13 November: Two more big crabs have arrived from Fukui, which we start demolishing at lunchtime - along with rice cooked with scallops - both yumeeeeee!
What's left for dinner.	Various veg & fish side dishes.
14 November: My last dinner in Japan - the table is completely full! The sashimi is scallops and chopped sardines with ginger & spring onion. Plus a few additional veg & tofu dishes, as well as left-overs from last night (most traditional dishes are meant to keep for a few days...)
15 November: In the taxi to the station, I spot this wet towel dispenser. You push (oshi) the button, to help yourself to a wet towel (oshibori), which comes out hot or cold, depending on the season.	In the JAL business class lounge at the airport, everyone is drinking draft beer at 10AM! I first eat my bento, then try some of this "cherry blossom liquer" and prawn crackers, a Nagoya speciality.
All airline food on flights departing from Nagoya used to be shit (hence my bringing bento), but the Finnair meals have improved a lot since last year. The uni-smeared prawn, especially, is a nice surprise.	There's an article about arctic foxes in a women's magazine I read on board. They are soooooo fluffy and cute (though only when it's very cold - in summertime they have short, dark fur.) I guess the bunnies won't like them much though...
We arrive at Tegel in the early evening. As we come out of the luggage hall, a tacky new shop called LSD (Love, Sex, Dreams), selling sex toys, underwear and DVDs, is bang in front of our gate, shouting "welcome to Germany!" (Well, yes, thank you...)
An afterthought: the shop is right next to the bar where you used to be able to have a drink and smoke, while waiting to pick up your friends/colleagues. Now that smoking is only allowed in closed-off smoking areas, perhaps the airport wanted to provide us with another way of spending time while waiting for our friends on delayed flights????