Shinjuku was busy busy busy

Osaka continues, with fantastic chicken nanban at Hareruya. Cap off the night with a tart mango soda and espresso cheesecake at escapé lodge

Live Sumo!

Hope y'all like Sumo, cause that's all it's gonna be for the next couple days

What a day in Arima! This onsen town's been here for centuries. Take a dip in the local gold and silver baths, and refresh with an Arima Cider.

All aboard the doggie cable car to Hozan-ji Temple!

Last day in Kyoto and time to dye at Roketsuzome! You apply wax to a material, I chose a canvas bag, and apply hot wax in any design you like. You dye it blue, then boil it in soap to remove the wax, leaving everything but your design a deep blue.

The deer in Nara were real bitey. They bit my bottom; now my bottom's big!

Enormous jellyfish earrings

Kurochiku ramen at Menya Kiyo, duck and soy sauce, dumplings and a few pieces of chashu

In Japan, the movie was titled

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This grey tanuki was castrated

Kyoto!

Interesting receptionists at this hotel

More pics of yesterday coming later, but to round out the trip to Seki: knives 😎 私は料理が大好きです Visited the Kiseki knife manufacturer and picked up their santoku knife, whetstone, and cutting boards. Kiseki makes industrial cutting equipment but are dabbling in knives known for their incredible strength

Gotta look back at @jkooza.bsky.social's curry recommendations now that I'm in Kyoto

Lovely walking path to the Seki Zenko-ji temple this morning

Substantial detour due to a cancelled bus, but made up for it with this Fish Train, (Nagaragawa Tetsudo) to Seki

Just arrived in Nagoya, hi @pitohui.org! 👋

Fujiyama was too shy and only let me peek a little

The train back up to Itō has a beautiful ocean view. Train cars with seats facing the scenery are a wonderful surprise

Kawazu 7 Waterfalls entrance

View of Kawazu from the nearby hillsides hotel and onsens

Atagawa in Spring, reminds me of the south bay

Generous portions, and I mean this sucker easily feeds two people, of amazing unagi piled on top an enormous folded egg omelette, on top of seasoned rice at Unagi Kushiyaki Izumo in Shinjuku

Spring is right around the corner

Senso-ji temple and the adjoining Asakusa shrine

A memorial to those who died in the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake and 1945 bombing of Tokyo

The Hokusai ukio-e museum in Sumida, where he lived most of his life, including an animatronic diorama of him working late in his life, living with his daughter Oei

The Kokugikan and SuMall were closed, but still a great visit

And from yesterday, the calico of Shinjuku hanging about

Straightforward but delicious shio ramen (with chashu and wonton) at Fukufukutei in Ito

Quite a view from Mt. Omuro

New kind of sand just released

I like Komeda's Coffee's little Pizza Hut lamps

A local ramen place raised the price of their marinated eggs due to the shortages a few years back. They posted signs apologizing and promised to return to the original price after it was over. They never did. I think about it every newsbreak on tariffs.

Imagining @edzitron.com watching the NVIDIA keynote like he's peeking into an active, ruptured nuclear plant core

Naming my new gaming vertical "Telefrag" or some such. "Up²Down²" "But, Thou Must" "First Person Digest"

After the bubble bursts, there will be further consolidations, mergers, and acquisitions in tech. Erode competition and prep for the next bubble.

The Super Mario 64 source code lists names for Mario's footstep sounds. The list starts off normal but becomes poetic with names like "Footsteps in the Fallen Leaves" and "More Than Anyone Else in the World". It turns out the names are actually taken from a 1994 dating simulator.

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This upcoming out of touch Thursday is gonna be good

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