teddy`s beach bar

Now I remember why I gained so much weight while living in Tsuruoka! The food is delicious, the beer is refreshing, the sake is locally produced and is so smooth, and the dinner conversation is fabulous! Nicole and I have eaten way too much this week ... I feel like I have the gout, I swear. Yesterday (after checking out of the onsen), we strolled down to the beach to hang out at my friend Shu`s beach bar. He is an authentic Japanese rockabilly and so his bar is absolutely the coolest. There we were ... playing darts in a shack on the beach, listening to rockabilly music. It was just so neat! Shu made Nicole a tasty cocktail with all kinds of fruit juice and I had an ice cold beer. Saori and Yousuke joined us (friends of Shu`s from Yamagata city) and then Shu made yaki soba, right there on the beach. Wow. It was so delicious! After that, we played another game of darts, drank ice coffee, then went for a stroll down to the water`s edge. The water was nice and warm, the sky clear and blue, and we could even see Mt. Chokai domineering the view up north. It was incredible.