Oichi

It's 4 pm local time and I'm having a short break at a small restaurant on the busy street leading to togetsu kyo bridge. I'm having a amitzu with matcha ice cream, it's delicious as the Japanese say "oichi". and I'm sitting on the tatami, the traditional way hardly ever used today, or maybe in retreated places. In any case not at my host families in Tokyo or Kyoto, we sit in the western way simply on chairs ;-)