Super Limited Express to Hitachi

So I caught the train to Hitachi on Monday and ate a couple of onigiri on the way.

Slowly passed out of Tokyo - every time I thought I'd seen the end of high rise apartments, there was another few in the midst of the houses. The scenery gradually became rural - passed golf courses and then greenhouses and rice paddies - in some places the paddies came right up to the houses. Very green and marshy, with hills behind. I almost thought I was in the Fraser Valley. I glimpsed the ocean and then we stopped in Hitachi.