When you spot your very first mejiro of the season, it is very important to jump up and down while squealing メジロだ、メジロだ〜 so that everyone knows you’re normal.

Kid dropped his PASMO over the weekend so now I’m chasing it through neighborhoods in Kanagawa I prefer not to be cause my first teaching job in Japan was here 2 decades ago and see they fired me for being “mentally unstable.” (A psychiatrist called my boss, yes really.)

Kawasaki colors

Digital broadcast tower photobombs impressionist painting, again.

Content Warning: a photograph of the full moon with a cellphone camera 😅

Traces of last night.

"Do you have four seasons in your country, Keir?"

Does this mean they are also canceling the Anpanman war-crimes-themed singalong?

Hey unsuspecting plum blossom, moon.

Kanhi-zakura, I think. Miura Peninsula today. Of course I didn’t bring my camera. Phone in portrait mode ✌️

shake it off

You can always tell how stressed I am by how insanely elaborate the rail setups get. This entire universe is a single circuit, so yeah, it’s been a week 😅

inside and out

Today I’m finally cleaning my shitshow of a genkan & found this medieval door clamp that we built ourselves a while back to keep the older autistic & amateur locksmith son from eloping all the time but recently that same kid walks home from school all by himself so I guess some things do get better🥹

Hey yo look whose resident TikTok train-loving Obasan just got 200 followers in 2 weeks. And only half of them are currently trying to scam me! Now I only need to find 9,800 more so I can get monetized like Sachiko…

The plums take Sensoji

This is an older video that came up in my memories but damn it is still so very relevant right now due to all the #smalldickenergy out there amirite.

Good morning Tokyo. You get a castle.

Running late this morning and my younger son’s coat is not in the genkan so I send him upstairs to find it and a few minutes later he returns holding not a winter jacket but whatever this is. Yet he was looking so pleased with himself I had to agree that this guy is pretty cool too I guess.

遊びすぎ… 私 vt.tiktok.com/ZSa5qdgbt/

still we rise

Tales from the Tokaido

here you need this

TikTok Obasan Diaries: Today a young train photo in the otaku chat group I’m working to infiltrate asked me なんさいかな (yes in ひらがな, he must be very young) & I swiftly replied that oh honey I’m an おばさんなのよ but then it turned out he was asking about my kids. Undercover internetting is hard. 😂

purple reign

Old Lady on TikTok update: I somehow awoke this morning a member of a message group that calls itself 鉄オタの集まり. This was all very exciting for me until I started scrolling and soon realized that I don’t actually speak Gen Z train otaku Japanese. But am I too old to learn? Stay tuned friends.

Winter light up at Ushijima shrine does not mess around.

winter’s kiss

little girl big mouth

remember you’re precious

Me: Hey good news I got my CT & bloodwork back & I’m not dying my neck is just fat. Everyone: OMG yay! Mom: Then how do you explain x, y, and z? Me: None of those are things. Mom: Tell the Dr yr mother says yr glands are swollen. Me: No. Go to sleep. Mom: Do u want to get a 2nd opinion? Me: …

Old Lady on TikTok update: I’ve decided to change my profile photo to one of a train so as to fit in better with my new social circle…

Hello yes sorry I know we’re not supposed to take photos inside the hospital but I just need to snap a quick one of this perfectly normal medical bill cuz see I’m American (don’t tell anyone.)

If the dominant narrative is that Germany was broke AF & humiliated from losing the most F’ed up war ever, what r they gonna say about the US in 75 yrs? Still smarting from their inability to own slaves & their 1st black president, angry white men got pushed over the edge by other ppl’s pronouns? 🤷‍♀️

Japanese TikTok-er trying to explain America right now to Nihonjin like ‘I know we don’t think it’s strange to arrest illegal foreigners cause Japan is for Japanese but how would u feel if your 100% Japanese friend got arrested just for having brown, curly hair?’ That’s what’s happening in America.

At the Tobu Museum there’s this new very popular interactive corner where 4 black rotary dial telephones are arranged in a square and each phone can call the other with a single digit number and that’s it that’s the exhibit 👵🏼👵🏼👵🏼

she knows something

How it’s going…

the layers that make us

Queenfisher

岐阜帝国やばい

Dear Mattel can u send us an autistic Barbie so we can put her by our rail setup and make her hands flap? My 8yo tries to make his Lego guys do the same train dance he does but they aren’t very flexible. U comped the “profound autism influencer moms” and they totally didn’t deserve it. Just saying.

3 views of Fuji from the Azusa Express

Tag yourself. Greetings from the Giff plain!

8yo: (gets tired of playing and goes to his room) 11yo: Tell (ninja friend) to go home. Me: No he’s my friend. We’re playing trains. Ninja: I’m (8yo)’s friend. Me: 😢 Me: Go home Ninja: No Me: K Me: Wanna play trains? Ninja: K

And Then There Were None

The feel good read of the year is finally, finally, finally here!

Snowboarder in Orange

My 8yo took this Timelapse by himself from the High Rail today, to the extent that he swatted my hand away when I tried to adjust the angle just a bit (which other ppl in the car found quite funny). He did, however, let me add a soundtrack…

hello you