a trip to Kagawa, with my old friends The other day, I went to Kagawa pref. with Nakataku, Tarui, Saimyo, we have been good friends since our highschool days. Almost all Japanese know, Kagawa is known for it's local product, "udon", which is a kind of noodle, made from flour. And Saimyo wanted to go there to eat udon around. So, just to eat udon, we had driven for 3-4 hours from Osaka to Kagawa. Oops, before start talking about a trip in Kagawa, I have to write about the way this trip starts. First, Nakataku, who is in Osaka rent a car, and picked up Tarui in Kobe. And they stayed over one night in "manga-kissa(manga cafe <--right?)". The next day, Saimyo comes to Kobe from Kyoto, then 3 of us are gathered. The last, I, in Okayama, is picked up, we got together now. Our drive to Kagawa has started now. We went through The Seto-ohashi, which connect Honshu and Shikoku island. The scenery was so beautiful. Many small islands, the ocean, ships... That was so good. Anyway, Saimyo has been to Kagawa once before, so he knew about Kagawa, and udon. He recommended "Udon-baka-ichidai", we decided to go and eat there first. But, it's almost 14:30, and we didin't eat so much, we were very hungry. And it was too far to the cheap Udon noodle shop, and then, he happened to notice there are the other good shop, "Yamashita- seimen". So we ate there. A bukkake-udon(have nothing with "bukkake" you have a thought lol, it's traditional udon food haha). I had it. I have eaten a lot of udon, but it's not like those. It was so good.(but I can't explain in detail, even in Japanese) As our appetites are filled a little, we went to the urban area, Takamatsu, which is the prefectural capital of Kagawa. On the way, as we didn't know other udon shops, we asked our each friends to get some pieces of information. And we got to know "Nakanishi-seimen" and "Uehara-seimen". Fortunately, they places in Takamatsu, so we kept going to there. After about 1 hour drive, the car get reached there. First, as Saimyo recommended, we went to "Udon-baka-ichidai". This shop has, as he told us, a great Niku-udon(udon with chopped beef), we had it. It was also good, but I like the previous udon, in Yamasita-seimen. we had plenty of udon and we have no appetite now(especially Tarui was too full). Not in our plan, there is a big park called "Ritsurin-koen", to make room in our stomach, we went there and have some walk. Not as in our minds, "ume" was full bloom. So beautiful. oooooooooooooooh no room to write all of my trip!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!