glanced at them as they sat down, and ignored them. They all met in Pingshui, there was nothing to care about, and they all maintained a basic reserve, deliberately distancing themselves from each other to avoid contact and disturbances.
More than forty minutes passed quickly, and Yokohama Chinatown arrived. Sima Qiudao got up and nodded politely to the passengers who were still seated, and left his seat and got off the train under the latter's conscious avoidance.
Get off at Yokohama Chinatown Station on the Tokyu Toyoko Line and walk to it.
Yokohama Chinatown is a well-known tourist attraction, and although there are not many people on the train, after getting off the train, especially on foot, a large number of people gradually gather around, not to mention the shoulder to shoulder.
Well, it is estimated that most of the people who come here go to Chinese food.
"Chinatown"
Standing under the huge archway carved with Chinese characteristics in Chinatown, Sima Qiudao's heart suddenly swelled with an inexplicable sense of intimacy, although he had adapted to the transformation of the identity of the new time and space, but the trace of attachment in the depths of his soul could not be changed.
Taking a deep breath to soothe his mood, Sima Qiu walked towards Chinatown.
Chinatown is lined with a variety of shops, all with names written in Chinese and Japanese, and the items sold are Chinese specialties and traditional snacks. Of course, there are also things that are almost never seen in China again, but there are some traditional things that can be seen here.
Sima Qiudao browsed around curiously, and when he saw something he liked, he would pay for it, anyway, he was not short of money now. It seems that it has switched to vacation mode.
I will try familiar snacks when I encounter them, but except for some newly opened stores that can still maintain the original Chinese flavor, the taste of other old Japanese restaurants has changed to be more suitable for Japanese tastes, which makes Sima Qiudao, who wants to eat the original flavor, frown.
However, the taste of the Japanese is generally similar to that of northern China, and it is stronger than the taste of the United States. As a northerner, Sima Qiudao felt that the difference was not big.
To tell the truth, some of the flavors in the south of the country, even as a northerner, are not used to eating or even not being seen at all, and many of the flavors in the south are strange and strange in the eyes of Sima Qiudao......
For example, the most famous and nonsensical dispute between the salty party and the sweet party about tofu brain, etc......
After fighting with various foods, the well-fed Sima Qiudao did not hang out, and after asking a few Chinese owners who set up shop here in Chinese, Sima Qiudao came to a special store.
This is the name of this shop that has a good reputation throughout the street.
Sima Qiudao pushed the door and walked in, and as soon as he entered the room, the smell of books came to his nose, which lifted Sima Qiudao's spirit. It doesn't have the dark, damp atmosphere of other old shops.
On the contrary, traces of careful cleaning can be seen everywhere. Sima Qiudao looked at the old but still dazzling goods on the shelves, and casually took a talisman made of tiger bones and nodded slightly. There's no denying that the material here is really good.
On the other side of the shelf, there are also tools such as compasses used by feng shui masters.
The shelves further back against the wall are filled with precious runes made of various materials, cinnabar, lead, mercury, and wood used to make magic swords. Most of the wood is very precious rosewood.
Sima Qiudao could be sure that the red sandalwood was the Tianzhu red sandalwood, which was almost extinct and only grew in a small part of India.
Of course, such a precious material, there is only a little bit of it on the surface here, just to see if there is a real Fang family destined person who can discern the treasure.
If you really like it and know the secret, there will naturally be a shopkeeper who will come out to negotiate, and it is estimated that there will be a large number of treasures and materials stored in his warehouse.
Sima Qiudao never thought that there were many good things in this humble store that he had never seen before, and he said that the items were very complete.
Sima Qiudao remembered that a few neighbors enthusiastically introduced the store with complete goods and excellent quality, but he was still a little unconvinced at that time, and felt that his words were suspected of boasting and touting. I heard that there are tea sets, books, fine cinnabar, and very good charms and refined pure lead and mercury, and the quality is trustworthy.
Other shops on the street don't have such materials for drawing talismans. Of course, the price of this much-praised shop is also the most expensive in the whole street.
Since this is the case, Sima Qiudao plans to buy more at a time this time, saving more time and delays. Anyway, after taking a full 100 million yen from the Golden Star Bank last time, I can let go of some spending. The price is not a problem, as long as the goods are good.