We moved from Shanghai to Wuhan 2010/8/11 
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In the morning, 8/11/2010, the friend's son and I had viking-style food for 15 yuan (= x12.5 yen) in the restaurant attached to the Hotel. Afterwards, we used a taxi to visit the PC shop where we had shopped the day before. There, I had my notebook's coin battery exchanged for a new one. We then had lunch at a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant. We further went by taxi to the Shanghai Hongqiao station to ride a superexpress, "
", to Wuhan. Many trains now spread all over China.
The friend's daughter met us at the Hankou station in Wuhan. It was a ten-year-later reunionm but she was the same girl and as smart, though a little taller, as I saw a decade ago. Going out of the station, I saw many men and women asking us to take their taxis or hotels. She didn't look at them, walking quickly to a broad street to pick a taxi. The hotel was near the corporation building she works in.
A huge number of people sat in the waiting room of the Shanghai Hongqiao station:
In the above photo, the other half is not seen behind me. I have never seen such a big waiting room.
The illuminated sign above the boarding gate, showing our train's departure time:
A scene from the superexpress, showing apartment buildings:
A lady conductor (below) and lady professionals frequently move aound to pick up garbage:
I talked by gestures with a man standing on the fllor between two neighboring cars.
He and his wife had no-seat tickets. But she sat in a seat in the first-class car.
He laughed, saying "I am a third-class man". He intended to keep sitting in a unoccupied seat
till the owner came back.
The first-class car's capacity was 50 passengers, while the second-class car that I rode had a capacity of 100 as shown below:
An illuminated sign above the platform we walked on, "Hankou station welcomes you":
The front nose of the superexpress "" that we rode:
In the following morning, 8/12/2010, from the hotel room I saw a topless man running in a yard. The room had been reserved by the daughter. it was hot outside, seemingly over 30 edgrees C:
She invited her brother and me to a lunch at a nearby restaurant during her noon recess. Afterwards, he ran in the hot streets to find a bank that allowed a monetary exchange from yen to yuan. I very much appreciated his hard work.
Reunion with a friend and his familiy after 10 years
(1) 8/ 9/2010: Leaving Tokyo Narita to Shanghai
(2) 8/10/2010: Visiting small-eating streets and Shanghai EXPO
(3) 8/11/2010: From Shanghai to Wuhan
(4) 8/12/2010: Sightseeing in Wuhan
(5) 8/13/2010: Reunion with a friend and his family in Xiangfan (1/2)
(6) 8/14/2010: Reunion with a friend and his family in Xiangfan (2/2)
(7) 8/15/2010: Return from Xiangfan to Yokohama