Last Wednesday when Neil went to Miwa Shrine for the day, I decided to start my epic quest for shoes (completion pending) by having a look around the shops in Woody Town. You might remember that Neil and I previously visited Woody Town. When I was there the first time I noticed a shoe store, and I figured it would be a good place to start my quest.
Unfortunately, this shoe store only had shoes up to size 27, which was a smidgen too small for my feet. Not wanting to waste the 300 yen each way it takes to get to Woody Town, I decided to spend the rest of the day looking around. Woody Town is a really nice place, its got lots of trees and nice paths in between the buildings. Like so.
 
I looked around the shops for a while, but eventually I got bored of the Saty Mall. I stood on the highest point I could find (A raised walkway near the station) and surveyed the horizon in all directions. In one direction, there were mountains. Hardly the most invigorating destination. In the other direction was Minami Woody Town. Minami Woody Town is the second to last train stop on the Woody Town line, and pretty close to Woody Town where I was. They cost the same amount of yen to reach from Sanda. With a goal that was perfectly achievable I set off towards Minami Woody Town.
I got to Minami Woody Town, and found some interesting shops, there was a Midori, and a supermarket, and a 100 yen shop. I also found the Woody Town branch of Nova, which only teaches Kids, and is only open two days a week. I eventually found myself at the train station without very much to show for my day, so I walked through the train station and onto the other side of the tracks, where I found some sort of crazy railway memorial park.
There was an old steam engine sitting in the middle of the park (My photos didnt come out very well), with a bunch of kids playing in it. There was some sort of lake/reservoir, a monument at the top of a big hill, and an old guy playing a cross between croquet and golf with himself.
 
(Golf/Croquet Man)
(Lake/Reservoir)
(Monument Hill and view from the top of the hill, much bigger and much steeper than it looks)
I walked around the park for a while, it was a really nice place. Just to show how far I went heres a (slightly) zoomed in photo of Saty Mall. Its not too far, took maybe 20 minutes to walk.
 So after all that, I decided to head back to the train station to come back to Sanda. As I was buying my tickets there was an American there trying to work out the train map above the ticket machines. He asked me how to get to Takarazuka, which is on a totally different train map. I told him as much and offered to show him where to get on the right train line (which is in Sanda). Turns out he got in from Philadelphia late the previous night and is a music teacher doing a series of one off lessons in Japan for just over a week. It was nice speaking English to someone outside of the few people I talk to every day.
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