Road reconstruction work on route 117 on my way back from Tsunan. The week before I had arranged to start renting a car on this day from a guy in Tsunan. Luckily, Tsunan wasn't as badly affected so he had business as normal, I could pick up the car which meant I could get to Tokyo to meet Helen. We had no idea when she booked the flight weeks before that she would be visiting me just after an earthquake.