Day 4 – Recovery day & Training with Senou Sensei

Today we had planned to pay a visit to the town of Kamakura and training with Senou Sensei, but we were so tired that we slept very long and didn’t get up until noon. Thanks to that however I’m feeling a bit better and my system is beginning to adjust. We took a shower and had sushi for breakfast.

Then we headed for Suidobashi instead. There, we heared, were a couple of good martial arts shops. Well, we found two of them. In the first I bought a straigth bokken, in the second there were a lot of other nice things which we couldn’t afford, hehehe.

It’s really easy to underestimate the time you are underway in Tokyo, as we found out when we tried to make it to Duncan’s on sunday. So this time we really calculated more traveling time to get somewhere.

We left Suidobashi at around half past four to make it all the way to Kita-Matsudo. When we arrived at the station it was quarter past six. So we thought we had plenty of time to search for Senou’s dojo. We stopped by a supermarket to buy something to drink and we went straight onto the main road and looked for any markers that where advertised on the little map. We had a map with the dojo on it but apparently we still had difficulties with locating it. We went way past the street where we were suppose to turn in and ended up some two kilometers uphill in a strange parking lot and cosy Japanese homes around it.

In a spur of anger and frustration we headed back to the station.  Ofcourse still searching for the right street to take. We eventually found it pretty close by the station and we were still on time to enjoy a nice training.

Training went on until nine and one minute. We left for home at around nine twenty and got there around half past eleven. So you see, don’t underestimate the traveling time if you have to find your way. Once you know your way, it takes a little bit less, but still.

We crashed instead of eating something, but we weren’t actually hungry.