Kyushu 2023 - Kagoshima Music Shop and Dinner

 

On our way back from Ibusuki, we ended up in Kagoshima JR Station in the early evening, so we had time to browse around the mall nearby. We found a music shop and I went in to looked at all my favourite musicians! Here's my number one rock band in Japan, OneOKRock. I actually prefer their older Japanese tracks. Nowadays they have gone more international, so there are more English tracks, and more pop in nature than the old raw rock music. Still, I think their lead singer has such a beautiful voice! I've been to their concert twice in my life so far. The first was just awesome, but in the second concert I felt that I'm too old now as their crowd is sooooo young!

Another band I really like is Southern All Star, specifically just the voice of the lead singer Keisuke Kuwata. Interestingly, he is actually of Korean decent instead of Japanese. But I think his voice is so darn sexy. Been listening to their songs since I was in university! I tried watching their concern on Netflix once, but the songs were just too old for me! Hahahahaha. 

A tribute to Sakamoto who passed away just around that time I was in Japan. 

And finally for dinner! Steak of course! Yay! I love it when my husband allows me to enter a steak store. Cause I know he doesn't really appreciate steak much. Where else if we went into a seafood store, we both can enjoy the fish. So I guess it's a sacrifice for him to go into a steak store with me? Looking at the price of the dish now, I am wondering why isn't everything expensive to me then? Ah, that's cause in this trip I was still working and drawing a salary! 

Above is my order. It came with a round hot stone at the side.

This one is my husband's. It has a raw egg in the middle to give you that creamy silky taste and texture of the beef slides when you tip it i yolk. 

And this is how I brown the sides of my steak up to my liking. I love the aroma that comes out of it, as well as the oil and juice of a steak. I don't know why, but I extremely love eating medium rare steak. I think the juice and oil of the meat is just so tasty! I thought to myself why I can't be a vegetarian, and steak came up as the number one reason. Which is weird cause I don't really eat it that often. On a good week, maybe once a week? But sometimes I go months without eating it.

After dinner, we wander back to our hotel and have an early night. Got lots of train transfer the next day after we checked out. Here are our tickets! We are headed to our last stop before going back to Hakata. We are going to Nagasaki!