After trying a few ATM's unsuccessfully, we tried one at a 7-11 and it worked!
I added a little more excitement to the trip a couple nights ago. After too many beers and who know what other drinks, I fell down some stairs. I was feeling no pain at the time, but the next morning my back was killing me. I soldiered through the day, but by the afternoon my host thought it was a good idea to go the hospital. Turns out I broke a small bone in my back. The Dr said it was pretty common with a stair fall. He prescribed some anti-inflamatory pills which I thought were pain pills. Since they were doing nothing for the pain, I went to a pharmacy and asked for something for my back by acting out back pain. They sold me the stuff in picture below and it seems to be helping a little but it may just be a placebo affect.
We took the train from Takasago to Kobe today. That was an adventure in itself but we seemed to manage OK. It also snowed most of the day. In Kobe we wandered into the bath house district, but none of my buddies wanted to shell out about 20,000 yen for a bath so we left.