Nagoya (名古屋市) Science

Given the mess of having to reconstruct my travel companions back in the hotel room, we elected for an indoor activity today. So last night we placed a reservation for a train to Nagoya. Or so I thought. Turns out when I thought I booked them tomorrow (from the perspective of yesterday), it turns out I booked them for next week. It took both of us (me and the people who wanted our seats) staring at our individual reservations for over a minute before I spotted the mistake. The first booking we did to get to Osaka had the issue that we were struggling to find three seats that were actually together so I wasn't feeling great about my ability to book anything. I did however check multiple times now the reservation for our return trip and no-one has complained yet.

In Nagoya I was mad keen for the science museum again. I've been three times before, the first two times I missed out on the Planetarium because it was booked out and the last time it was spectacular. By the time we arrived there was one screening left with 100 available spots. I was desperately trying not to count the number of people ahead of us in the ticket line. But it only dropped by roughly 20 spots till we got ours. Score!

It's hard to get enough of this place. Almost nothing is in English save a few titles and the "keep off" signs. But that doesn't matter when everything is explained using pictograms like this.

And of course the planetarium delivered again. The brass vessel that looks like it would be at home in an old diving vessel delivers such a beautiful and crisp night sky. And we got front row seats this time. I can't actually decide whether being in the center is actually a good thing. The seat only goes so far back and there's always a significant amount of sky behind you.

Otherwise we take the easy life. Books trained with plenty of time to chill at a cafe. And maybe we go to bed a little bit before midnight today. As excited as my mind is to try everything, my body does not seem to quite agree that this is "relaxation and recovery yet". Especially when I sat relaxed in the Planetarium and my body went: "Sleep?! Now?!". Unfortunately the temperature is refusing to budge from travel companion melting point so we'll probably need to find something else with condensers.

P.S.: The editor has received complaints about the level of ice cream consumption on this trip and wishes to assure that nothing will be done about it, the ice cream must go on!