I woke around 7am to the loud noise of workmen demolishing the abandoned house next to ours. Phil came downstairs at ten. So I went upstairs and took a shower. Then the two of us walked northwest for a half hour to the Kameari train station. We first spotted a golden statue of Ryotsu Kankichi […]
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