Story of the Japan Adventure

Korakuen is beautiful, but Okayama-jo was closed (again) for a private event and the Okayama Prefecture Museum of Arts had loaned out it's Sessho paintings so we were not able to see them. Nanak (the Indian restaurant mentioned in the Rough Guide) is gone, but we stumbled into Il Gondola, which had excellent sandwiches and savory shakes.

None of the many, many CD/DVD stores has BOA's "Duvet" song that we heard on the soundtrack to "Serial Experiments: Lain" (Anime). Special order is what they say. There is some young j-pop artist calling herself Boa, but we think that is not the same artist.