Day 7 - Kobe

... i'm tired.

Breakfast - Rice, miso soup, konnyaku, fruit, hashbrown, bacon, and green tea

We had an early morning, took a bus across the world's largest suspension bridge (Akashi Kaikyo Ohashi) to Awaji-shima Island from the hotel to meet with expert panelists in the office for a couple of hours.

We had lunch in the office cafeteria which is MUCH more delicious than our own cafeteria in HK. Then we walked to our next destination to search for more data. After a couple of hours, we drove across the bridge to community centre to do some more probing and ended the day at the Sheraton for cake and tea (and another meeting) :).

N and I said goodbye to M (our new dear friend) and rode the bus back to Sannomiya for a little bit of shopping (N bought a beautiful dress!), and tonkatsu dinner at Katsukura! :) This was another one of my favourite restaurants that I used to go to in Shinjuku. I was so happy to share this restaurant with her because of its unique ritual and absolutely amazing tonkatsu! :)

We were both mentally and physically drained that we decided to head back to our hotel. We have a big day tomorrow -- Kyoto!