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Shinkansen Bullet Trains Speed through Shizuoka Station

 The Nozomi Shinkansen doesn’t stop at Shozuoka Station, the speed through like a fly by on the central rails while the Kodama and Hikari wait. Its pretty cool.

Shizuoka Station to Shinkansen Platform

 

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Walking and flying in Mishima

 

Walking around Shuzenji station in Shizuoka and riding a train to Mishima

 I had business on the north western part of Izu peninsula and decided to check the last stop of Izu-Hakone line.

Japanese convenience store clerk stops robbery with wooden kendo sword and fighting pose

Noticing that the man was wearing a ski mask and carrying a crowbar, an attentive male clerk who was working at the time quickly anticipated the man’s needs, and helpfully got the ball rolling by asking “You here for our money?”

“That’s right,” the man said, continuing their pithy yet cordial line of dialogue.

Of course, even in Japan there’s a limit to how accommodating business can be, and handing out cash to every robbery who asks for it, politely or not, isn’t something Circle K is prepared to do. So instead the clerk picked up a bokuto, or wooden training sword, that he kept handy.

“I should tell you that I’m first dan in kendo,” the clerk said as he took a fighting stance, thoughtfully informing the robber that he had progressed to the first tier of the upper certification ranks in the traditional Japanese sword-fighting discipline. At the same time the clerk hit the alarm button, and the robber, not liking his odds against a trained martial artist with police backup on the way, instead chose to flee the scene without stealing so much as a single onigiri rice ball.