Free trip to Nagoya

At the beginning of the summer, Ayako entered a radio show contest by writing about what kind of trip she would do with some prize money if she won. Her essay was one of the six chosen, so she won a ¥10,000 ($120 CAD) gift certificate from a travel agency. With the money, we got a free hotel room in the centre of Nagoya for a night.

During the 2 days in Nagoya, we looked around at some areas we thought we might like to move to next year. In the evening, we could do a bit of shopping and also got to enjoy a Nagoya special dish of pork cutlet with miso sauce on top:

Since we were staying overnight on a weekday, the hotel (Princess Garden Hotel) bumped us up to a fancier room. The hotel was very nice, especially since the usual cost of staying there is not so high and it's in the centre of the shopping district of Nagoya (Sakae). We definitely recommend staying there if you visit Nagoya.