This interesting museum is totally free to visit. There are buses from the Hamamatsu Station that drop you off about a 15 minute walk from this museum. The museum opens at 9 am.
This is what it looks like as you walk toward it.
Even the drink machines have an airplane theme.
Outside the building are several planes.
I visited here with friends in 2018, but some of the displays had changed since then and as it was a weekend then, it was much more crowded at that time. This time (a week day) it wasn't at all crowded. First stop was the flight simulator.
After that, we got tickets for the next movie time in the dome theater. While waiting for the movie time, we walked around the different displays.
This old plane was especially interesting.
There were other flight simulators.
And this display of a plane that would be comfortable to ride in.
In the display hangar are past fighter planes, Blue Impulse planes, and rescue helicoptors.
This is looking down on the flight simulator plane.
There is a large Brazilian population in the Hamamatsu area, so signage is in Japanese and Portuguese.
I was especially interested in the Blue Impulse display, after having seen them fly in an airshow in 2018.
This English speaking volunteer is a retired Blue Impulse pilot.
This is a great place to visit in Hamamatsu!
On my recent trip to Hamamatsu, I stayed at the Kitanoniwa The Kuretakeso Hotel. In the afternoon, they have a free drink and snacks in their dining room. I had a draft beer with some Japanese snacks.
One of the famous foods in Hamamatsu is unagi, so that is what I ate for dinner at Unagi Yaotoku Honten restaurant near the hotel.
The hotel had a nice breakfast buffet, but I didn't take any photos.
I ate lunch at a small restaurant near Hamamatsu Castle. You choose what you want from the window and the waiter brings soup and rice. It was very inexpensive. I would definitely eat here again.
Now I'm waiting for cool weather so I can wear it.
Sometimes, I am entertained by things that happen in Japan. Other times, I am the entertainment. Maybe this grocery shopping trip was both.
I entered the store behind an elderly woman and we both walked toward the carts, but she didn't see me at first. She pulled out one cart and took the second cart. I took her rejected cart and it surprised her. There was nothing I could see that was wrong with the cart she rejected and I took it.
I nodded at her and moved on to the fruit, with her following me. I picked up a very small container of blueberries that cost 398 yen. She looked at me, then looked at the price sign, then looked at me again. I said "Oishii to takai desu" (delicious and expensive). She nodded.
She didn't put anything into her cart but continued following me and watching what I put in mine. I chose some sushi in a little container, and she said "Sushi o tabemasu ka?" (You eat sushi?) I said "Hai, daisuke desu." (Yes, I love it.) She said "Honto ni?" (really?)
She then followed me to the tofu, still with nothing in her cart. I don't have a favorite brand and just picked one with two smaller cartons. She looked at me kind of sideways and made a little pointing gesture to a different one that was about the same price as the one I picked, so I changed.
At this point, another elderly woman came up (with nothing in her cart) and they started talking so I moved on quickly, kind of laughing to myself.
Japanese Pattern 9
Christmas Treasures Afghan progress
Huck Weaving practice from Stitch Group
Kimono remake progress - The cuffs are now attached and the pockets made, but not yet attached.
One stitcher finished several projects and brought them to show.
Mola
Drawn thread and chicken scratch
Candlewicking
We started a new Huck Weaving project. The small piece we worked on was practice. They will choose their own pattern for the next Huck Weaving piece.
Here are the results of our stitching session. They all caught on and did very well. They will continue working on these and be thinking of their patterns for the next Huck Weaving pieces.
Tea Time
I made a few more hand towels.
