We checked out of our Hotel by 8.15 in order to get a bullet train to Tokyo. This was a very fast train travelling at 250 kmh. This took around 1hr 45mins, then onto a smaller train to Isawa .After the 4hr journey we arrived at Isawa station to be met by Sakuma and taken to his families koi farm.
As always we were welcomed by his mother and brother with lots of snacks and drink after a long journey. We selected out a few boxes of mixed koi. There were also some very rare koi, Tancho Kujaku and Koromo Showa. I also brought a very special two year old 4-step Kujaku which had won its class at a local koi show. After 3 1/2 hours we then had to travel back to Tokyo (another 3 hr jouney catching two trains) to our last hotel near Narita airport, ready for our early fight of 12hrs back to the U.K.
