Ukai Toriyama Restaurant and Train Adventure

We are off on a solo adventure. Armed with the Suica rail cards Yuriko helped us purchase, we find JR Chao Line to Takao Station. Our agent prepared us well by informing us the train departed from Platform 1. 57 minutes later we transfer to another train on the Keio Line for a three-minute ride to Takaosanguchi.

A shuttle bus delivers us to Ukai Toriyama Restaurant. Being early, we tour the magnificent grounds.

Our reservation is for a private dining room.

We asked for recommendations for a premium sake. Best sake ever! It was the one in the white box.

Lunch is such an elaborate and time consuming affair we must blow off the cable car ride up the mountain to return to Tokyo for dinner with Yuriko and her husband.