About an hour's train ride north of the center of Tokyo is 川口市 (Kawaguchi-shi) in 埼玉 (Saitama) prefecture. My long-time ping pong friend Hideya lives there.
Usually we play in nearby Warabi (蕨) municipal gym, but this time he took me to a small, private club in 川口 (Kawaguchi). It's a very spartan club indeed: we're talking no heat, no air-conditioning, basic floor and walls. It's in the middle of winter, so Tokyo is freezing. The thermometer read 6.8C inside as we arrived. Cold indeed.
The club is in two levels. Here is the upper floor where we played:
Here is the lower (and warmer) floor:
After playing for three hours, we only managed to warm the place up 0.4C to 7.2C!
About an hour's train ride north of the center of Tokyo is 川口市 (Kawaguchi-shi) in 埼玉 (Saitama) prefecture. My long-time ping pong friend Hideya lives there.
Usually we play in nearby Warabi (蕨) municipal gym, but this time he took me to a small, private club in 川口 (Kawaguchi). It's a very spartan club indeed: we're talking no heat, no air-conditioning, basic floor and walls. It's in the middle of winter, so Tokyo is freezing. The thermometer read 6.8C inside as we arrived. Cold indeed.
The club is in two levels. Here is the upper floor where we played:
Here is the lower (and warmer) floor:
After playing for three hours, we only managed to warm the place up 0.4C to 7.2C!
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