Sorry I’ve been slacking off on the posting a bit. The past few days have been full ones and I haven’t found the time to do much writing. We traveled from Tokyo to Kobe today by shinkansen. While en route I wrote about half of a post describing our adventures with ramen. I’m not sure whether I’ll finish it tonight; we want to get up to the lounge on the 37th floor of the hotel to check out the view before it closes at 9:30. For the nonce I present the following photograph:

That’s the city of Kobe as seen from our room on the 31st floor of the Crowne Plaza hotel, and that’s a Kobe beef cheeseburger for dinner (and a pizza margherita for Tracie). As Tracie put it, “this is the reason for work.”
UPDATE: the cheeseburger was excellent.