The following morning, with sore limbs and very little sleep, I climbed on the back of Isamu's motorcycle and insisted he drop me off at the Odawara's station. There, after a short wait, I caught the Shinkansen back to Tokyo. Before leaving the inn, while having a light breakfast, I had called the airline and thanks to Oscar's generous offer of an open return ticket confirmed a flight back for that very same evening. With not much time for goodbyes and feeling guilty that Isamu had ...