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On Wednesday nights in Nagoya there is a popular place to go for Americans called Misfits. Wednesdays in particular are popular because the bar does “Nomihodai” which roughly translates to all you can drink. The price at this bar is only 1000 yen which is about 10 American dollars. This gets you as much of any type of drink you want. It is a very popular bar with Americans living in Nagoya.

On usual nights I am told this bar is about 99% English speaking westerners who live in Nagoya and teach English (which is pretty much the only job available to westerners in the entire country). On the night we were there this was not the case because we brought along some of Hamby’s Japanese friends.

The bar was a very different place. As the owner explained, when you stand one step outside the doorway, you can say “I’m in Japan!” but when you take one step inside the bar you can say “I’m in America!” The owner himself has a very good position at one of the private schools and bought the bar to create a “little slice of home.”

The night was very fun. Nomihodai creates about what you would expect it to create, a bunch of very drunk Americans. Our Japanese friends tried to teach us many things, but the only thing I can really remember is “nandeernin” which means ridiculous, or at least I think it does. We tried to take video of them teaching us Japanese dance moves, but it was way too dark.