Taima Town

We're driving along to the third (and what was supposed to be 2nd to last, but people were really starting to feel the throngs of udon and the lulls of the road and being in a car for an extended period of time), and all of a sudden Masa yells at Maddo to take a picture of the sign.

"Taima Townu!!! Taima Townu!!!" They kept repeating.

I asked what was so funny and why it needed a picture when all of a sudden Masa burst out laughing again, saying in Japanese "ah... look, Taima Shinja (or shrine)!!!"

We ended up pulling a uey (spelling? u-turn for all those non-northeasterners), and pulled into the road leading to the ginza. Masa went out and took pictures, and I did too, finally realizing why they thought this was so funny; Taima means weed in Japanese. Thus, this was weed-town, and we were visiting the weed shrine. I have a funny video of this, but I can't figure out how to post videos yet...