I think this picture was at the Tokyo station before getting on the Shinkansen.  It turns out Makoto really likes escalators. After going on a few of them, he started pulling us toward any escalator in sight. Unfortunately, we couldn’t simply use the escalator to get to Maebara…

This morning we went to a department store with eight stories.  It just so happened to have an escalator for all eight.  Yep, we rode the escalator all the way to the restaurant on the eighth floor.