Enjoyed every minute of our trip to Niigata and due to the fact that Yuuko, Nobu and Yuuko's family were the perfect hosts. They fully went out of their way to do everything for us which made us feel soooo bad. But, we had an awesome time! Yuuko if you are reading this, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR EVERYTHING!! 
As soon as we arrived on the first day we went shopping at Bandai City and Next 21, and later after Nobu and Yuuko finished work they picked us up from the hotel and whisked us away to the tallest building in Niigata where we enjoyed the beautiful night view of the city and and the ocean. We thought we were going to eat dinner there, but instead they took us to nobu's favourite lil posh japanese/chinese restaurant. The food there was yummy and the atmosphere was really nice with dim lights and music playing in the background.
The next day Yuuko met us at Niigata station (to our suprise...with shinkansen tickets she bought for us!!!). The plan was to spend the day with her family. We met Mayumi, Yuuko sister at this famous ramen restaurant where we had lunch and then later went to her house/farm where we met her mum and grandparents. They were all so hospitable. Her mum took a day off work for us and her grandpa had a haircut coz we were coming lol...how cute!!! Yuuko told us her family couldn't speak english at all but they were all not too bad at all. Japanese people are really too modest!! Her mum and sister then took us to see cherry blossoms at a park and then headed up this mountain place where we visited a shrine and took a cable car up the mountain for a view of Niigata and it's hundreds of rice fields on one side and the sea on the other. On the way back to the car we stopped for mochi and konyaku which was famous there and then headed home. Yuuko's mum prepared dinner for us and then we rushed off to karaoke after, where we stayed till late. By the end of the day we dropped dead of exhaustion but it was rather an joyous and eventful day!
On our last day we went shopping again this time with Yuuko but our main intention was to buy Yuuko, Nobu and her family something, which we accomplished doing in due time and we even squeezed in a shopping spree too hehe =) The clothes in Niigata are alot nicer than the ones in our area. Bought myself jeans, a top, shorts, 2 dresses, 2 bags, a lil wallet thing, a keychain thingamagig and a necklace. And this time no complaints...I like everything I bought!! =) At 7 Nobu and Yuuko saw us off at the station. We took the 7.19 shinkasen back home to Omiya and gem decided to go all out and take the shinkasen back to Utsunomiya from there which is like 3 times the cost of a normal train ticket!!
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