Adventures in Shimane and Tottori Wednesday, 20 October 2010
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My wristwatch showed 1:14 pm. We were at a restaurant inside Matsue station building waiting for my cold noodle and Tawil’s hot soup noodle to be served. Twenty minutes had passed and the train to Nima would depart within 7 minutes. I was getting impatient and asked whether we could have a take-out order instead of having our lunch there. “Sorry, we don’t have such service”, replied the waitress. At last, two minutes later our noodles arrived! While she was staring at us, I finished my lunch in less than one minute, went to the cashier and paid both mine and Tawil’s, then we ran to the ticket machine, which was about 50 meters away, passed the ticket to the gate keeper, climbed up the stairs to the platform and got into the train 10 seconds before the door closed. We made it on time! Otherwise, we had to wait for another train in one hour.
