Sorry to not get out of Kengun yet, but I need to share some info about tram terminus in Kengun. It ends at Piacres covered shopping street. Back in the day, Japanese sararimans (sararimen?) would stop there to have drinks before going home. However, that culture has disappeared and so the area is changing with a number of food places and here are a couple of them.
After getting off the tram, cross the intersection and go left up the big street and on your right is Si-Sa, one of the two Okinawan restaurants I know of in town (the other is Nuchigusui, at the end of Kamitori and up the street, you can recognize it from the Orion sign)
Si-sa is a family favorite, and a couple of times we have been there, there has been some live sanshin music. Our set order is goya champuru, soki soba and taco rice and, if we are really hungry, the spare ribs. The picture is from google maps.
Going right from the tram terminus, there’s a new place for Bahn Mi, a Vietnamese sandwich that is based on a French baguette, but softer in the middle. It’s a culinary marvel and the bahn mi at Conny’s Bahn Mi really deliver. He also sells the Bahn Mi rolls if you are looking to make your own. https://www.instagram.com/connys_banhmi/
You may have noticed that I’ve outsourced the food photography to the missus, though the out of focus shots are yours truly. Conny’s is located just off the covered shopping street next to the SunLive grocery store.
We were out that way last Saturday, but he was at an event at the TKU housing plaza. There was a new restaurant selling abura soba, Menya Daisen (https://www.instagram.com/menyadaisen.2008/), with quite the line in front. I’m still not convinced by abura soba, since the best thing about Japanese noodles is the soup, but my wife had seen on instagram a place selling musubi onigiri. Unfotunately, it was closed, but the next door place had takoyaki. All three places seem ideal for getting some food and then walking straight out of the covered mall to the large park at Shimo Ezuko, about 15 minutes.
The vending machine is not related to any of the shop, but felt like I had to toss it in, it sells Kumamoto Tonsoku (pig feet)
The FFF google map is at https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit?mid=1qUH94Bac7Hr939b7_8gtvebaJZffGRsX&usp=sharing