I took this picture.

Take a break from the madness. Breathe in. Breathe out. Repeat after me: snow train. Snow train.

A private New Year’s Day performance by the 77-year-old proprietor of a small ryokan in Minakami, apparently included in the 1000 yen we just paid for higaeri onsen. We did not get to pick the tune, but it is quickly becoming a mood. Still. There is still this.

Oh my friends, if you happen to come across an empty bottle of hard liquor in the corner of a bathroom stall on what happens to be your sobriety birthday, and are immediately reminded of your most glorious drinking days, then it is probably a very, very good thing you stopped. That will be all now.

The world is an ever-escalating shit show but hey look today we went over the plarail bridge 😌

I have somehow accumulated 19 full years of sobriety today and here is a rainbow over Fukushima from a moving train.

Seeing as we’re doing this again, the screenshot you take here is the 和製英語 word you will start using like it’s English in 2026, cause it makes more sense anyway. ご協力ありがとうございました♪

Help it’s snowing in Shibuya and I can’t find the Hanzomon Line 😱

Not to mention the line to get in…

how time does fly

The image we’ve all been waiting for. It is now officially 2026 in Tokyo 🎉

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2026, wired

The image we’ve all been waiting for. It is now officially 2026 in Tokyo 🎉

happy collective claustrophobic dread

It's that time of year! Since 2020, when we all started saying "I didn't have that on my bingo board!" I have been collecting the most brain-breaking, exasperating, and otherwise unexpected news throughout the year. But this year felt kind of special, didn't it? Who could keep up? This felt right.

Senzan line heading into Sendai station on the last day of 2025, no worse for weather.

still

And then the next day, we did it all again.

Matsushima Rocks

I Love You Baby, Fukushima

Some pro-level 自由席ゲット at the Tokyo Station Jungle this morning. Fuji side of the Yamabiko. Don’t try this at home, kids. Or anywhere, anyone…

Ibaraki twilight

Ok but leave that girl from Les Mis out of your creepy pro-child abuse FB ad please and thank you.

8yo: Happy birthday mom, you’re 45! Me: Oh thanks yr so sweet 8yo (a moment later): Please unhug me now Me: K

rage in slow motion

back at Yokado for tonight’s silhouette

Flappy Christmas to all who celebrate…

not everything is horrible 🤎

ようこそ！ようこそ！誰をフォローすればいいか？？？(*☻-☻*)

Happy Merry Spacia X (旧ツイッター) Mas 😘

It’s that time again 😇 🎁

Fall in a koi pond

Winter Break Survival Log: Day 346* 8yo: Close your eyes mom I’m getting changed!! Me: OK! (awe he’s getting modest now he’s growing up so fast🥹) 8yo: Ok now open them! Me: ぇ？ 👀 8yo: (jumping on bed in birthday suit) A nudie me! A nudie me! A nudie me! A nudie me! Me: 🙄 *day 2. It is day 2.

So this is from the roof of the JR museum in Omiya today, where between the Shinkansen tracks and the local train tracks, there are all these miniature trains being operated along mini tracks by children 🥹

Jingle bells bitches

Goddess help us the train dancer child has discovered Yurakucho station and it is his new favorite spot on earth 😅

Next target for inbound tourists, edible suitcases. www.asahi.com/ajw/articles...

Asakusa being Asakusa

light in the darkness

Winter Break Survival Log: Day 72* If someone could please inform Beavis and Butthead over here that repeatedly asking Alexa what the capital of Syria is does not amount to “making her say a bad word,” that’d be great thanks 🙄 *day one. It is day one.

TeamLab Sumida River. Admission free.

Mom: You could’ve been an engineer. Me: I could’ve been a lot of things. Mom: Yeah, really. Me: 🫤🫤🫤

The next time a stranger asks me why I came to Japan I’m gonna try saying “Because over here my alcoholism is* not only accepted but celebrated,” and it will be a far more real explanation than anything else I usually contrive 😂 *was!

larger than light

traces of us

Me: I’m your biggest fan I’ll follow you until you love me 🎵 Heron: Yeah I give zero fucks about that

busy, busy, busy

fall with grace

Akiba jinja, aptly named