Meeting Kuze-san, the Kubos and Carshop Friend.

The main post can be found here : Journey to Carshop Friend.

But this I wanted to go more into detail as Kuze-san and Kubo-san have helped me so much and have met with me as much as possible.

I met with Kuze-san on Facebook and when I planned to go to the 30th Leopard meeting, he said he was going to meet me there. We were to exchange gifts then.

The night I arrived in Akihabara, he contacted me saying that he was unable to go to the meeting. I told him I would be back in Tokyo towards the end of my trip and it would be great to meet him. I also told him to tell Mr. Kanazawa I wanted to visit Carshop Friend that time too.

He asked me what I was doing tomorrow and I said nothing, he said he can meet me and take me there. So that is what happened.

Kuze-san and the Kubos arrived at the place we were staying at. We exchanged gifts and Jasmin said she wanted to explore and go shopping in Akihabara, so we split up before getting to the JR station.

He brought the Kubo family as well. We had a good conversation on the train there, but we also had lunch at one of the JR stations we stopped at.

I also met Mr. Kanazawa that day. He is the owner of Carshop Friend, the Nissan Leopard Specialty shop. Going to his shop and meeting him was something that many of us true leopard enthusiasts set as a goal.

This was important to me on many levels, but I also made good friends!