Emergency post

No pictures for this post because I'm doing this on iPad. A quick update as I need to vent my failure to visit Tashirojima.

Planned to go to the cat island today, but things didn't go as planned, unfortunately. I suppose I should have taken the morning incident as a sign to not bother going at all.

I woke up at 445, made sure I left the house by 515 in order to reach the train station by 530 to catch the first train to Sendai. I forgot to bring my JR East pass and passport when I left this morning, and I only realized it when I reached the station. So I had to walk all the way back to get it. I reconsidered at first whether I should bother going today, or perhaps going later in the day, but when I saw that I could still make it, I rushed like crazy.

When I got to Sendai station, there were tremors at the station, cos of an earthquake off the coast of Iwate. The entire station was shaking, but thankfully nothing fell apart. No casualties or infrastructure breakdown reported as yet. I managed to get on the train to Ishinomaki, but then it stopped at the next station for the longest time, and finally the train conductors said that those headed to Ishinomaki should change trains to another line. So I followed the crowd, and was headed in the right direction. I managed to get on another train on another line, but it never went to Ishinomaki. Instead, it headed back towards Sendai after stopping for a long long time at Takagimachi. Turns out, the stations in between were destroyed during the 2011 tsunami, and reconstruction works are in the process, so you'd have to get off at Takagimachi to get a bus to Ishinomaki. I wouldn't have made it in time for the ferry to Tashirojima anyway so I figured I would just head back to Sendai and wander the area (again).

I read online about this pancake place and thought I might check it out, and it was great. The pancakes were delicious, they played really nice, calm, cafeish French music. It was really nice. So I sat there and read for a bit. Photos in a later post.

I'm going to attempt to go to the cat island again tomorrow, and if it doesn't work, I guess I'm really just not meant to go. Sigh. I really should stop being so stubborn.