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Yesterday I decided to not go to Tokyo and instead decided to go somewhere I had never heard of. A few hours and trains later I ended up in Katsuura, a small resort town halfway down the Chiba peninsula on the Pacific Ocean side. The day before was spent at school and then in my darkroom, so a day away from home and Tokyo was just what I thought I needed.
I had the entire day, a few extra bucks, my Leica, a Nikon F2, my Big Mini (for color) and 20 rolls of film. The light was good, the town was what a sea side resort town looks like in Feburary- grey and boarded up. There were few people under 50 that I saw walking around. Katsuura was a nice place to visit but one of those locations where I would not want to be placed by the JET program.

I did not really talk to anyone all day except for a nice little old lady (she said she was 70 years old) who talked for quite a while, asking if I have a girlfriend and then saying that I should find a nice Japanese girl to settle down and have 2 or 3 children with. She invited me to her place for tea, which I politely declined, but promised I would come back in the summer to see her.
For dinner I ducked into a small sushi shop which was run by another older woman, probably the same age as the first. She made me a sushi dinner and yes it was good. Conversation once more veered towards romance (not between myself and the chef), again I heard the suggestion to find a nice Japanese girl for marriage.

Maybe I will post some of the photographs here after I develop them. I still have 50 rolls of film to process so it might be a while. But yeah, Katsuura is a good day trip from Tokyo. Each month I plan to spend a day in some other place I have not gone to- thinking Choshi at the tip of Chiba or a stop on the Uchibou line is where I am headed next time.